RE: Knowledge is manufactured?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Dan Goldstein wrote:
 
> I said... what? The opposite? I spoke of "removing 
> organization and coherence"? Nope, that wasn't me! But what 
> Dori attributed to you was yours, all right, and it describes 
> what I do, too.

Not *that* opposite, Dan, the *other* opposite (hey, it's Friday!). 

You said "tech writers don't manufacture knowledge. We acquire it..." I
maintain that it's information we acquire, and that we transform
(manufacture) it into knowledge. 

> I *do* know some folks who tend to remove organization and 
> coherence, but they're over in Marketing...

<rimshot /> ;-) 

Richard


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Polycom, Inc.
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303-223-5111
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