PIM for Gecks

Now, this should be cause for waking up this wintered blog - two new books on PIM and ones, if I may be honored to mention, that I had the pleasure of proofreading in some ways.

Jones, W. (2008). Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

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Doing Today’s Job with Yesterday’s Tools - a Boxes and Arrows article by Patrick Dubroy. He writes about the problem of information fragmentation and suggests some solutions. ‘Been thinking about the same as I was creating a tutorial using Onfolio as a possible tool for information integration.

While waiting patiently for data to be sucked out of my old-model, really-dead laptop (on somebody’s kind, free service), I have decided to data-mine LibraryThing. [Yes, yours truly who blogs on PIM have yet to learn how to regularly back up her files.]
I want to know how groups and institutions are using LT…

Reference library for […]

Tim Spalding of LibraryThing was angry about unfree classification systems to which I commented here.
Incidentally, the ASIST 2006 Annual Meeting has a workshop on social classification.
Just to see what’s being studied about classification outside of the U.S., I found this site for the Annual Conference of the German Classification Society. Hmmn, heavy-duty stuff - classification […]

There are two things this week that made me think again of that existential question of “What is a document?” One was a presentation of the process and tool used to catalog video snippets and the other was a Time article on the personal letters of Einstein.
In the first instance, a raw video of […]

Call me unsupportive but my cataloger’s desk couldn’t bear having this immigrant away for a day. So it was that I marched instead up, down, and across the DDC hierarchy to make sense of today’s immigration protests, Galbraith’s death, and the woman whose house we helped paint last Saturday.
Galbraith argued for an economics that’s not […]

I woke up to a serene blanket of snow. The daffodils slightly hang their heads but still a show of yellow on white. I want to capture it but the camera is in Louisiana.
I blog like daffodils that burst between winter and spring then sleep long for the next change of seasons. There’s nothing that […]

Integrating personal documents residing in different web servers is generally easy with hyperlinks. But what happens when an individual no longer can maintain his documents in one server such as in the case of students graduating and losing access to their student web hosting account but still want their portfolio, for example, to be available […]