tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5395205970500889785.post5845182461577828133..comments2008-09-11T15:52:25.543-04:00Valdis Krebshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00174954974731674870noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5395205970500889785.post-49311907219095518782008-09-11T10:43:00.000-04:002008-09-11T10:43:00.000-04:00Valdis,<BR/><BR/>Did you ever get an answer to your question about software for Everything is Misc?<BR/><BR/>If I understand what you're asking, it was one of the things that I loved about Lotus Agenda, an old DOS application that let you put free-form information into it and then based on content could re-organize it into lots of different ad-hoc views.<BR/><BR/>The maker of Agenda, Mitch Kapor, has just released a new networked application which is supposed to do that for a new age - Chandler. I've just installed it, so I can't give you much of a review yet.<BR/><BR/>Also, Zoot is an amazingly complex tool which lets you flexibly handle "self-organizing" information.<BR/><BR/>Just some thoughts.Artemystichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500413376115454289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5395205970500889785.post-46110000949566434272008-07-28T13:41:00.000-04:002008-07-28T13:41:00.000-04:00The way I see it, Twitter is a great way to "manage" the information overflow. The fact is that there is a lot of "noise" on Twitter, so you have no choice but to give up trying to read everything, but at the same time it is perfect to give you a sense of what is in the air when you have time to look.<BR/>I also use Twitter for research: using search.twitter.com to find people/content related to my interests, and then their tweets give me a sense of the context, so that if I see that not only they were talking about something I am interested in, but also it was not just a one shot thought but rather a general focus in their tweets, then I will follow them. <BR/><BR/>While Twitter is one great way to get to people, regular blogs is the other one as the previous comment mentions. I do the same type of research on blogs, using eCairn to track blogs and follow conversations.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile I saw on Twitter this morning something about Cuil (http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/28/technology/cuil.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes), and I find it interesting that it comes up just when regular search seems so obsolete. I find my content through people these days (Twitter, Blogs) rather than through an engine...MarcDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15735116200619589294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5395205970500889785.post-46135852406736465262008-07-28T13:13:00.000-04:002008-07-28T13:13:00.000-04:00Fun article - v. nicely done.<BR/>'Favorites' refers to posts that you have starred though, not people. I use it to mark posts that were particularly funny or that contained a particularly useful link.marklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05263113345759844787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5395205970500889785.post-86283815925863519082008-07-20T16:41:00.000-04:002008-07-20T16:41:00.000-04:00Valdis, great to see you in Twitter-ville. And thanks for the simple metrics.<BR/><BR/>One other tool that I'm finding very useful is FriendFeed. It provides a stream of content from those I "subscribe" to, and from their links. Puts me in touch with more people and their thoughts than I would otherwise find. With desktop apps like Twhirl it's easy to keep this in the background.<BR/><BR/>-Bill Abandhttp://band.myopenid.com/noreply@blogger.com