Natural e-mail?3
I Was reading some old post by Lilia about personal visualisations of e-mail archives.
This sentence really hit me:
Dunno if I totally agree with this: I'm a strong supprter of the fact that mind cannot recognize the difference between reality and imagined reality, as long as your imagination is good enough ;)Lilia EfimovaPeople are selfish: I care more about my own archives than about my company's :) Stong quotes on our dependence on external objects to think and to remember.
But, I'm sure Lilia's right in a general sense, since it's obviously easier (or just more usual) to anchor external objects rather than create an illusion equally strong.
This suggests some interesting application of Natural Interaction to Knowledge Management. Any insights?
Other two things I discovered reading this post:
- The existence of three interesting tools:
- K-collector (that, shame on me, I didn't know of before, even if it's a creature of Paolo Valdemarin, an Italian blogger I often read)
- LiveTopics (which seems pretty interesting, but the link is broken!? :( )
- Waypath - to find related posts from weblogs around the Web
- The use Lilia does of trackback pings to address her own posts (or at least I guess she does that by trackbacking herself :P ). Ubercool!!! This way you can read an old post and get all the newer followups on similar topics just by looking at the pings... useful for personal KM too ;)
On the other hand, I'm afraid to be a bit too lazy to do this post by post... there should be an auto or semi-auto tool that does it... that would be great!
TrackBacks
Use the following link to trackback from your own site:
http://bru.bzaar.net/mt/mt-tb.fcgi/134
The guy behind the red nose and this blog is Riccardo "Bru" Cambiassi.
Well...
Bru's exploring a very exciting topic, indeed.
IMHO, computers became the "big collectors" of functions (and meta-functions), concentrators of activities, _the_ multi-functional devices.
Then, now, we start feeling that the "black hole" in front of us (out laptop lcd, monitor or anything else) is somewhat too restricted, our interaction too personal, too private... and we look at other possibilities to bring inter/intra communication on higher levels of augmented functionality and beauty.
Yes, i think of a future made of everyday objects, super-objects, multi-functional too but without the hassle of a multi-functional device.
How? Your "home server" taking care of every logic, your Majordomo, and these super-objects as little magic servants?
Who knows..
Bru,
1. Of course our memory doesn't entirely depend on external objects, but there are some studies (see below) that indicate that manipulation of objects (e.g. papers on your table) helps thinking.
2. liveTopics is add-on to Radio weblog that allows you to add keywords (topics) for every post and then access your archives by topic next to all other things. I heavily use it in my weblog.
Unfortunately the development of liveTopics in discontinued as Matt puts his effort in k-collector (which is "shared" version of liveTopics). You can find a bit more in http://linux.evectors.it/wiki/liveTopics/
3. Trackbacking yourself. This is something that Radio does automatically when you link to your own post (it has trackback autodiscovery). I just love this feature - it allows
4. Just in case your haven't seen it: my paper on "personal KM" model (http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/02/29.html#a1103). References to other work on "external objects as ques" are on p.13.
5. Funny that finding a quote from yourself somewhere else shows flaws in your text. I have no idea what I tried to say with "stong quotes" (strong quotes?) :)
Hi Bru,
you can find some more info on k-collector here:
http://www.evectors.com/itkcollector/
There's a demo site at http://w4.evectors.it, where we are collecting ENT and non ENT feeds, organizing them under an open taxonomy created by our beta users.
Feel free to ping me if you need any further info.
Ciao,
paolo