Stephen Wolfram: ‘I’m an information pack rat’

Newscientist has an interview with Stephen Wolfram online. Stephen Wolfram reckons he can model the entire universe using tiny computer programs. But despite being the creator of a “search engine” that provides answers, he still has to convince his peers that he’s on the right track, as David Cohen discovers He is the author of […]

A Day in the Internet

Online Education – the stuff they don’t teach you in college – has a very impressive infograph on daily internet-traffic:

Cover it Live.

Live Blogging with Cover It Live! CoveritLive is the world’s best live event software, with advanced features to engage and excite your Readers! Well…these are their own words, but I think they are right. Today I gave CoveritLive a little testdrive and, there appear to be no limits. On this page you can find all […]

Nozbe + Evernote

Online GTD Application Nozbe integrates from now on with Evernote, the online Notebook app. You can now browse and manage your Evernote notes inside Nozbe when getting your projects and contexts done! On Nozbe’s website is also a good 10-part video instruction on how to use GTD.

I’m on Wave!

Finally I have my Google Wave invitation! Now I have to find out what the fuzz is all about. Reading the Google Wave Blog and watching some videos is fine, of course. The best way to get started is to get started, and the best way to learn things is by doing things, so I […]

Tiddly-FamilyTree

These days, people are still having babies by old-school sexual reproduction, so you want to know who your progenitors are and where you stand in the family tree. This post is about genealogy software. I only use a family tree for my Albert Lortzing-project, the German composer of “,Spieloper“, and for this the great program […]

NoteStorm

NoteStorm is a specially configured TiddlyWiki, with some great extra features. It is, in developer Dave Gifford’s own words, a TiddlyWiki adaptation that lets you add topics to a treeview index with one click, then lets you add subtopics and notes with one click as well, so that as you take notes they are automatically […]

Cloud Intelligence

Earlier I wrote on Cloud Computing, like Airset, iCloud, EyeOS and Glide) but now we have also Cloud Intelligence. In the cloud of connections, we each become social neurons, mimicking the biological human brain but on a giant scale. This collective knowledge is far beyond anything a single search engine could index and archive. Intelligence […]

Creately – collaborative flowchart software

Creately is an online diagramming and design application. It’s easy, collaborative and smart. You can draw and design almost anything from flowcharts, sitemaps, wireframes, UML to business process diagrams and computer networks, using Creately on your web browser. Via LifeHacker, TechCrunch.Wikipedia article on Flowcharts.

Autistic Pride Day

In the beginning there was Gay Pride Day. Then there was Nerd/Geek Pride Day. Now, there is also an Autistic Pride Day. Autism is “not a pathological condition or a disease, but a way of life that possesses a culture and history all its own”, said Valerie Paradiz, who has Asperger’s syndrome, in The Guardian. […]

  • The Aesthetics and Beauty of Knowledge

    Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.

    – David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993

  • Geek Attitude

    The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
    Definitely the only way to travel.
    Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.