This touches on how we store information and the extraordinary efforts we must go through to find something in digital milieu. The case cited here is a documentation of the first use of The Smiley :-)

Dr. Carla O'Dell, the president of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) writes in the Navy's Chips online magazine an overivew of Knowledge Management, What's Now and What's Next.

Here's an article at GanttHead (a site for project managers, natch) that discusses a technique that integrates the hemispheres of the brain by allowing creativity and imposing order. The technique, using a Mind Mapping, was developed by Tony Buzan in the 1970's. There are books out about this stuff too.

Alright! Ben Hammersley of "The Guardian" newspaper (UK) writes an accessible treatment of how you can use a piece of software called a "Newsreader" to efficiently process news on the web. He even describes RSS (and what it's written in: XML) in an understandable fashion. Good job, Ben!

Chris Goetz referred me to this article on the Accenture website about the subtleties of virtual collaboration. This came up in an email thread about the usefulness of instant messaging.

This whole area on the Accenture site, "Outlook Online", looks like it will be an interesting read and area to track.

Nathan Shedroff's new book, Experience Design, arrived in the mail yesterday. I enjoyed diving into it. I've heard Nathan speak at a couple of web builder conferences and have enjoyed following his development of experience design as a discipline on his website and in the AIGA Advance for Design, an initiative to define Experience Design from the Graphics Artist direction, I suppose.

One of the sites referenced in the book was Virtual Tourist. I've gone there and set up my travels. Lots of fun.

But I digress: the book is a visual feast and I'm enjoying it as an unorthodox textbook. Definitely recommended.

Andrew Dillon, Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Texas at Austin is interviewed by IT@UT as to what he's trying to accomplish there. I wanna go, I wanna go!

Ok, I know you'll think it's nuts but here is an Evangelical Christian Pastor, a specialist/thinker on how the church should respond to the cultural paradigm shift towards postmodernism, proposing that making the "church" into a "learning organization" as part of the solution. Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Post-Modern Matrix.

I'm in the middle of reading George Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things : What Categories Reveal About the Mind. It's tough sledding (read: serious research-y stuff) but very interesting as a primer on how people process and deal with "information".