Archive for the ‘personal information management’ Category

Liveblogging the January NoVaLUG meeting

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

This  morning I'm at the Northern Virginia Linux User Group meeting.  The topic is photo management software for Linux (presentation by Theodore Ruegsegger), but they also asked anyone with an  XO to bring it along, so Jonathan Blocksom put the word out on the One Laptop Per Child Learning Club ...

1 Laptop Per … Christmas?

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

I've been following the development of One Laptop Per Child with interest, even before I saw one up close in April. I like their Learning Vision, their open source approach to the hardware, software and content (freedom to tinker), and the hardware features (designed to be durable and useful ...

Fragmentation

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Catherine Devlin's birthday wish list expresses a desire for a tag-based file access system, for (re)organizing her folder structure and tracking files to hang onto for migration and other purposes. Sounds good to me! I'd love to see a TortoiseCVS-style application I could run on top of Windows ...

Blogging Panels at Penguicon

Monday, April 30th, 2007

After my Knowledge Gardening talk was accepted for Penguicon 5.0, Matt Arnold the Programming Wrangler copied me on email asking who was interested in co-panelling on [a list of possible topics]. I picked "Blogging Your Life Without Losing Your Job, Or Your Mind", and emailed my co-panelists ...

Tags, Personal Information Management, and Beyond

Monday, March 5th, 2007

I tend to be more interested in topics that don't fit neatly into one category: interdisciplinary, multi-faceted matters.  This is why I was so happy when I discovered tags (and social bookmarking, serendipitously) -- a.k.a. "labels" in Gmail.   I like the way tagging helps me organize and recall information I've come across on the ...

LibraryThing and Information Management

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Now that a handheld trigger-scanner is coming my way, I've created a LibraryThing account for myself. So far, I've just manually added books I had at the office; the major imports will come when I get the scanner and a friend helps me whip through my bookcases at home. I'm ...