Monthly Archives: October 2007

Note Taking Software

By Michael Becker | Published: October 14, 2007
Question for any­one out there: I’m look­ing for some­thing that’s like del.icio.us for tak­ing notes, but I don’t want to have to input a hyper­link. Basically, I want to be able to type a note and add a whole mess of tags (which will aut­ofill from my pre­vi­ously used tags) and save it, either locally [...]
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Information Idealism

By Michael Becker | Published: October 4, 2007
In an essay on Internet Evolution, Cory Doctorow writes that our var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nolo­gies have become less about com­mu­ni­ca­tion and more about selec­tive igno­rance. In other words, he argues that more atten­tion should be paid to ignorance. Compare this to my last post about the per­ils of per­fect mem­ory and the Internet’s hand in cre­at­ing [...]
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A Perfect Memory

By Michael Becker | Published: October 2, 2007
A recent arti­cle by Jessica Winter in the Boston Globe reminds us that the impor­tance of for­get­ting has not been forgotten. A phe­nom­e­non sup­pos­edly innate to the human mind, for­get­ting is becom­ing less com­mon as our capac­ity for dig­i­tal remem­ber­ing increases, threat­en­ing to make our “mem­ory” perfect. Wait, isn’t for­get­ting bad?
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