I remember reading a columnist in one of the Ziff-Davis mags, back in the mid-90s, lamenting the busting of the old 8.3 file-naming conventions that DOS imposed. With the new Win95 long filenames-with-spaces convention, he predicted that people would actually lose more files than find them again.
He used as an example their production process, [...]
A web site focused on collecting and managing personal information, from the U of Washington I-School, with some help from Msft. I haven’t compared their publications list with our syllabus to see if there’s any overlap.
Keeping Found Things Found
“The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the relatively small number [...]
The readings that prompted these postings were:
Lehikoinen, Juha, Antti Aaltonen, Pertti Huuskonen, and Ilkka Salminen. Personal Content Experience: Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age. Chichester, England: John Wiley, 2007. [48-51, 84-94, 127-157]
Whittaker, Steve, and Candace Sidner. “Email Overload: Exploring Personal Information Management of Email.” Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors and Computing [...]
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 when they’re in the thick [...]
Also tagged Gmail, Lotus NotesAs 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 brain energy writing my posts, [...]