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The image of a robot stepping into the shoes of a human worker couldn't be more wrong. When it comes to technology's most significant applications, we are neither usurped or seduced - because the systems involved are nothing like us in either their function or faculties. As a species, we are not in competition with information technology at all: we are, rather, busily adapting the fabric of our world into something machines can comprehend.

Engineering serendipity - a process model for the unexpected

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project fielded a nationally representative phone survey about the social and civic lives of SNS users and reported the findings in June 2011 in a report entitled "Social networking sites and our lives."1 During the phone survey, 269 of 877 original respondents who were Facebook users gave us permission to access data on their use of Facebook so that it could be matched with their survey responses. We partnered with Facebook to match individual responses from the survey with profile information and computer logs of how those same people used Facebook services over a one-month period in November 2010 that overlapped when the survey was in the field.

New Scientist article on 'Knowledge Engines'. Provides further confusion between definitions of information and knowledge. Wolfram Alpha revealed as Apple's SIRI answer engine. 

The best stories become etched on our hearts, igniting information and giving it the ability to withstand the test of time. Duarte melds the power of story with striking visuals to turn ideas into powerful presentations that help you activate your audience, and leave them forever transformed.

the Diigo team aims to evolve Diigo into the best personal knowledge management system (PKM) on the market, providing unsurpassed capabilities for the collection, compilation, organization, digestion, presentation and collaboration of knowledge and information.

Systems of insight are the business discipline and technology to harness insights and turn data into action.

Many companies are seeing that the future of deep learning is here, and that it doesn't require a lot of money or resources to take advantage of this new industrial science. IBM's Watson Analytics offers a freemium service that allows you to upload up to 500MB, and enables you to explore your own real-life applications for deep learning. Inputting Google Adwords or other sales metrics into this tool can help even startup companies find relational and predictive information in their data.

Worth downloading and reading this paper. One abstract: "The ultimate goal is to enable data scientists,business analysts and other users "to extract the most information they can out of data as quickly as possible....For the business, we need answers now. The market is fixing the pace, so we have to give the best answer we can at the right time."

"For more information about this site and contents, please contact Margaret Demian at the NHSi"

"Thought provoking atricle in summary: "Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.""

"This comes from Jenny Ambrozec, from the US, who some of you met at the March conference. For more information contact Jenny directly at Jenny@sageway.com "

"Information and updates about the KIN/IKON research project"

"Use this simple tool to send out surveys and gather information across your Network. Laurence Lock-Lee who presented at a recent KIN Workshop is happy to help with any questions if you get stuck! llocklee@optimice.com.au"

" This website contains links to a fantastic amount of information on SNA ranging from journals, research, further URLs to job announcements"

"Information networking is social too"

"Informal networks and the making of marketplaces"

""creative conversations don't happen because of a CEO mandate or a task force charter. A 2005 MIT study found that 80 percent of the breakthrough innovations in products and services did not occur in formal situations or R&D. Rather, dynamic innovation was almost always the result of informal (even chance) encounters"."