The key to dealing with all of this information is to outsource as much of the aggregating as you possibly can. My phone can remember phone numbers. Wikipedia can remember when the Magna Carta was signed. My twitter network can remember all the great stuff going on at the Open Innovation Summit right now in Orlando. All I need to know is how to access the information (and how to back it up).
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A new study from a team at the University of California and published in Science magazine examines the total technological capacity of the world—how much information people have the ability to store and communicate. That amount? At least 295 exabytes. That is, nearly 300 billion gigabytes, or the equivalent of 1.2 billion average-sized hard drives.
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The challenge is to know at any given moment where our attention is most needed. If our cell phone rings while we are talking to a friend, do we pick it up out of habit, or do we take the call because that is where our attention is needed?
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The point is that new tools in general, and Twitter in particular, greatly challenge the binary dichotomy of attention as something that is either given or taken away, distracted. Instead, these tools allow us to direct attention to destinations where it can be sustained with more concentration and immersion. They offer a wayfinding system that is, on the whole, the polar opposite of traditional media’s: While “old media” fought against the scarcity of information, new media are fighting the overabundance of information.
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Open Source Bookmark Curation With the latest release of Sweeper, you can roll your own bookmarking service. This is really powerful when you start activating plugins like our auto-tagger SiLCC or our...
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What if you had to focus for at least 30 minutes on every single task that you did? Would it improve your productivity? Cal Newport takes hard focus for a test drive.
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My keynote at the GEO (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) Learning Conference on June 6, 2011 at the Tremont Grand...
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Digital flow or noise, if not handled properly, will destroy your focus. How to make the Internet's deluge of information work for you rather than the other way around.
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The Room and the Elephant Sven Birkerts Man with Cuboid, M.C.Escher Every so often something will break through the stimulus shield I hold up whenever I go online, which I do far too often these days,...
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When I go to a meeting, I almost never bring my laptop. I have a light one and I could easily bring it along. But I know that if I do, I will not pay attention. I am terrible that way. Someone will start saying something redundant, boring, or irrelevant, and I’ll take that moment to look down at my laptop. I’ll check my email. I’ll check Facebook or Twitter. My attention will stray, and when I look up again I will find that the boring/irrelevant moment is long over, and I’ve missed something significant. I’ve missed part of the point of why I bothered to be there in the first place.
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This video provides an introduction to a series of 11 videos designed to help college students improve their information literacy skills. NOTE: Program notes...
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Formulists lets you organise Twitter into smart, auto-updating Twitter lists: Filter based on location/bio keywords, Twitter activity, and more!
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Tribalfish wants to solve the difficulty involved in conversations on the Internet. Twitter has helped us to solve part of the problem by allowing us to reach a wide variety of people, ...
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t talks about the OODA (Boyd, 1987) loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act), which sounds very like the Deming loop. Boyd (1996) adds the notion that the individual states influence the other stages continuosly (instead of being a discreet process). And that a "fast" system outperforms a thorough system in turbulence/complexity (i.e. Fast scanning/decision vs. full analysis).
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A new approach that we call "collective curation" represents a more effective and more efficient way to get the information we need.
Zack Smith's comment,
June 13, 2011 1:33 PM
I wonder how group think applies to collective curation?
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Two startups aimed at tackling the problem of excessive noise on Twitter are combining forces. Twitter-powered new reader StrawberryJ.am is partnering with tweet-scheduler Buffer to surface the top stories in your social stream each day and tweet them at regular intervals.
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Sure, you nourish your body with healthful foods. Now how about addressing the wear and tear multitasking does to your mind?
So, my friend and colleague Dr. Daniel J. Siegel and I got together and decided to create what we're calling the Healthy Mind Platter. This platter has seven essential mental activities necessary for optimum mental health in daily life. These seven daily activities make up the full set of 'mental nutrition' that your brain needs to function at it's best. By engaging regularly in each of these servings, you enable your brain to coordinate and balance its activities, which strengthens your brain's internal connections and your connections with other people.
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Hashtags — a word or phrase preceded by the “#” symbol — have been popularized on Twitter as a way for users to organize and search tweets.
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Paying attention to something and being aware of it seem like the same thing -they both involve somehow knowing the thing is there. However, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological ...
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Here are a few strategies to master information overload so you can actually use what you have.
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There are a number of ways to contact Paul Jones. You can chat with him via his blog, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and a host of other online tools. Email, however, is no longer one of them.
Jones, a clinical associate professor in the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, told attendees at UNC’s BarCamp that he’s abandoned email — an antiquated application whose time is up, tech insiders say.
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The driving force behind the Web 2.0 revolution is a spirit of intellectual philanthropy and collective intelligence that is made possible by new technologies for communication, collaboration and information management. One of the best examples of collective intelligence in action are the wide range of social bookmarking applications that have been embraced in recent years.
Ferananda's comment,
June 9, 2011 3:08 PM
Yeah! I love diigo. Is my favorite social bookmarking tool. This resource is of great help for me as I teach organizations on how to use it in full power. As always Howard...you surprise me.
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Mindfulness provides us a way to self-direct our experiences in the moment, and thereby self-direct ongoing neuroplasticity in the brain.
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As uprisings turn to revolutions in the Middle East, Al Jazeera's New Media team releases this Twitter Dashboard.
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Ready for a new communications age? Meshin is the next generation platform that uses “smarts” to join all your conversations, calendars and contacts in a “personal communications graph.”
Meshin is available today for Outlook. Meshin Mobile’s private beta launches soon.
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