Issue I see day to day in business are just as true for the home. This entry outlines a approach for Information Management in the home and focuses on electronic information. Storage This is a big one, there are a multitude of options out there, I will not go through them but I will provide criteria...

We're starting to see more vendors coming out with Flex-based user interfaces, sometimes extending them as full-blown desktop applications using the AIR runtime. For example, Documentum's D6 Web Publisher comes with a standalone Flex interface for certain tasks. To me, turning to Flex for a content ...

LLRX.com has just published an article entitled Metadata - What Is It and What Are My Ethical Duties? : "There is little dispute at this point over the pervasiveness of metadata that can be contained in digital documents and other computer-generated files. It is important to understand that for comp...

Knowledge Management using Mind Maps In these days of information overload, the compact way of representing ideas that is embodied in Mind Mapping is essential. You can summarize a huge amount of information in a very compact space. For us to be able to cope, we need efficient knowledge generation, ...

Links for this Post: Raise the Rafters -- What Barack Obama Needs to Prove in His Democratic National Convention Speech New York Magazine, the Summer 2008 issue Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters July 12, 2007, The Atlantic Arianna Huffington Sunday Roundup July 20, 2008, Huffington Post In addi...

I interviewed TFPL's Darron Chapman on his return from the 2008 SLA (Special Libraries Association) Conference in Seattle: Who were the best speakers? The first keynote on the first day was Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, now Google's Chief internet evangelist, being interviewed by Ch...

Last time we redirected all of our email accounts to the one place, our central email hub at Gmail. Once you have all your accounts trickling into Gmail, you’ve got to manage that flow of information so that a) it’s possible to get through all of your email in fifteen minutes or less and...

Gmail is a powerful tool, but many users of this service aren’t tapping into its full potential. To help you get more productive and get the most out of Gmail, I’m going to spend the next few articles talking about the most effective features of the software and the techniques and practi...

In May-June last year, there was noise in the Twitter and developer communities about delays and unreliable service from the popular microblogging platform. Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror suggested Twitter was a victim of its own success. Twitter fought back, working hard to deal with the service is...

I had a great one-hour session here with Jeff Schick, VP of social networking at IBM, and Joan DiMicco who came to IBM after doing media studies at MIT and is one of the key people behind Beehive. There were only seven of us plus these two quite technical IBM'ers in a suite upstairs in the hotel, gi...