The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Maria Popova is a great curator. Brain pickings is a great infotention tool — she spends a lot of time and well-thought-out decision-making about what is good to share. “We live in a world awash of information, but we seem to face a growing scarcity of wisdom,” states Maria Popova, Founder of the website Brain …
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This fellow is an infotention superstar. He understands that the tools he uses are means of augmenting his memory, an he knows how to connect tools such as IFTTT, Instapaper, and Evernote. I’m going to start adopting some of the methods Steve recommends. Consolidating Personal Knowledge “This post is the second in series on how …
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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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