Archives for March 2005
Urge people to blog?
Here is yet another teacher’s account describing his efforts to involve people in blog discussions, to balance participation, “to activate the long tail”. I think, when people are urged or even mandated to blog, the novel phenomenon is thoroughly misrecognized. Read more…
Radial, incremental, revisable
Last week I learned about a cognitive styles difference that I had not known before: “Radial” vs. “Cartesian” (M2M). While the latter is more absolutely oriented, the former focusses on relative, incremental, change. The incremental, preliminary characteristics, the revisability and rearrangeability is very important for me. Read more…
Desktop usage habits
I have described now quite a lot of my tool-using habits, but have yet to conclude this by covering the basic desktop usage. More…
Paper usage habits
Many bloggers described their use cases where they prefer paper and pencil to keyboard and mouse. I often use a primitive tool that emulates paper’s immediacy affordance best. More…
Data, Information, Knowledge
Many bloggers have discussed the difference of “data”, “information”, and “knowledge”. Here is my attempt …
My unsufficient cognitive tools
Description of a visualization technique usage scenario which could be much more effective with improved tools. Read more…
Tree structures with creative appeal
D. Grey explains concept maps vs. mind maps and shows examples. As often, I find the mind map more appealing and creatively stimulating than the other example, although it is a restricted tree structure. Why is that? I experimented with several versions and considered the Boettger distance. Read more …
