Personal Blog

How To Create Your Own Personal Document Viewer (Like Scribd or Google Books)

January 3, 2010

Reading Time: 3 minutesLike most people, I have a large number of personal documents in a variety of formats (PDF, Excel, Word, RTF, PowerPoint, etc.). For the typical user, organizing these documents in a ‘My Documents’ folder and having MS Office/Open Office/Adobe Acrobat installed simply gets the job done. However, I’ve been looking for some sort of “Web 2.0” solution to view my documents while I’m on the go. And, since my knowledge manager is web-based, I’d like a way to browse and embed personal documents directly in my wiki without needing any special software.

Knowledge To Go: Put Your Wiki On Your IPhone

December 13, 2009

Reading Time: 6 minutesBuilding 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.

iPhone Apps for Education

December 12, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minuteICTAC MEMO iPhone Apps for Education

How to Synchronize Your Digital Scrapbook

December 7, 2009

Reading Time: 4 minutesI had originally planned on calling this article ‘How to Use Cloud Computing to Synchronize Your Digital Scrapbook For Research and Integrate Into Your Personal Knowledge Management Wiki for Extra Credit’

Timeline of Major Trends and Events (Social, Technological, Economic & Political)

December 6, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI found a unique and visually stunning infographic on FlickR today: Timeline of Major Trends and Events (Social, Technological, Economic & Political) Peter von Stackelberg designed this complex timeline of social, technological, economic and political events and trends from 1750 to 2100. Each time series shows graphs, events and categories on a common scale. Peter…
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Feel Good Philosophy

October 28, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutesI recently started reading The Truth About Everything, An Irreverent History of Philosophy.  I have to say, for a critique and history of philosophy book, it has been a very (wildly) entertaining read. I found one particular paragraph that stood out to me.  Being both the idealist and compulsive categorizer, I often wonder what drivers…
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Total Recall, Personal Informatics and Life Logging

October 18, 2009

Reading Time: 3 minutes“Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, “memex” will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.” — Vannevar Bush (1945)
Fast forward fifty four years, and we finally have the technology (hardware and software) to make the Memex a reality. My project has been primarily focused on fulfilling a small portion of the the original idea, but has only touched the surface. The Memex fully realized would be a system that completely (and automatically) digitizes experiences, memories, and interactions with the environment. The capability for Total Recall , offloading human memory to a digital space, is not too far away (think Cyborgs).

Jung on Dream Journals

September 17, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe New York Time’s recently featured an article on Jung’s intriguing and much anticipated Red Book. redbook The Holy Grail of the Unconscious http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html?pagewanted=1 A quote from Jung on journaling the inner workings of the mind and (possibly) dreams stuck out to me: “I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as…
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What worry would you like to let go of?

September 13, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe thought that time is somehow running out. Tags: QaR, worry, concern, letting go

Information Visualization Toolkits for Mind Mapping

June 4, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe other week, I wrote a blog post The Visual Wiki: A New Metaphor For Knowledge Access and Management. At the time, until I read the paper in depth, I hadn’t realized that this was about a project that I had blogged about last year: Thinkbase – A Visual Semantic Wiki. In a nutshell: “Thinkbase…
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