Attitudes in Dealing With Digital Disruption – #CICD Presentation
Last week I gave a presentation at the second international conference on digital citizenship CICD in Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain. During two days topics like on-line political communication,...
View ArticleMy Radar, Finding New Sources of Interest
People often ask me how I stay informed, and always seem to know even about smaller initiatives around the topics I work on. Part of that is what I call ‘Radar’. With Radar I automatically collect all...
View ArticleAppear.in, a Skype alternative
The acquisition by Microsoft of Skype hasn’t worked out well for the product itself, judging by the level of sighs and complaints I hear whenever Skype is mentioned. So I was glad when longtime...
View ArticleOur AI Overlords Are Already Here, They Likely Employ You
The P2P Foundation reposts an article by Jeremy Lent from late 2017 on how corporations are artificial intelligences. It doesn’t mention Brewster Kahle’s 2014 exploration of the same notion. SF writer...
View ArticleShowing html and php code on this site
I made a tiny tool for myself today, to make it easier to display both HTML and PHP code in this site (if you just input it as is it will get filtered, as it would be unsafe otherwise) It’s a small...
View ArticleBringing Delicious Bookmarks Home, Or Maybe Not
For years I had been an active user of Delicious, the social bookmarking service. I started using it in 2004, a year after its launch, and stopped using it in 2015. By then the service had been...
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This is a handy little webclipper that grabs a page and downloads it in markdown. Just yesterday evening I thought about making something that simply grabs the content of a page and stores it to an...
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Yesterday I had a conversation with Andy Sylvester about the tools I use for my personal process for taking in information, learning and working. He posted our conversation today, as episode 8 in his...
View ArticleDown The Research Rabbithole?
Bookmarked Research Rabbit Research Rabbit is a tool that, when provided with some academic paper you already are familiar with, can suggest other related material as well as provide that material. By...
View Articlet:: For Selected Thing To Do
In het past weeks I struggled to get to action. I didn’t have the sense that I was in the pilot seat. Too many little things budding in, not being able to get started on bigger things, and no sense of...
View ArticleBuilding My Own Microsub Client For Feed Reading
I’ve started creating my own feed reader. Which I find is a pretty wild thing to say for me, given my limited coding skills. Last month I created my own Micropub client. Micropub allows me to post...
View ArticleWhat Toolset For Starting Groups?
Favorited The Small and Starting Community Tool Gap on In Full Flow Good questions I don’t know the current answer to either. What tools are there if you want to provide a small, still forming group,...
View ArticleInformation strategy: tools
In my earlier posting on information strategy I discussed how I look at the way I filter information. This posting I will talk about the tools I use to filter incoming information, select, process and...
View ArticleWeaving Webs: How to Quickly Find Somebody’s Online Traces?
As I do after each conference I am currently busy finding people on-line and adding them to my ‘social filter’ after BlogTalk Reloaded. Basically that means finding their on-line presences and adding...
View ArticleWeaving Webs: How to Combine Online Traces, Part II
There has been quite a bit of response on my posting where I thought out loud about a search tool to help me find on-line traces of people I met face to face, so that I can follow up. A large part of...
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Bookmarked Elicit.org A while ago I mentioned Research Rabbit here as a tool to find research papers, based on the ones already in my collection (e.g. through syncing with Zotero). Last week I created...
View ArticleUsing Hypothes.is – Early Impressions
Here are some impressions of my increased usage of Hypothes.is, a social annotation tool, in the past few days. I follow Chris Aldrich his Hypothes.is RSS feed, and his usage has been both a good...
View Article10 Thoughts After 100 Annotations in Hypothes.is
I’ve now added over 100 annotations using Hypothes.is (h.), almost all within the last month. This includes a few non-public ones. Two weeks ago I wrote down some early impressions, to which I’m now...
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