Building my own personal knowlege manager has been quite a journey. Over the last couple years I’ve taken a “piece meal” approach and slowly built up the features of my system one component at a time. One major feature that has always been on my mind is data portability. Last week I wrote an article on how to sync your digial scrapbook between multiple computers and even sync to your wiki. This feature had me thinking about how I could take portability to the next level.
Begin able to access your personal information/knowledge from multiple places is the ultimate realization of total information ubiquity. Being able to access all of your personal bookmarks, notes, contact information, journal entries, and research data from any computer is obviously useful. Being able to access all of your personal knowledge from a handheld device like an iPhone is absolutely exciting! Without sounding totally nostalgic, this type of portability is in a large part a modern-day realization of what Vannevar Bush had envisioned in his article on the Memex (”As We May Think”).
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I had originally planned on calling this article ‘How to Use Cloud Computing to Synchronize Your Digital Scrapbook For Research and Integrate Into Your Personal Knowledge Management Wiki for Extra Credit’
I’ve discovered a number of interesting applications that help people efficiently organize information. There certainly is no shortage of solutions for this problem domain. Many tools exist that offer the ability to discover, save, organize, search, and retrieve information.
Last year I picked up a copy of The Integral Vision by Ken Wilber. I recently decided to re-read the book, and created a comprehensive book summary highlighting the key pieces of information in the book. The book summary is presented in the form of mind maps for each chapter.
Since 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.
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RT @novaspivack: The Evolutionary Manifesto — human evolution goes intentional - Interesting read http://bit.ly/4GDmJ [ericblue]
Published Weekly Lifestream for February 25th.
Shared CreativePro Office.
RT @integralrising: Integral Rising resource page (integral introductions, graphics, charts, diagrams, glossaries, etc.) http://bit.ly/K7S86 [ericblue]
Listening to Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland [ericblue]
Research OSS+Commercial solutions for enterprise project portfolio management [ericblue]
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Published Weekly Lifestream for February 18th.
Thinking that Self Help is sorely in need of Self Help [ericblue]
Shared Does Rosetta Stone actually work? : AskReddit.
Shared Set Up a Fully Automated Media Center - Media Centers - Lifehacker.
RT @chuckfrey:Getting awesome feedback to my question about using mind mapping to capture meeting notes, here: http://bit.ly/d0RarG #mindmap [ericblue]
‘Family …
Published Weekly Lifestream for February 11th.
All dressed up on my way to my wife’s jobs launch party in Santa Monica… Red carpet… Possible celebs. Only in Cali! [ericblue]
Red carpet http://tweetphoto.com/11094839 [ericblue]
Holy party … 200+ people [ericblue]
Longest I’ve slept in in years….. good thing I’m off today [ericblue]
RT @flowingdata: "The work you do …
Since I posted my article last month on How To Create Your Own Personal Document Viewer, I’ve had a few inquiries on how people could have a similar setup themselves. I thought it might be helpful to .zip up the docbrowser project and show some of the code that does the conversions using the utilities I illustrated in the article. Disclaimer: This code is by no means my finest work (it was hacked together on a Sat. afternoon), but it gets the job done. At a high-level the code is …
Published Weekly Lifestream for February 4th.
Great… just got more SPAM from Bill Harris (he must be branching out) "Secrets for losing stubborn stomach fat" [ericblue]
Apparently there are some Secret universal laws on how to attract six-pack abs [ericblue]
RT @adamsicinski: 6 Traits that Separate Winners from Whiners ~ http://ow.ly/140xA [ericblue]
Fring is getting good [ericblue]
Shared Really …
Published Weekly Lifestream for January 28th.
Shared The Easiest Way to Build your First iPhone App | Nettuts+.
RT @EmergentCulture: RT Ever wonder what the hell (lol) the differences are in the christian denominations? http://bit.ly/6amMS2 [ericblue]
Shared The Scale of the Universe.
Shared Planets.
RT @philosophytweet: Beware the barrenness of a busy life.-Socrates [ericblue]
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Published Weekly Lifestream for January 21st.
RT @GeorgeDvorsky RT @xenijardin:America now recognizes corporations as people but we sneer @ ethical vegans who believe animals have rights [ericblue]
If we now recognize corporations as people, are we ok that many are classified as psycho/sociopaths? http://tinyurl.com/n2aso [ericblue]
Absolutely amazing origami - single sheet of paper - http://www.picm.co.tv/2010/01/single-sheet-of-paper.html [ericblue]
Shared How wireframing makes your website designs better.
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This week I stumbled across two similar sites that provide some pleasant auditory distraction through a simple web interface.
The first site SimplyNoise offers up some white, brown, and pink noise to help drown out distractions. And the second site RainyMood plays a gentle 30-minute loop of rain to help you relax and wash your stress away.
Ever since I started using Twitter, I think it’s safe to say that my blog posts (and even my own consumption of other RSS feeds) has slightly decreased. Now, that’s not to say that I don’t have some stellar upcoming posts planned but the frequency has been less.
To sort of ‘fill in the gaps’ I thought it might be interesting to supplement my usual monthly posts with my weekly LifeStream updates (del.icio.us saves, twitter updates, etc.).
Now the question…. Do you find these weekly posts useful?
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