I moderate comments for spams sake, but wasn’t aware it was hard to post it in the first place.

One day I should move this blog onto the posterous platform…maybe.

Really like how you talk about km like a filter…which I find RSS Readers and now Twitter.

Matt Moore, if you haven’t see it already, has a good post on KM and L&D (Patrick Lambe has a good comment)
http://innotecture.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/learning-knowledge

To extend the scoreboard/sport thing, you might like this talk on Cricket by Tassos Stevens in which he talks about the way that cricket is ‘playful’ because of the interplay between the explicit scoreboard and the reality, which is unknowable. Is it possible to tell who’s winning in cricket? No, not for the bulk of the game.

One of things I’m interested in - which is probably worth a full post in itself [note to self] - is the master narrative of Knowledge Management (and its evil twin Learning & Development].

Aside from all the techno-jargon nonsense and self-indulgent epistemological obsession, one of the ways KM distinguishes itself from L & D is with its greater ability to focus on promoting good stuff - sifting out the know-how from the bumbling know-what-but-don’t-know-why and spreading the good news. It’s a positive activity.

L & D is too often based on a deficit model. Here’s where you should be and we, the experts, will take you there. It’s too often a normative activity (and, I believe, this is where the current existential crisis in L & D stems from).

As soon as you start keeping score and warehousing ‘knowledge’, it turns into a normative/L & D-style activity. There’s the canon - digest it and become it.

PS commenting on your blog - talking of Sons of Socrates and all that - is an absolute nightmare. Can you do something about your frankly bonkers anti-spiced-pork-and-ham protection?