Posted by Yogesh Malhotra on January 29, 1998 at 00:55:57:

In Reply to: Best Practices for a Virtual Knowledge Community posted by Tom Sudman on January 28, 1998 at 18:45:24:

Tom,

Thank you for sharing the synopsis of the 'facilitators' for knowledge 'flow' on this discussion forum. There is one point that evoked my thinking since similar notions have been discussed earlier and I am still reflecting on such issues.

>A negative observation in search of a positive best practice: it would be nice to have a
>navigation tool which would allow us to know an older thread has become active
>without scrolling and reading dates.

[Another approach - if one wants to follow all the latest posts - could be following the chronological order of the posting of threads. Please note that on rare occasions, some inappropriate/duplicate postings may be found edited out of the forum. Given that what may be posted under any other thread may be relevant to many other threads (remember my last mention of 'relationships' that make 'knowledge' out of 'information'), it seems to be an interesting proposition.]

This relates to my discussion with a senior scholar who has been doing some work on defining the boundaries of knowledge for various academics disciplines. My question to him was: given the increasing interconnections [and the relevance of such interconnections for 'real world' situations] between the traditionally 'pure' disciplines, how can one really drawn any kind of boundaries between disciplines. The issue is compounded given that 'knowledge' of any issue / discipline may be just a proxy for 'ignorance' ('what we yet don't know') about it.

Similarly, drawing boundaries between any two threads may facilitate concrete observations, however, transcending those boundaries may provide one a better perspective of the 'bigger picture' and the 'relationships' between chunks of information. Within this bigger picture, the smaller elements may be defined based on one's own convenience. This is the notion of knowledge 'flow' I earlier mentioned on the forum within which the individual interacts with 'information' and constructs 'knowledge' based on the potential for action one is seeking at that time.

- Yogesh

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Follow Ups:

• Re: On Discussion Threads, Boundaries and Relationships Tom Sudman 14:19:10 1/29/98 (11)
  • Re: On Structure vs. Edge of Chaos Yogesh Malhotra 15:52:16 1/29/98 (10)
    • Re: On Structure vs. Edge of Chaos Rob Patzig 09:48:09 2/03/98 (8)
      • Re: On Structure vs. Edge of Chaos Tom Sudman 10:23:57 2/03/98 (7)
        • Re: Complexity, Complex Systems & Chaos Theory Yogesh Malhotra 01:29:16 2/04/98 (5)
          • Re: Complexity, Complex Systems & Chaos Theory paola 11:16:10 3/05/98 (0)
          • Re: Complexity, Complex Systems & Chaos Theory Tom Sudman 11:27:42 2/04/98 (3)
            • On Science: Scientific and/or Human Perspectives Yogesh Malhotra 18:49:22 2/04/98 (2)
              • Re: On Science: Scientific and/or Human Perspectives Tom Sudman 20:00:52 2/05/98 (1)
                • Re: On Dialog and Bohm (in Senge's Fifth Discipline) Yogesh Malhotra 08:52:20 2/06/98 (0)
        • Re: On Structure vs. Edge of Chaos Rob Patzig 11:32:47 2/03/98 (0)
    • Re: On Structure vs. Edge of Chaos Tom Sudman 18:06:47 1/29/98 (0)

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