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  • Listen everyone, I gotta come out to you all … I am now officially an outliner. For a long time I thought that outlines, like all hierarchical documents, were limited and inferior to graph-shaped wikis. Now I get it. The point of the outliner is not the hierarachical structure as a navigation aid – free-form…

  • Sig : You talk to one person. You lunch with one purchaser. You present for one or more, same Powerpoint. Why the difference? It’s all about people and a person is singular, always.

  • David Brin has a nice post summarizing his vision for “what we need from science” : Given the daunting range of problems and opportunities that we face, I’d have to say that our most urgent scientific and technological need is to develop better methods for problem-solving. Some pieces to the puzzle are already getting attention.…

  • Q : Phil! Why have you put a Grazr widget in your gutter? A : Something’s happening. And it’s about OPML, Grazr, and widgets … 😉 Q : Oh, and I noticed you changed the template. A : Er … yeah. The look didn’t go with the widget. I wanted something that was more, I…

  • Cool video showing WikiCalc embedding YouTube. And showing several evolving lines of thought in the multiple texts being created.

  • Bleaahhhgh! Least inspiring Hughtrain cartoon evah!

  • There’s a new crop of business wikis. And some interesting discussion. But what’s wrong with this picture? SystemOne, an enterprise-knowledge-management system masquerading as an ordinary business wiki. What’s cool about this product is that it automatically creates, at the bottom of each page, a list of relevant other wiki pages, feeds, and Web search results.…

  • Joel Spolsky on a good hack : I think what makes a good hack is the observation that you can do without something that everybody else thinks you need. To me, the most elegant hack is when somebody says, “These 2,000 lines of code end up doing the same thing as those 2 lines of…

  • When I wrote SdiDesk I explicitly decided that I wanted many small, hand-layed-out diagrams which are hyperlinked together, rather than automatically generating a large diagram. (Of course, it helped that that was the lazy thing to do, in terms of coding 🙂 Manually drawing diagrams doesn’t help with *discovery* of new connections or of other…

  • ZenPundit on Super-empowered individuals