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This website covers knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints, amongst other topics. Opinions expressed here are strictly those of the owner, Jack Vinson, and those of the commenters.

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May 8
May 8 20 Free RSS Readers Reviewed by Simplehelp

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technology

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.

May 7
May 7 Communication is not an addiction - Keith Hampton

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culture, technology

"You can't be additcted to communication," says Keith Hampton. Yes, but you can be addicted to the tools.

May 6
May 6 Models of behavioral change

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culture, theory of constraints

Luke Niasmith has a nice pair of images, one from Robinson, and another that reverses the positive effect. They depect 7 Steps to Behavior Change.

May 6
May 6 Surprise announcement: there is a dark side of blogging

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blogs

A friend, who is considering a blog, pointed me to this rather negative article "The Dark Side of Blogging: Warnings From Leading Bloggers." Nothing terribly shocking from my perspective.

May 3
May 3 Ghost blogging is unethical

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blogs, culture

Ghost blogging - the process of writing a blog in someone else's place - is just not right.

May 3
May 3 PersonalBrain 4 Demo

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technology, personal effectiveness

The folks at TheBrain showed off their latest work with PersonalBrain on a webinar today.

May 3
May 3 Tag, You're It podcast from SXSW

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tags

The Tag, You're It panel discussion from SXSW Interactive has some good information on tagging. There are four panelists, including Thomas Vander Wal.

May 2
May 2 Productivity on the brain

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personal effectiveness

You all know I am interested in personal effectiveness. For some reason, a number of things have come across my eyes and ears recently that relate to the idea of personal productivity / multitasking. And then there is the Ultimate Guide to Productivity group blogging project.

May 3
May 3 I am on the midway - Carnival of Agilists

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self

My blog friend, Kevin Rutherford has drawn one of my posts into his carnival of the agilists.

May 2
May 2 A day in the life of a rockin' librarian

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self, book review

The book for which my wife has written a chapter, A Day in the Life: Career Options in Library and Information Science , is now available. And her chapter is excerpted on the information page online.

May 2
May 2 Be careful what you launch - Bill Ives

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blogs

About three years ago, I had an interesting email and phone conversation with Bill Ives, who found me through this blog. A few weeks later (four years ago, as it turns out), Bill launched his blog, Portals and KM, and it is still going strong.

May 1
May 1 My American Accent

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self, random fun

My friend Girl Detective is from the Midwest and her lack of accent gives her away. Me too. This quiz asks 19 questions about how you pronounce various words in relation to one another.

May 1
May 1 KM Chicago: Knowledge Cafe on May 8th

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events, knowledge management

KM Chicago's May 8th meeting will be a knowledge cafe: Knowledge Cafe on Key Enablers.

Apr 30
Apr 30 Question: do search engines look at tags

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Apr 30
Apr 30 FlickrBlockrs - keep yourself off Flickr

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Apr 30
Apr 30 Online participation numbers in detail

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Apr 27
Apr 27 How big is the internet?

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Apr 25
Apr 25 Just turn the arrows around

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Apr 25
Apr 25 Blink

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Apr 25
Apr 25 Paradoxical arithmetic

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