24 Hours of Air Traffic Never Looked So Beautiful
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDesigner Aaron Koblin composited a day’s worth of FAA data to make some pretty fascinating (and deeply beautiful) animations. Source credit to NPR.
Outlining & Mind Mapping for the Semantic Web
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minuteThis is truly a post that blends some of my major areas of interest: mind mapping, knowledge
management, and the semantic web. Mind Raider is a unique and useful tool that brings a semantic
twist to an outliner and knowledge management application. From the Mind Raider site: MindRaider
is Semantic Web outliner. It aims to…
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Comprehensive Listing of Semantic Web and Related Tools
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m starting to dig back into the semantic web, and recently came across an uber-comprehensive list of semantic web applications on Michael Berman’s site. Michael has a total of 578 applications listed using Simile’s Exhibit.
Fifteen Last.fm Power Tweaks
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minuteFrom LifeHacker: One of the best ways to discover new music online is with Last.fm, a music
recommendation community. Last.fm serves you up new tunes based on a marriage of your unique
preferences and the rest of the huge Last.fm community. Last.fm is a pretty simple way to listen
to tunes, but there are a…
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Mind Maps as Personal Dashboards
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minutesUp until now, I’ve used mind maps for a variety of things: brainstorming, study aid, goal
setting, note taking, and product research. Recently, I’ve been exploring the idea of using mind
maps to help consolidate all of my information related to time management, task management, and
knowledge management into a single place… a personal mind…
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Historical Podcasts: A Collection of History Podcasts
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minuteI found a great new resource thanks to a comment on my post Digital Enlightenment: Using the
Internet for Research, Learning, and Education. History Podcasts: Looking for a History podcast?
history Mp3 audio? Ipod mp3 history podcasts? Welcome to the History Podcast page! On this page
you will find links to the best History Podcasts…
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Improve Reading Comprehension with a Mental Framework
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minuteJohn Wesley at Pick the Brain has posted a great article on improving your reading comprehension
with a mental framework. Reading is all about information. It’s not about the number of words you
read, but the amount of value you extract from them. The key to improved reading comprehension
isn’t moving your eyes across a…
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Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software
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minuteI just finished reading Chuck Frey‘s ebook: Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping
Software. From Chuck’s ebook website: “I’ve made it my mission to gather the best applications,
techniques and resources into one place – a definitive guide to getting the most out of mind
mapping software in business. I have talked with leading…
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The Undiscovered Self
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minuteJung on the state and religion: “All mass movements, as one might expect, slip with the greatest
ease down an inclined plane made up of large numbers. Where the many are, there is security; what
the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and
necessary, and…
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The Undiscovered Self