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Knowledge Management Visualization Upgrades

January 27, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust discovered some exciting news from Semantic Media Wiki: SMW now supports Ploticus and Exhibit for powerful data visualizations. From http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/New_data_visualization_for_SMW:_Exhibit_and_Ploticus 22 Jan 2009. Semantic Result Formats (SRF), the add-on package for query formats in SMW, has just been extended with two great additions for powerful data visualisation: Ploticus and Exhibit. Both are available to…
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Kant and the Big Three

January 26, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutesGood overview of Kant and the Reenchantment of the world from Wilber’s Marriage of Sense and Soul (pg. 86): “Critique of Pure Reason (written in 1781) relentlessly exposed the inadequacies of monological reason to grasp metaphysical truths, and it basically marked the dramatic and historical end of that type of metaphysics. The death of traditional…
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Some Important Modern Pioneers: Baldwin, Habermas, Aurobindo, and Maslow

January 19, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrom Integral Life: “In this excerpt from Integral Psychology, Ken Wilber honors some of the forerunners to his own model Integral theory and practice: James Mark Baldwin,  Jürgen Habermas, Aurobindo, and Abraham Maslow—intellectual giants upon whose shoulders we all stand…. Some Important Modern Pioneers: Baldwin, Habermas, Aurobindo, and Maslow From Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber…
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PhilosophersNotes: Get Your Wisdom On!

January 11, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBrian Johnson, entrepeneur and philosopher at heart, has created a new site/service called PhilosopherNotes. What is PhilosophersNotes?
Think: Mini-CliffsNotes for Self-Development Books!

Instruction Manual for Life

January 10, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust found this great video on YouTube (via delicous.com)

Topic Maps and the Semantic Web

January 8, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minuteInteresting presentation of Topic Maps and the Semantic Web.  Plus, some background info on HyperText, Vannevar Bush, and the Memex. Topic Maps and the Semantic Web – Ontopedia Publish at Scribd or explore others:

The 80 Best Lifehacks of 2008

December 31, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutesPerfect timing since 2008 is quickly coming to a close. LifeHack recently posted an article: The 80 Best Lifehacks of 2008 And so we arrive yet again at the end of another year. 2008 was at best a mixed bag – while the world was electrified by the US election and it’s promise of change,…
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FreeMind Flash Viewer Broken With Flash 10?

December 21, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter some mildly confusing debugging, I finally discovered why my MindMap Viewer was not working with some configurations of Firefox 3, Flash, and Linux or Mac.  I first noticed this myself on Linux a couple weeks ago (Ubuntu / FF3 / Flash 10), and assumed this had something to do with my recent upgrade to…
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Integral Vision Mind Maps

December 18, 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutesLast 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.

12 Laws of Life

December 17, 2008

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI just came across a truly excellent post by Tom at Connecting with NLP: Tom’s Twelve Laws of Life 1.     SELF-MANAGEMENT AND PEOPLE SKILLS ARE THE KEYS TO YOUR SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS. 2.     YOU ARE AT THE CENTER OF YOUR UNIVERSE. STAY THERE! 3.     WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT MOST IS WHAT YOU GET. 4.     YOU…
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