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Archive for the ‘Information Overload’ Category

February 23rd, 2008

Library of Congress blog and podcasts

Blogs are good information dissemination tools that cannot be doubted. And it is quite nice to feature blogs like that of the US Library of Congress. The blog covers a wide array of topics like blogging, copyright and news. And the RSS feed is a full text.
And here is another interesting RSS feed from the […]

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February 16th, 2008

See’N’search Samsung See’N’search

Saw this video by through Richard Lawler’s post, Samsung’s See’N’Search set-top TV / Internet box demo video , at Engadget. It shows how Samsung’s See’N’Search set top box works - what is does is scans the channel guide and related meta data and then suggests possible links to the program or shows one […]

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February 13th, 2008

Alertle Alerts

The Internet seems to be shrinking in terms of RSS Readers.
Ladies and Gentlemen meet Alertle. Promoted as the new way of reading feeds:
Experience the new and revolutionary way of surfing the web, where you get the updates from your favorite websites delivered to you in one place.[Source]

But what is new and innovative with Alertle?
Tags: Alertle

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February 13th, 2008

Illumio for taming information overload and socializing

I have been trying out Illumio for the past few weeks and this seems to be a quite useful tool in trimming the information fat from RSS and Web feeds. The application and services needs an app to be downloaded and one needs to be registered to the service.
The service tailors the news harvested […]

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February 11th, 2008

Wikipedia in your pocket

Imagine carrying a whole encyclopedia in your pocket. I know you have heard or learned about this before. This has got to be one of the most mentioned blurb for any digital reader that came out of an inventors hands and into the care of the salesmen. Now imagine the whole Wikipedia inside an Iphone […]

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February 7th, 2008

University of Michigan 1 M scanned

Maria Mitchell, life, letters and journals is the millionth book put on-line by the University of Michigan. The book is about the life of 19th century American Astronomer Maria Mitchell.
What does this mean?

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January 21st, 2008

Wikipedia plus Kaltura equals wikivideo?

Wikipedia and collaborative video service Kaltura are now working together to bring video to Wikimedia. Check the story out here. which incidentally is via Wikipedia and states quite clearly out:

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January 16th, 2008

Library of Congress opens a Flickr account

This is good news for on-line infophiles and fellow appreciators of quality information. The Library of Congress has opened an account in Flickr, here is their page. If there is anything beyond a pro-account they should get it.
Here are the details on the Library of Congress Blog posted as My Friend Flickr: A Match Made […]

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January 15th, 2008

Alternatives to Google or Wikipedia

Stan Schroeder wrote an interesting post about this teacher who instructed her students to refrain from using Google and Wikipedia. See Google is White Bread for the Mind, Says Teacher . Previously, he also wrote the post Why Google is Making Us Dumber. Both for Mashable. This is not the first time people complained about […]

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January 1st, 2008

Talk about Information Overload

Just before several friends of mine have been backing up their digital data to external hard drives. I being a decade or two late still backup my digital data - mostly photos, videos and some text documents on CDs and DVDs. It would be interesting to see how many people received external hard drives this […]

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