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”).

Learn how to sync your iPhone3g using Ubuntu Linux and VMWare.

It took a little bit of work, but the face lift is complete! The new eric-blue.com redesign is finished, and both my original website and blog have been migrated to the Wordpress blogging platform. I’ve been meaning to make the switch for a while, but was recently motivated to follow in the steps of some fellow bloggers (namely Chuck Frey and C4Chaos).
I was lucky to have found an amazing magazine-style theme, and am hoping that the new layout makes the site much easier to navigate and find content that’s …