Ming links to this article about research into “Hypertasking” which suggests that although frantic multi-tasking (with the help of phones, IM, email, feeds, etc., etc., etc.) has the appearance of productivity the reality is of significantly reduced performance on the individual cognitive tasks. This is not the first study to suggest that multi-tasking makes you perform less well – for example this, this and this. In the comments to Ming’s post there are a range of views expressed but two themes emerge:
It is the nature of mind to filter experience through the most recent or most strongly held concepts. No wonder then that after (finally) coming across “Reed’s Law”:https://www.reed.com/Papers/GFN/reedslaw.html thanks to “this”:https://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2004/08/reeds_law_and_t.html thought-provoking article by “Robert Paterson”:https://smartpei.typepad.com/ I shortly noticed these two: Adina Levin in “describing”:https://alevin.com/weblog/archives/001477.html the recent “experiments”:https://alex.halavais.net/news/index.php?p=794 to test Wikipedia’s resilience spots that the real power of Wikipedia’s “defensive techniques”:https://frassle.rura.org/wikipediaShowsIts lies in the effect they have of turning the site into a warren of virtual neighborhoods
I’ve started collecting my ideas about integrating blog and wiki at [bliki]WikiBlogIntegration[/bliki]. Note to self to review what “Ton”:https://www.zylstra.org/blog/ is “up to”:https://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/001390.html …
See [bliki]TikiWikiHasGone[/bliki] for details.
Another modern parenting milestone – my daughter has her first blog…
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).
Amy Gahran writes about the power of context – How Arranging Ideas Spawns New Ideas – to stimulate new thoughts around a subject: No idea exists in a vacuum. It is connected to related ideas, and to the real world, and to other people’s perspectives. Those connecting threads of context are where the vast creative potential of the human mind lies. cite=”https://blog.contentious.com/archives/000288.html” The idea that the mind works associatively is pretty well established – amongst many other things it’s the key behind mind mapping.
I’ve added a “second wiki”:https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/blog/wiki/ for no particularly good reason other than I saw how the anonymous author of Weblog Tools Collection had “integrated”:https://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/07/05/wordpress-12-wiki-integration/ [bliki]ErfurtWiki[/bliki] into WordPress and decided I wanted one too! This one is just for me – a different sort of publishing space without the time-bound nature of the blog but closely integrated into it. I shall still keep the original, more fully-featured “Tiki-based”:https://tikiwiki.org/ “wiki”:https://www.synesthesia.co.uk/tiki/ for more collaborative or “major” bits of writing – not quite sure what the difference between the two areas is but they feel as if they both have a place…
Over at “Davos Newbies”:https://www.davosnewbies.com/ Lance Knobel is writing about “the lure of the slide rule”:https://www.davosnewbies.com/2004/07/08#theLureOfTheSlideRule: bq. “Those of us who love slide rules are by definition not Luddites. It’s the tactile nature of the technology that excites, rather than a revulsion against the technologies that replaced it. There were gains provided by electronic calculators. Our work, lives and society are being dramatically transformed – and I believe generally improved – through near-ubiquitous computing.
Does that TV show seem familiar? Check out those recurrent themes at the “TV Tropes Wiki”:https://tvwiki.sytes.net/