Chicago Aggregation

I find it's nice to have a few aggregator feeds in my daily mix. For Chicago, I've found Oodle (a classified aggregator, still in beta) and Topix (headlines from around Chicago). They're a useful chorus to the single notes in my feed subscriptions and give me a good idea of

Wagging the Long Tail

When I threw this blog together, I had it in the back of my mind that this would be a place to discuss issues in my profession, gain some insights and become part of a larger community of people who also struggled with how to make the web a productive

Initial Results from my RSS Pilot

If you've been reading my blog, you know that I'm piloting RSS within my organization. I started by setting nine co-workers up on Bloglines, and provided them with the following:A starter set of feeds A spiel about the value of RSSMethods to find feeds on sitesMy expectations for people in

How much can your mind keep track of?

Apparently, not much. Cognitive science researchers at the University of Queensland say that the human mind can only keep track of four variables when trying to solve a problem. I'm not sure, but I think explains why I can't knit in front of the T.V. and read my knowledge management

The slippery slope…

I've almost convinced my boss that we should have audio books on iPod Shuffles available for check-out in the company library. Once we get this in-house, I'll hit her with converting our company meetings and our president's speeches into MP3 and putting them on both the Intranet and iShuffles. After