Howard Rheingold: Ann Blair on The History of Information

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 …

Howard Rheinghold: Science of Paying Attention

Studies such as Nass et. al.’s “Cognitive Control in Media Multitaskers” have demonstrated on a general level that media multitaskers are actually rapidly task-switching and that the attentional costs of switching focus degrades efficiency in accomplishing individual tasks. But that research is just the beginning. Important to infotention is what is not yet known about …

Howard Rheinigold: Cultivating a Personal Learning Network

Institute for Social and Network Literacy Life Skills for Knowledge Citizenship Notes on cultivating a personal learning network Explore — it’s not just about knowing how to find experts, co-learners, but about exploration as invitation to serendipitous encounter. Search – Use Diigo, delicious, listorious, to find pools of expertise in the fields that interest you. …

1992 Rheingold (US) Migrating Intelligence to the Public

Howard Rheingold first came to the attention of the secret world when his book, Tools for Thinking, was integrated into Project George (Smiley) in the Office of Information Technoloigy.  Independently of Diane Webb, whose articulation of CATALYST (Computer Aided Tools for the Analysis of Science and Technology) he defined human-centered and analytically-oriented computing.  The US …