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May 4, 2007
Karen Schneider, who was one of my favorite librarians even before she reviewed Everything Is Miscellaneous, has posted her review at the American Library Association’s techie site. She says the book is “dangerous.” That’s not an adjective I often (ever?) hear applied to anything I do — I installed a seat-belt on our LazyBoy chair — so I’m just tickled pink. [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous karen_schneider ]
Ethan Zuckerman has posted a review of Everything is Miscellaneous. He thinks reading it is like drinking a mojito: Towards the bottom you always end up with leaves in your teeth. Ok, so maybe that wasn’t the point of his metaphor, but Ethan does a great job explaining what the book is about. [Tags: ethan_zuckerman reviews]
Peter Morville, author of the excellent and enjoyable Ambient Findability, reviews Everything is Miscellaneous. He likes it, but thinks I don’t recognize that “third order,” digital organizational systems are often built on top of “second order” systems. I’m sure he’s right that I over-emphasize the new and scant the existing systems. I do, however, believe in mixed modes and hybrid systems that take advantage of every way of organizing information. Since we no longer have to settle on one, we should have lots. [Tags: peter_morville everything_is_miscellaneous reviews]
February 27, 2007
I believe the software John Palfrey used at the BeyondBroadcast conference is MindMap. It combines outlining with superslick presentation quality. There’s an open source outliner that some compare with it called FreeMind, but on a quick look, it doesn’t seem to be nearly as slick…but it’s free and open source. [Tags: outliners john_palfrey everything_is_miscellaneous]
January 19, 2007
I’ve been going through laptop mice like a cat goes through mice. The cords fray where they join the USB plug. But my latest cheap laptop mouse has lasted for months because I applied some preemptive Goop — the viscous glue you can use to fill in a worn sneaker sole — at the join. Works like a charm. Plus, it makes it look like you just sneezed on your mouse, useful for keeping the person next to you on the plane curled up in the far side of his seat. [Tags: tips goop mice]
January 10, 2007
I’ve owned the www.JohoTheBlog.com domain for years, and for years I’ve had a redirect that sends you to www.hyperorg.com/blogger/index.html. Now, my friendly and helpful host has made an alias so www.JohoTheBlog.com goes directly to the right page, with no redirect hiccup. Go ahead, give it a try: www.JohoTheBlog.com. See, you’re back where you started. What will they think of next?
If you already have a link here, first: Thanks! And there’s no need to change a thing. In fact, you’re pointing at the honest-to-TBL, unaliased address. But, from now I’ll be telling people the link to my blog is www.JohoTheBlog.com.
January 6, 2007
Here’s an amazingly high res photographic image (a series of tiles, actually) of Boston. [Tags: boston]
January 4, 2007
I spent all last night obsessively composing (or was I dreaming that I was composing?) this blog post that explains that I spent all last night trying to get my body into exactly the right configuration so I could fall asleep. If a single fold of blanket were wrong, I had to fix it, but in so doing, I would knock some other element out of kilter. But the obsessive micromanagement of my bedware was only part of the obsession. The rest of it was the focus on writing this post. (And, no, this is not exactly the post I composed while obsessing. For one thing, it’s more meta than that.)
I honestly don’t know if I fussed all night or if I only dreamed that I did.
Less fever today. I’m actually going to tackle my email this morning, before my extended fasting (yes, I’m drinking water) makes me loopier than I already am.
Our son came down with it last night. He seems to be about six hours behind me. He does not moan. [Tags: illness fever tmi]
January 3, 2007
Frank Paynter‘s son, Ben, has a story about meteor farmingin the Jan. issue of Wired that’s been turned into a segment of the premiere of PBS’s Wired Science. The show is being streamed here. [Tags: ben_paynter frank_paynter meteors pbs video]
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