Posts in: Information management
- Review: The online mind map smackdown
- Mind mapping may just be the next wave of online applications. Advanced JavaScript libraries and Flash are enabling web-based mind map applications that are almost as robust as their off-line counterparts (such as Freemind). [2 Jul 2007]
- Is Google evil?
- It owns online search. It almost owns online contextual advertising. It offers ass-kickingly good web-based e-mail and other online applications. And now, Google wants to organize your life. From the Financial Times article: Google’s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can [...] [23 May 2007]
- Video of the day: Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
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- Better e-mail writing
- UPDATED TO ADD A LINK: It’s all about me: Why e-mails are so easily misunderstood E-mail is a wonderful tool when used effectively. But it can be a maddening experience when it is not. Here are some tips to help ensure that you aren’t driving your friends and co-workers batty with your messages. Write a descriptive subject [...] [15 May 2006]
- Top 1000 Public schools: Newsweek misses an opportunity
- The magazine released its list of the Top 1,000 Public Schools in America. The complete list is available online. But as I was scrolling through the list, I wondered “How many of these schools are in Georgia?” The answer? I don’t know because I stopped looking after the third page. Now what could Newsweek have [...] [3 May 2006]
- Structured blogging
- I mentioned this briefly in the Atlanta PHP May meeting post. Structured blogging is an intiative to provide a standard format for blogging about particular forms of content. The idea is to make it easier to share particular bits of microcontent by publishing it in a consistent form. The Structured Blogging team has developed plugins for [...] [1 May 2006]
- A random round-up of groovy things
- Via Molly: A study on gender differences and biases in design. Google now offers fill-in-the-blank style wildcard searching. Via Lifehacker: An Information Week piece on wikis in the workplace. I personally love wikis as a knowledge management tool. I pushed for one at work and found it to be a valuable tool for managing my own [...] [10 Aug 2005]
- Is tagging the Next Big Thing?
- Thoughts on where tagging and folksonomy might take us: There’s a good reason Yahoo is taking tagging seriously. The trend represents a new approach to organizing and finding information online, and industry watchers expect it to draw people away from the traditional Net search offered by Yahoo and Google Inc. Tagging won’t replace Google et [...] [6 Apr 2005]
