those of you who know me well are aware that for years i’ve battled a rare disorder that continues to confound medical specialists the world over - amnesiatic bulimia…this is a condition in which i binge but then forget to make myself throw up (apparently common as men enter their thirties and confront the burden of metabolic changes but lack the attention span required to mitigate such risks effectively)…what i’ve now realized is that my research brethren are at risk as well - due to a strikingly similar professional plague: trying to keep track of everything that seems good on the internet….whether you are given to fits of wanton bookmarking or unbridled “print-this” urges, there is a cure…it’s called smart information resource management, archiving and annotation.

the research web guide is an example of one such effort (as in, keepin’ up with the best of what’s around)..but if you need to explore tools to manage this condition, i strongly suggest visiting a few specific research guide collections….the first is a collection of circa 37 applications, articles and resources to understand the world of web annotation, internet resource management (aka ‘professional bookmark management’) and new information themes (like the semantic web)…also have rounded up circa 33 applications that are focused on unstructured data management, competitive intelligence and what might be generally referred to as ‘workin’ smarter with the information you’ve now got’ ..and if you really wanna go off the deep end with this stuff, check out the technology trends in government-style open source intelligence gathering (research and analysis and related concepts)…

Powered by Gregarious (21)

Share This

Some similar nonsense, if you like that kind of thing:

Links that were in this post, but only if there were any: