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MindMeister – Sharing Mind Maps On Your Blog

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter reading Chuck’s feature matrix of the latest web-based mind map applications, I discovered that MindMeister allows you to easily share and embed your mind maps on your blog. This does require a premium subscription (~ $50 USD per year), but I figured I’d give it a shot. I imported an old mind map that…
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SDExpo 2007: Day in Review (3/22/07)

Reading Time: 3 minutesToday was another information-packed day! I have to say that the sessions on agile methodologies turned out to be really great. Here are some of the highlights of the more interesting sessions I attended: Transitioning to Agile: A Guide to Good Practices in Context Michael Cohn, from Mountain Goat Software, gave an excellent presentation on…
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Review of Web-Based Mind Mapping Software

Reading Time: < 1 minuteChuck Frey recently published an article that shows a side-by-side feature comparision of some of the latest web-based mind map applications. The reviewed applications include Mindomo, MindMeister, Bubble.us, and Thinkature.

SDExpo 2007: Day in Review (3/21/07)

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis year’s SDExpo West (Software Development Expo) conference was hosted at the Santa Clara Convention center in Santa Clara, California. The convention center is not far from San Fransisco and is located near the heart of “Silicon Valley”. Overall, the day turned out to be fun and very informative! The SDExpo conference focuses on many…
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Touch Down in Santa Clara

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy plane arrived last night, and I’m eager to attend the SDEXPO (Software Development) here in Santa Clara, CA. There are some interesting sessions this year, and I’m sure there will be something to write about. I’ll post more later.

The Secret: Stuart Davis

Reading Time: 2 minutesIntegral musician Stuart Davis was recently feaured on Ken Wilber’s blog. His post titled: The Secret: The Spirituality of Narcissism gives an interesting critique of the popular movie The Secret. Here are some key points: 1) The Secret is (partly) true “Our thoughts and feelings are of consequence, and positive thinking and feeling can significantly…
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Omega Mapping Revisited

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSince I originally discovered Omega Mapping a couple weeks ago, Vitaly Kolesnik has created a more detailed article in English. You can read at: http://www.kolesnik.ru/en/omegamapping/

The Bad Boys of Philosophy

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a great post on Neatoramo listing the 9 Bad Boys of Philosophy. 1. Socrates 2. Diogenes 3. Abelard 4. Marx 5. Schopenhauer 6. Nietzsche 7. Heidegger 8. Bertrand Russell 9. Michel Foucault Bonus Thales of Miletus

Subliminal Messages Work!

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to NeuroscienceMarketing.com new research at the University College London confirms the effectiveness of subliminal messages. Scientists at the University College London (UCL) have found the first physiological evidence that invisible subliminal images do attract the brain’s attention on a subconscious level. The findings challenge previous scientific assumptions that consciousness and attention go hand-in-hand.

The Zone

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJanette Girod, author of the blog The Voodoo You Do, recently posted an article about flow titled Flow: Getting Into the Zone at Work. This article is similar to the one by 37 Signals that I posted about back in November. But, Janette lists all 9 components of flow, and gives some specific examples. In…
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