Software, Methods

  • A personal content management assistant

    Tinderbox is a personal content management assistant. It stores your notes, ideas, and plans. It can help you organize and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs.

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  • Mobile RSS

    Here’s a recommended aggregator for the Palm OS.

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  • Some useful links

    Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution: I was led to this by reading cogdogblog — who has just read Simon Winchester’s The Map that Changed the World, a book about our (Marlborough’s!) “local” proto-geologist, William Smith. Michelle’s Online Learning Freakout Party Zone: a blog that looks like a mine of ideas and links about learning…

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  • Another key player

    Ross Mayfield (blog) is the CEO of SocialText, a company that provides ‘Enterprise Social Software’ — which, being translated, means they are adapting wikis and weblogs for corporate use. (Incidentally, here is an interesting page about what ‘wiki’ is and why/how it works.) He also formed Blog-Network or Ryze, a community of those who blog…

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  • The desire to doodle

    Bringing “ink” to blogs is a clear ‘must have’: ‘We need more ink-enabled blogging apps to make Doodle blogging practical. I’d also really like to see “smart” blog publishing within OneNote that can intelligently post intermingled ink and text’ (Loren’s blog). See, too, Doodle Blogging by J.D. H..

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  • The Open Opinion Layer

    In the Comments to Bill Quick’s piece (below), Tom Cohoe writes: ‘Nice concept, but I fear the more idealistic you are in allowing unfettered and equal access to your site, the more likely it is to degenerate into a typical discussion group. Unmoderated discussion groups, which usually develop into a structure under which the meanest…

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  • Take back the Net

    PC Magazine has a major article examining Blog Tools, Wiki Tools, RSS Tools, Wireless Collaboration, Video & VoIP, Pushing Screens … and memes.

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  • Take back the Net

    PC Magazine has a major article examining Blog Tools, Wiki Tools, RSS Tools, Wireless Collaboration, Video & VoIP, Pushing Screens … and memes.

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  • Browsers

    Alternatives to IE abound. I am particularly taken with MyIE2 and Mozilla FireBird. Both support features that speed up working practices considerably.

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