Reading Time: < 1 minute Wired recently featured an intriguing article titled: Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm. Piotr Wozniak, a Polish Renaissance Man of sorts, has developed an algorithm and software product to help people learn and retain knowledge at amazing levels. This software, called SuperMemo… “is based on the insight that there is…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In just a few hours I’m off to Florida for the next 5 days! I’ll be visiting my wife’s family in Tampa, then we’re heading down to the Keys on Monday. And, we’ll finish up the trip in Naples on the way back. All in all, it should be a fun time. I just recently…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute From LifeHack.Org: Education is touted as the greatest way to get ahead in this world. And, in general, it’s a great strategy. Maybe you have the perfect idea for an invention and you need a little engineering know-how, or maybe you just need to get ahead of the guy in the next cubicle over. No…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chuck Frey, prolific mind mapping blogger and author, has published his new e-book “The Mind Mapping Manifesto“. Here’s a brief overview of the topics covered in the book: The true cost of information overload and multi-tasking (it will open your eyes to a looming crisis) What research proves about the benefits of mind mapping software…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute ReadWriteWeb has posted a fantastic (and detailed) list of tools for information visualization: “Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute From LifeHacker: “The web has democratized a lot of things since its birth, including the learning previously available only with a hefty tuition check. College site Education Portal has a handy list of the colleges that offer the most comprehensive course material online, including open-course trailblazers like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University,…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes When I first started using knowledge management applications (mainly traditional outliners), I had hoped that I could find the “One True Application” or OTA. The OTA is the single killer-app that contains all the features I could ever hope for, solves all of my problems, and automagically helps organize all my information. Well folks, I’ve…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Google just recently released Google Talk Chatback. Chatback allows website owners and bloggers to embed Google Talk capabilities directly into their site, so their visitors and subscribers can get in touch with them and start chatting immediately. Talkback doesn’t require that the chat guests have an existing Google Talk account, or even have an email…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes I wanted to take a minute and share what I’ve been working on recently. I’ve spent the last couple weeks setting up my new personal wiki. My ultimate goal is to use a wiki, and other open source applications/tools, to act as a personal knowledge manager and learning aid. I’ve also been evaluating a fantastic…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute I found a nifty PowerPoint presentation on a summary of Semantic Wikis (originally posted on ontoworld.org). I figured I’d share, and also give Scribd a whirl. With the recent release of their product called iPaper, Scribd offers an *Amazing* service that allows you to share and embed many different types of docs (namely PDF, PPT,…
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