
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.
RAMBLINGS
Ramble on to the Information Flow
blog here or my broader,
personal, playful
Vox blog
NEWSLETTER
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META
Welcome
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
Selected Articles
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.
LINK TRAILS
Feel free to track links I share using delicious. I use a few
particular tags to provide focused trails.
Related to main topic of Information Flow
Reading that I find interesting enough to point out to others
IRREGULARS
The
Enterprise
Irregulars is a group of former or current investors,
analysts, consultants, journalists, and entrepreneurs. Most
are bloggers, though I'm a true "irregular" in this regard.