Google Notebook is Useful

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Show-N-Tell Chronicles
Although I started using the note collection feature of the free online Office Live Workspace at this year’s beginning I have subsequently switched to Google Notebook. From the perspective of building a centralised notebook repository Google Notebook is more feature-rich.
Where meetings and conferences provide wi-fi access then Google Notebook [...]

Need Centralised IT Services?

It has taken me a while to catch up with the term ‘technology populism’. Sarah Perez in her post tells us this appeared in a Forrester report. It appears that technology populism means:
an adoption trend led by a technology-native workforce that self provisions collaborative tools, information sources, and human networks — requiring minimal or no [...]

Tracking the InfoWOE Project

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After mapping the action items of InfoWOE the next step is to define tasks, the domain of project management applications. For the Eee PC-as-Internet-device these need to be online and as simple as possible.
I have been a fan of the Ruby on Rails guys at 37signals for a number of years. They produce [...]

Mapping the Information Work Online Experiment

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In common with many people I reach for a mind map to assemble concepts and components into a cohesive structure. For InfoWOE this must be online despite my being a keen MindManager user for several years, at significant personal expense. A quick web search for free online mindmappers yielded mind42.com where I commenced [...]

Project Overview - Information Work Online Experiment

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With the Information Work Online Experiment project I hope to determine whether I can work productively with an unmodified inexpensive device like an ASUS Eee PC acting as a thin client over an Internet connection. This will very much be in the spirit of the Google Docs’ team blog entry about moving from [...]

Information Work Online Experiment

InfoWOE Post Collection
The Asus Eee PC and the XO are two examples of ultralight, low-cost laptops that in their initial versions use one of the many variants of the Linux operating system. The price of the Eee PC 701 with a 4 GB SSD made a purchase for me inescapable. From the outset I have [...]