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			The Ant Trail
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			ddavison
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			Fri Jan 11 2008 15:53:02 GMT-0800 (PST)
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			Fri Jan 11 2008 11:00:16 GMT-0800 (PST)														
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		<outline text="If you are using the Firefox browser, click the Firefox button in the upper right hand corner of the Grazr widget which will open in the left sidebar of the browser and make it much easier to follow links in the reading list to the browser canvas page to the right of the sidebar, and to drag and drop new links into the list or to edit and modify the list. "/>
		<outline text="This reading list contains  link urls or RSS feeds to the topics of the research. Click on the  folder below  to see the links and then click on a link to follow the Ant Trail. Let's start by opening the the first folder below"/>
		<outline text="i realized that  Daniel had adapted a concept of Russell Ackoff's diagram of the Path to Wisdom as a structure and I wanted to include in  my post  a picture of that diagram. So I used google image search of Ackoff but he search result was not useful, so I added the name of my colleague,Langdon Morris, who is a fellow at theAckoff school at the University of Pennsylvania, "/>
		<outline text="which led me to a white paper I wrote in 1999  about our continuing study of what we have called the Knowledge Channel ">
			<outline text="InnovationLabs Publications: Knowledge Channel Networks - Integrating Industry Value Chains on the Internet" type="link" url="http://www.innovationlabs.com/kcnets.html"/>
			<outline text="The image heading my blog post was lifted from our 1997 monograph The Knowledge Channel which is in eBook format and available as a digital work for online preview.  I first googled for the Ackoff diagram and realized that I could add to the search term for Acfkoff the tag Langdon Morris, which led me to the following google image results with no useful results. I then added my colleague Langdon Morris to the search term, and  to find a copy of the diagram"/>
			<outline text="InnovationLabs Publications: The Knowledge Channel - Corporate Strategies for the Internet" type="link" url="http://www.innovationlabs.com/kchannel_pub.html"/>
			<outline text="which contained the drawing shown  below from the ebook version. which links back to how Daniel was describing the pathway from infomration to knowledge to innovatiion.   I was pleased to find my diagram on this 11 year old document and that it was waiting there in ourInnovationLabs publication archives and retriveable digitally. Talk about the Long Tail....."/>
			<outline text="iUniverse Online Books - see the illustration here on page 8 from the ebook version. so I assembled the diagram and the blog post reference links and created the blog post you see below" type="link" url="http://www.iuniverse.com/lookinside/LookInside.jsp?isbn=1583482873&amp;page=16"/>

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		<outline text="Thoughts Illustrated: Here is the final result of the Ant Trail posted to my blog.  you can copy the Grazr widget,edit or augment it, share it with others using the share button" type="link" url="http://thoughts-illustrated.blogspot.com/2008/01/ddavisons-grazr-blog.html"/>
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