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Gmail is “worse than stupidity”

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAh, I’m sure that catchy title has your attention. The more in depth title is “Gmail is worse than stupidity OR Cloud computing is a trap”. Or, so says GNU founder Richard Stallman. The concept of using web-based programs like Google’s Gmail is “worse than stupidity”, according to a leading advocate of free software. Cloud…
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Tweet Tweet

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOK, so last month I blogged about the proliferation of microblogging sites like Twitter, and how I just don’t get them! I received some great feedback on the post, and decided that I probably should give Twitter a try before I totally dismiss it.

Microblogging…. I Just Don’t Get It!

Reading Time: 3 minutesYou can call this an uninformed rant if you like, but I seriously can’t comprehend all the buzz that is surrounding the “MicroBlogging phenomenon”.

Flash Slideshow Software

Reading Time: 2 minutesMost of my weekend was spent laboriously locating and consolidating my digital photo collection over the last 8 years. You would think that my nack for organization would have payed off in this area, but you’d be wrong. 😉 It took combing through 4 old hard drives, multiple Ghost images, an Iomega Peerless Drive, and…
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Document Management Systems: SCAN (Smart Content Aggregation and Navigation)

Reading Time: 3 minutesBack in March, I began evaluating some open source Document Management Systems (DMS) to help compliment my wiki-based Personal Knowledge Manager (PKM). That’s a little bit of acronym-overload. But, in simple terms I really am looking for a way to easily store, categorize, and retrieve a number of my documents related to research and learning…
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RSS Information Overload? AideRSS to the Rescue!

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne key theme that keeps popping up at me is the critical need to alleviate information overload, and find techniques that let you focus on what matters most.

Creating the Ultimate Personal Travel Journal

Reading Time: 6 minutesSince I last posted about Vannevar Bush’s vision for a Personal Memex, I decided to focus my efforts on building an impressive personal travel journal, and share the results to illustrate the capabilities of a Memex.

ThinkBase: Visual Semantic Wiki

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThanks again to del.icio.us, I discovered an amazing site today called Thinkbase. “Thinkbase is a new way to navigate and explore information on the web. It is what we call a ‘Visual Wiki’. It is based on Freebase, an open, shared database of the world’s knowledge – in other words a Semantic Wiki. Thinkbase uses…
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As We May Think: Creating Your Own Personal Memex

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe memex ( “memory extender”) is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. The memex has influenced the development of subsequential hypertext and intellect augmenting computer systems. Bush’s vision for the memex extended far beyond a mechanism…
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