The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Info Capacity 1 One in a million: Information vs. Attention From a special section of the International Journal of Communication — Howard “Aristotle could write that we ascribe “universal education to one who in his own individual person is thus critical in all or nearly all branches of knowledge, and not to one who has …
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I’m glad to see Google providing more material about how to use search effectively — Howard – – – – – – — GOOGLE SEZ: Help your students become better searchers Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your …
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Ann Blair on The History of Information The history professor and author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age tells us what researchers have been discovering about how earlier human societies collected, organised and used information… Amazing read and historical perspective about transmission. Knowledge and information are actually very different …
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Hootsuite now includes RSS, Mailchimp, and more Hootsuite, the social media dashboard, has added five new apps specifically aimed at the enterprise: Mailchimp email campaign management tool, Chime.in for brands to build communities, an RSS reader, and more — Howard See Also: Howard Rheingold at Phi Beta Iota
Welcome to DeepaMehta | DeepaMehta Looks like a more sociable version of Personal Brain — mindmapping plus communication. “DeepaMehta is a software platform for knowledge workers. The special feature of DeepaMehta is the situation-centered user interface: information belonging to one working context is — together with its content associations — displayed and edited in a …
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About SweetSearch SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content on findingDulcinea. We constantly evaluate our search results and “fine-tune” them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such …
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Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey – Waxy.org A little technically complicated to install, but this filter is an example of the kind of crap-detection/information-evaluation filters that the infotentive will be able to use as filter-tech becomes more user-friendly — Howard “With the help of del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter, we used a recommendation algorithm to score …
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