Musings on Efficiency

I am researching sensemaking and knowledge management. That give me an opportunity to trip across related subject matter that could be interesting, suggestive of new opportunities and helpful to readers like your good self.

I typed in "common sense" on You Tube and found 11,400 hits. The range was between songs, comedy, comments and blogs. As you may recall, I'm a GoogleTechTalks fan so I decided to make a scan by the tech talks channel; with only 4 videos found (see below, last week).

What surprised me is not so much the low number, as that none of the four seem to have anything in common! There's quite a range. Three of the four are somewhat esoteric. I've added another link to the single tech talk on touches on sensemaking (that I mentioned last time). You can see the full set at the end of this post.

The Green brothers[2] talk is informative about the kind micro-broadcasting and the future for interactive media."Knowledge connectivity ..."[3] probably isn't what you think. However if you don't mind a little graph theory or maths, you could find it interesting to see how devices agree to trust each other. There may be lessons for social groups and networkst too -- Who knows? Dr Lenat's[4] talk on teaching computers common sense and Dr Chi's[1] about how folk on social media behave are the kind of thing I was looking for about ways the new media may work in the future and how we work now. Finally, Dr Rienhoff's[5] tale is both a heart breaker and a light of hope in a networked world.

Why mention these completely different clips, connected only by a chance coincidence of being tagged as "common sense"? Perhaps its serendipity? One of these items might mention one of your favoruite subjects ... Who knows? For myself, each story looks at an aspect of modern life, and carries with it implications for our future interactions and new ways for thinking new economics: making money.

Take a look if you have a few minutes -- Start thinking about how that item could be used to change the way things are done. Leave me a comment, I love to hear feedback.

William.

References ...

1. Chi, Ed H. (200) "Augmenting Social Cognition: From Social Foraging to Social Sensemaking", GoogleTechTalks, You Tube, 15-Feb-2007.
2. Green, Hank & Green, John (Brotherhood 2.0) (2008) Nerdfighters: Insider View from a YouTube Persona, GoogleTechTalks, You Tube, 28-Aug-2006.
3. Greve, Fabíola (2008) Knowledge Connectivity vs. Synchrony Requirements for Fault-Tolerant Agreement Problems for Consensus", GoogleTechTalks, You Tube, 18-Apr-2008. This video may not be immediately interesting, and I'm unsure if there's a wider implication. For people running interconnected applications on the internet, it is interesting news.
4. Lenat, Douglas (2006) "Computers versus Common Sense", GoogleTechTalks, You Tube, 30-May-2006.
5. Rienhoff, Hugh (2007) "My Daughter's DNA", GoogleTechTalks, 29-Nov-2007.

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