Archive for January, 2008
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Yet more reaction to this article:
Whittaker, Steve, and Candace Sidner. "Email Overload: Exploring Personal Information Management of Email." Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 13-18, 1996, 276-283.
From a records management POV, I had these thoughts:
People are so overwhelmed ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
As verbose as I am in class, you should read my postings on the Blackboard discussion boards. Oh wait, you can't. Oh wait, you can -- if I re-post them here.
It's not as narcissistic and self-involved as it sounds, though it's that, too. I spend goodly bits of time and ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Academic Productivity has another great post, this time on the work of Carolin Horn at the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art (a visual designer, BTW, not an information visualization specialist) and her coder Florian Jenett.
Using her Apple inbox as her petrie dish, her web page contains ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
I enjoyed reading Hal Varian's paper How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time. It succinctly describes how to build a theoretical model for how a system may work, from getting the idea, to testing it out, to improving it. It requires you to have a little ambition ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Mary Ellen Bates raves about Carrot2 in her latest InfoTip newsletter. Carrot2 clusters search results, much as Clusty.com does. Carrot2 differs in that it's using a Swiss meta search engine, etools.ch, as the basis for its initial group of search results, while Clusty uses US-based meta search engines.
Both ...
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