facts
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Brain power
Three reasons why disinformation is so pervasive and what we can do about it
Disinformation is a plague infecting all forms of media. But efforts to control it abound, and Wikipedia is a good…
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Community
Friday essay: shaping history – why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia article
Wikipedia supposedly reflects “common knowledge” and “collective memory”. But does it?
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Brain power
Research suggests that rationality is in decline
Over the last forty years there has been a general shift away from rationality and towards emotion.
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ABCs of KM
Three types of knowledge
The concept of ‘three types of knowledge’ – systems, target, and transformation knowledge – helps produce not only knowledge about…
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Brain power
The implications of the difference between facts and knowledge
The difference between facts and knowledge is all the more reason for organisations to engage in knowledge management.
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Community
Science and hype: how overstating facts undercuts trust
There's been a remarkable shift in the language used in science abstracts. This is further confirmation that science continues to…