Commissioning Editor November 28, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Action Research, Wiki , trackbacklast night I had dreadful journey across London with trains disrupted and buses too full to board, forcing me to do what Londoners often do after work in the early evening, spend a couple of hours in the pub before going home. I know, it’s a terrible burden and it meant I couldn’t do any work on the report I’m supposed to be finishing but never mind, there’s a fortnight of imitating the 14 day thesis to look forward to. Two pieces of good news though. The first response to my online pilot exhibition has appeared there, and I couldn’t wish for a better start. Now to test my theory that nobody much wanted to be the first to comment - come on the rest of you, there’s no excuse now.
The second piece of good news is a positive result from my initiative to commission a series of articles for publication on the cider wiki. The ukcider community of practice and newly created wiki were the subject of my first piece of Distributed Action Research last year. One of our small scale commercial cidermakers is a naturally talented writer whose contributions to the mailing list are a delight to read, as well as being stacked full of useful tips and insights into the country practice. I suggested that these writings deserved to be published on a dedicated blog for the business, but that didn’t appeal so instead I’ve obtained agreement to sift through the archives, past present and future, and edit them into a feature article, or series. What a delightful job for me, and I believe it will go a long way towards one of my longer term objectives which is to encourage the publication of more ’soft’ knowledge and expertise from amongst the COP onto the wiki to take it beyond the mere accumulation of hard data facts, lists, names and places.
The concept of ‘hard’ and ’soft’ knowledge is taken from “The duality of knowledge” by Hildreth and Kimble (2005)
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Commissioning Editor
[Source: DARnet] quoted: last night I had dreadful journey across London with trains disrupted and buses too full to board, forcing me to do what Londoners often do after work in the early evening, spend a couple of hours in the pub before going home…
You made mention of the dreaded and cursed “14 day thesis.”
BEWARE!!! This technique is ill advised and not reccomented for anyone who may possess a weak heart.
I taught the ancient technique of Gonzo Academia to the author of The 14 Day Thesis in an hazy mistake and that bastard has misused and abused that sacred knowledge i parleyed onto him ever since…
I love it.
Raoul Duke’s claim to be a teacher to the author may be for real, or it may be the author himself, or somebody else, or possibly even a fictional character who has escaped from inside of the thesis itself. Reality and fiction become indistinguishable in the genre, and the internet, and blogosphere are perfect platforms for such art.