The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I use Personal Brain intermittently. It’s a deep and powerful information and knowledge management tool that I recommend for those interested in serious personal knowledge management. It’s also a useful infotention aid. I’ve attended many of these seminars and recommend them. Rise Above the Information Deluge. Effective Visualization and Information Management Thursday, June 26, 2014 …
The attentional window for short-term memory might be smaller than previously thought. Chunking information is one key strategy that can be exapted to infotentional practice. Four is the ‘magic’ number ScienceDaily, 28 November 2012 According to psychological lore, when it comes to items of information the mind can cope with before confusion sets in, the …
Since Google ditched Google Reader, RSS has receded from many people’s awareness. Yet RSS and versatile RSS readers such as NetVibes continue to exist, and if you want to learn information skills to support attention skills, you can do no better than Dawn Foster, who can tell you simply and step-by-step how to arrange for …
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Esteemed co-learners — Introduction to Mind Amplifiers covers the broad theory and practice of intellectual augmentation and the practical skills of infotention, curation, and personal learning networks. The syllabus and schedule: http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/mindamp6 We use weekly live meetings via audio, video, text-chat, and whiteboard and continuing asynchronous conversations through forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, and social bookmarks. …
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Empirical research on the neural correlates of attention is revealing a multi-functional system by which we balance the center of attention with the periphery, focus and scanning, allowing and suppressing attention to input. For students and those who are beginning to train their online infotention, it begins with strengthening the ability to ignore distractions. However, …
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JP Rangaswami’s thoughtful series of blog posts on the why and how of filtering online info-flows is a fundamental infotention text. Instead of Scooping all seven, I’ve Scooped this blog post by Jon Reed that summarizes and links to all seven parts. Filtering JP Rangaswami – from information deluge to context Jon Reed diginomica, 7 …
Esteemed co-learners — We’re convening “Toward a Literacy of Cooperation: Introduction to Cooperation Studies,” April 30 – June 12. A detailed syllabus: http://bit.ly/cooperationcourse Cost: $300; $250 if you’ve taken a Rheingold U course before; $500 if your company reimburses you. In addition to the monetary cost, a commitment to participate is required. The real magic …
