I attended WIRED Magazine's NextFest 2005 yesterday at Chicago's Navy Pier. It was an interesting event with many displays of the (near) future of technology.
In my challenge to read anything this year, my Father's Day gift of Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner was so good I could barely put it down. For someone who enjoys numbers and math, I couldn't help wanting more: data, questions answered, and toys to do the analyses myself.
Lilia Efimova points to a paper about the "Dynamics of Email Triage" and discusses some interesting ideas about personal effectiveness in relation to how people learn to use their tools.
Chris Lundquist writes "Quick Collaboration and New News" that discusses Jybe for free online screen sharing (but not editing). Combine that with Skype and you have web meetings for the cost of your internet connection.
Fortune has an interview with Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie: "How to Escape E-Mail Hell" with some interesting tidbits.
Rojo is the first aggregator I've seen that incorporates the concept of tagging into the feed reading experience. This might be enough to get me to jump away from my current aggregator.