move along please 26 August 07
Why would anyone read someone’s blog when they could read one of these every day? Go there instead.
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I’m sitting here writing a thinly-disguised polemic about the importance of individual fulfilment and satisfaction – the disguise is a report for MLA London about building relationships between business and cultural institutions – when ebay helpfully remind me that I need a new windscreen wiper motor for the land rover, which will soon, like Klinger’s jeep, be built entirely out of mail-ordered parts. At the bottom of the message, among the also-availables, there are people wondering whether I would like to buy some money.
Why would anyone read someone’s blog when they could read one of these every day? Go there instead.
Every single paper on the knowledge economy that I’ve read – and that’s, oh, several this week – starts with some hand-wringing about definitions and measurements. That’s because there is no unifying discipline, only a bunch of sociologists, economists, management consultants and bulgy-eyed washington world-controllers each trying to capture the exchange of human resourcefulness, knock it down and drag it back to their cave.
I don’t know what this blog is for. Based on the last few times I thought “If I’d got round to fixing up the blog I could have put that in” it will be a mixture of technical scent-marking and overwrought introspection exactly like every single other blog, but with the irregular and unofficial Lake District Run-and-Pub Guide to break the tedium. And photographs.