I'm a "beyond search" entrepreneur, now at iCurrent. I was a HCI/CS researcher at PARC and spun out Inxight, now part of SAP. Formally, I studied computer science at MIT, but I range broadly. Say: Shoestring Traveler, TED-ster, Runner, Reader, Designer, Builder.

This site houses postings, publications, and presentations, mostly on the topic of Information Flow. The topic has been my life's passion, and so as you might guess, the border between professional and personal can get blurred on occasion.

The pursuit is about getting value from all the stuff (information, data, content, knowledge) we've put into the digital world. More grandly, it's about how information flow supported by computers and the Internet can make us more broadly intelligent, individually and collectively. Various disciplines and subjects are relevant:

• Knowledge Work and Workers -- workers, workplaces, and how knowledge work really happens
• Information Visualization and Design -- using visual techniques and graphic design to increase the bandwidth of interaction
• Text Analytics Technologies -- linguistic/statistical methods for categorizing, organizing, analyzing, and tagging content
• Information Science and Architecture -- organizing information for access and use
• Software Architecture and Design -- how representation, computation, and infrastructure impact information access
• Power Tools -- tools for individuals that enhance productivity and make them smarter, more informed, more creative
• Broader, Wilder -- the broader design, business, and cultural context and the wilder edge that reveal possible futures

See and Go Manifesto [Sept 1999, Interaction Magazine] Written as a reflection on the power of "wide widgets" aimed at the user interface research and development community, but given that wide widgets still haven't been fully absorbed into mainstream graphical user interfaces, it's still a bit of a rallying cry.

From Unstructured Data to Actionable Intelligence [Nov 2003, IEEE IT Professional] Describes the key beyond search technologies of categorization, extraction, and visualization. Also covers an abstract architecture for using these and the applications in leading areas of government intelligence, electronic publishing, and pharma research.

See more, including research papers, at Sensemaking.