The Vision Over the last few years, I’ve been interested in the fields of Personal Knowledge Management (or PKM) and Personal Learning Environments (or PLE). I’ve been a knowledge worker as long as I can remember, and have subsequently searched long and hard for numerous software applications and systems to help me better process, organize, and retrieve information. I’ve tried many…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteFound an intriguing post and powerpoint presentation on MyLifeBits, a Microsoft Research project led by Gordon Bell. MyLifeBits was inspired by Vannevar Bush‘s hypothetical Memex computer system. The project includes full-text search, text and audio annotations, and hyperlinks. The “experimental subject” of the project is computer scientist Gordon Bell, and the project will try…
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve had some down time the last couple days, and figure it was time to cleanup my public project list. Most of my work this last year has been solely focusing on building my own Personal Knowledge Management system – my Personal Memex. I’ve written a number of articles in recent months focusing on open…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesBy shear serendipity (ala Google), I stumbled across a truly great paper on Personal Knowledge Management. The paper, titled Building the Memex Sixty Years Later: Trends and Directions in Personal Knowledge Bases, is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive pieces of literature that I’ve read on PKM (Personal Knowledge Management). This paper was written by…
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe memex ( “memory extender”) is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. The memex has influenced the development of subsequential hypertext and intellect augmenting computer systems. Bush’s vision for the memex extended far beyond a mechanism…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week marks the 20th anniversary of when I first started writing online and published my first blog post. In 2010, I released my first open-source project: an unofficial Fitbit API written in Perl. At the time, I had no grand vision—just curiosity and a desire to document my thoughts and pursue my passion across…
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♦ Mindstream Description: Mindstream is a Java-based system tray app to stream and record EEG data from devices that support the ThinkGear (Neurosky) protocol. Github page at: https://github.com/ericblue/MindStream/ ♦ Personal Memex Description: Comprehensive Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system built using a collection of open source projects and custom modules. Hosted at: http://eric-blue.com/my-projects/personal-memex/ ♦ Fitbit Hacks Description: I put this site…
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About Me Hi, I’m Eric, an LA-based technologist and entrepreneur. I’m passionate about technology, health and fitness, love animals, enjoy traveling and good food, and embrace life-long learning! I originally created this personal website and blog back in 2004 to start sharing some of my musings and writings on technology, philosophy and personal development. Over…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesShared Weekly Lifestream for November 6th. Weekly Lifestream for November 6th Whoever handles social media at @Gizmodo needs fired. Shame on them for posting snuff videos. Forget off topic.. beyond disrespectful. Shared 5 Big Happiness Myths Debunked–And The Power Of Negative Thinking | Fast Company | Business Innovation. Building a ’45s era memex makes me…
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Reading Time: 3 minutesHappy to see reference to Bush & the Memex at #QS2011 – inspired my own system http://j.mp/l1v9Py [ericblue] Very cool & extreme quantifying… Ranking it up there with Gordon Bell #QS2011 [ericblue] Shared arduino.js: JavaScript-to-Arduino I/O control interface. Shared MyMedLab.com – Online Lab Tests Made Simple! – Lab Tests Online. Shared SpectraCell Laboratories. RT @EthanZ:…
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