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Project: Personal Memex

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve had some down time the last couple days, and figure it was time to cleanup my public project list.  Most of my work this last year has been solely focusing on building my own Personal Knowledge Management system – my Personal Memex.  I’ve written a number of articles in recent months focusing on open…
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Knowledge Management Visualization Upgrades

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust discovered some exciting news from Semantic Media Wiki: SMW now supports Ploticus and Exhibit for powerful data visualizations. From http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/New_data_visualization_for_SMW:_Exhibit_and_Ploticus 22 Jan 2009. Semantic Result Formats (SRF), the add-on package for query formats in SMW, has just been extended with two great additions for powerful data visualisation: Ploticus and Exhibit. Both are available to…
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PhilosophersNotes: Get Your Wisdom On!

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBrian Johnson, entrepeneur and philosopher at heart, has created a new site/service called PhilosopherNotes. What is PhilosophersNotes? Think: Mini-CliffsNotes for Self-Development Books!

The 80 Best Lifehacks of 2008

Reading Time: 2 minutesPerfect timing since 2008 is quickly coming to a close. LifeHack recently posted an article: The 80 Best Lifehacks of 2008 And so we arrive yet again at the end of another year. 2008 was at best a mixed bag – while the world was electrified by the US election and it’s promise of change,…
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Integral Vision Mind Maps

Reading Time: 2 minutesLast year I picked up a copy of The Integral Vision by Ken Wilber. I recently decided to re-read the book, and created a comprehensive book summary highlighting the key pieces of information in the book. The book summary is presented in the form of mind maps for each chapter.

Kant and the Big Three

Reading Time: 2 minutesGood overview of Kant and the Reenchantment of the world from Wilber’s Marriage of Sense and Soul (pg. 86): “Critique of Pure Reason (written in 1781) relentlessly exposed the inadequacies of monological reason to grasp metaphysical truths, and it basically marked the dramatic and historical end of that type of metaphysics. The death of traditional…
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Some Important Modern Pioneers: Baldwin, Habermas, Aurobindo, and Maslow

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrom Integral Life: “In this excerpt from Integral Psychology, Ken Wilber honors some of the forerunners to his own model Integral theory and practice: James Mark Baldwin,  Jürgen Habermas, Aurobindo, and Abraham Maslow—intellectual giants upon whose shoulders we all stand…. Some Important Modern Pioneers: Baldwin, Habermas, Aurobindo, and Maslow From Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber…
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Topic Maps and the Semantic Web

Reading Time: < 1 minuteInteresting presentation of Topic Maps and the Semantic Web.  Plus, some background info on HyperText, Vannevar Bush, and the Memex. Topic Maps and the Semantic Web – Ontopedia Publish at Scribd or explore others: