All in technology
Matt Thommes is thinking about "Grouping RSS feeds by priority and frequency." This is an idea I've been playing with for a while, but I've never gotten right because of exactly the problem that Matt discusses in his post.
Here's something that isn't going to happen: shut down the internet because it is keeping people from communicating. At least Elton John thinks so.
"Time out (please?)" from Brett Miller and some reflection on Facebook has me thinking that the best Facebook application is my bicycle. Or the back porch and a Moleskin.
Amy Gahran says, "I want one place for all my content: Pipe dream?" She mentioned this at BlogHer as well.
Several people in my reading list have mentioned AideRSS in the past few days. The service just launched on Tuesday, so I thought I'd have a look.
I got my upgrade to MindManager 7, and the biggest difference is that the UI now incorporates the Microsoft "ribbon" concept, making the menu and toolbars look very different. Not happy.
Vic of the mind-mapping blog has built a mind-mapping specific search with the Google Co-Op tools.
Dennis Kennedy has a discussion / rant on the trend of every software application to decide that it needs to automatically update itself and screw up your machine.
Matt Hodgson had some interesting thoughts on "Meeting needs - why social computing works." He wrote in reaction to another blog posting, which nearly illustrates the point.
I've been looking at using one of the social networking services to extend the reach of a growing community of ~200 people. Does LinkedIn's or Facebook's group feature make sense?
Okay, a bunch of technology bloggers have covered this, but flickrvision is the coolest thing I've seen for wasting time in quite a while.
After writing about how important it is to understand the business problem first, here is a story from CIO Magazine where the project started with the technology.
Art Murray's "Breaking free of the technology trap" in the June 2007 KMWorld talks about changing the mindset of implementing technology in business.
Simplehelp has a handy "20 Free RSS Readers Reviewed" with 3/4 being install-on your machine applications and the other 1/4 being web-based apps.
"You can't be additcted to communication," says Keith Hampton. Yes, but you can be addicted to the tools.
The folks at TheBrain showed off their latest work with PersonalBrain on a webinar today.
Chuck Frey has released the results of his recent mind mapping software survey. This survey was about how mapping software is used and the functionality that people find most helpful at a high level.
OnePipe gives you a quick way to create a sub-feed from an existing feed based on your query.