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2014/03/132014/03/13

Howard Rheingold: Streamtools – a Graphical Tool for Working with Streams of Data

Introducing Streamtools: A Graphical Tool for Working with Streams of Data New and open source from the New York Times R&D Lab We see a moment coming when the collection of endless streams of data is commonplace. As this transition accelerates it is becoming increasingly apparent that our existing toolset for dealing with streams of data is …

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2014/02/19

Howard Rheingold: beginner’s guide to tool (s) leveraging the Internet

Automating repetitive processes, including those you use to seek, filter, tag, store, and retrieve information, can be a useful infotention practice. I’ve Scooped IFTTT before. This blog post is by social media management service Buffer, so the examples are Buffer-centric, but any of these automation tools can be applied to a variety of platforms, services, …

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2014/02/12

Howard Rheingold: Multiplexing vs. Multitasking – the Human Computer Interface Enhancing or Degrading?

While Google Glass is what most of the world hears about wearable info-devices these days, Steve Mann and Thad Starner were experimenting with (much bulkier!) wearable devices at the Media Lab more than a decade ago. I interviewed Tharner back then. He had a head-mounted display and he also communicated wirelessly with his networks through …

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2014/02/06

Howard Rheingold: If Then Online RSS Tool

IFTTT to Evernote can be a powerful team infotention tool (Diigo groups is good for circumstances in which you want to attach comment threads to bookmarked material, add sticky notes, etc. IF THEN ONLINE RSS ALERT TOOL The debate team at my school began using Evernote last year for collaborative research. As students find sources, they dump …

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2014/01/112014/01/11

Howard Rheingold: Seven Principles of Information Filtering

Filtering Seven Principles Filtering is essential to the info-handling side of infotention, and JP Rangaswami is one of the few people I look to for deep and broad thinking about infotention issues (Harold Jarche and Robin Good are others who immediately come to mind). Consider adding his blog to your RSS aggregator: confused of calcutta: …

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2013/12/272013/12/27

Howard Rheingold: Information Wrangling — Seek, Sense, Share

Bryan Alexander takes off from Jane Hart’s personal knowledge management routine to describe his own method of handling information overload, which he calls “information wrangling.” He works through channels and sources daily, reflects, and shares. Alexander details each of these processes in his blog. Bryan Alexander My daily info-wrangling routine Jane Hart describes her daily …

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2013/12/242013/12/24

Howard Rheingold: Information Overload

I’ve scooped before about Ann Blair’s book of pre-modern info-overload — and what was done about. This is a nice short musing about today’s information overload discourse. Information Overload, Past and Present Dan Cohen The end of this year has seen much handwringing over the stress of information overload: the surging, unending streams, the inexorable …

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