Author Archives: lara

I’ve added a blogroll to the site. Not, I can hear you think­ing, much in the way of news now is it? Prolly not. I’m try­ing some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. Rather than the end­less­ly grow­ing col­lec­tion of links that I see spawned by vora­cious read­ers adding every­thing inter­est­ing they find. I’m going to keep the … 

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I’m pret­ty much a paper based GTDer; I just get along bet­ter with cel­lu­lose and ink. But for those of you who pre­fer to get things done elec­tron­i­cal­ly, over at Lifehacker, Gina has a nice arti­cle on the basics of set­ting up the var­i­ous parts of a GTD sys­tem in GoogleNotebook. A sim­i­lar set­up can … 

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Once again the nag­ging ques­tions of on-line iden­ti­ty, authen­tic­i­ty, and dis­am­bigua­tion have come across my radar screen. Josh Clark over at GlobalMoxie post­ed a cou­ple of times this last week on both Spock and Wink. //engtech had a guest post on rep­u­ta­tion man­age­ment by Tim Nash ear­li­er in the month, and claimD and openID have … 

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This morn­ing I read Dan Russell’s series of essays on sense­mak­ing. Dan is a sort of meta/mega sense­mak­er. He tries to make sense of how peo­ple try to make sense of things. These essays won’t take you long to read and they aren’t hard to grasp. But you may have on of those aha moments. I … 

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I was cruis­ing the librar­i­an blogs this after­noon and came across Pam Berger’s essay on the skills that we need to learn in order to make good use of the infor­ma­tion resources on the web. In par­tic­u­lar her thought that “Hypermedia envi­ron­ment encour­age broad accu­mu­la­tion of infor­ma­tion, but not nec­es­sar­i­ly deep explo­ration.” struck a chord.  I’m looking … 

Continue read­ing “Challenges in the Webbed Information Skeins”