Phillip G. Armour discusses is the nature of people in groups. There are people (often leaders of some sort) whose behavior sets the tone for the whole group.
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Phillip G. Armour discusses is the nature of people in groups. There are people (often leaders of some sort) whose behavior sets the tone for the whole group.
Are you subject to lots of clichés? Are you a frequent user of clichés? Be careful. Phillip G Armour writes about this.
Hai Zhuge has an article on "Discovery of Knowledge Flow in Science" in the May 2006 issue of Communications of the ACM. Zhuge focuses on the scientific citation network that is a familiar topic in academic circles, but the concept applies anywhere you can find citations, such as in blogs.
Does spell-checking software need a warning label? The answer is, "yes." I've known this for a long time, but then I've also made the errors this article talks about. Based on their survey of undergraduate and graduate students, people put much more confidence in grammar- and spell-checking software than they should.
I mentioned a few weeks ago that Intellext are making their search-in-the-background tool, Watson, available for free. I used it for a while last year, and I just tested it again as I wrote that long post on the collection of PIM articles in CACM.
The latest Communications of the ACM has a great set of articles on Personal Information Management. I provide a rather detailed review of the collection, as the topic interests me greatly.
An article in CACM highlights how an expert locator is used at a software firm, highlighting some expected and some surprising uses.