Posts Tagged ‘ online or offline ’

Doing Research Online or Offline

March 18, 2010

Before the advent of personal computers and the Wide World Web you were pretty much limited to doing research the old-fashioned way. If you were lucky enough to be near a decent library, that’s where you went. And you looked in the catalogues and then went among the shelves and found the books you needed. [...]

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Information, Knowledge, Wisdom

March 16, 2010

The famous American-born British poet, T.S. Eliot, raised an interesting question in one of his poems about this trinity: information, knowledge, wisdom. He clearly implied that the three represent a hierarchy with information being on the bottom and wisdom on the top. Let’s look at the reasoning behind this. When you are learning something, you [...]

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