Comments on: Building Your Expert List http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/building-your-expert-list/ The Read/Write Web in the Classroom Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:33:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Stephen Schaefer http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/building-your-expert-list/#comment-1795 Stephen Schaefer Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:53:14 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/building-your-expert-list/#comment-1795 <a></a>Given your take on the internet as a resource for someone to build a personal library of information, I'd like to point you to an app that does just that: DevonThink (it's a Mac-app...don't know if there's a plan for a Windows version). <a href="http://devon-technologies.com/" rel="nofollow">http://devon-technologies.com/</a> and here's a little piece about it's use by Steven Johnson, a writer: <a href="http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html</a> If you don't know about it, I think you'll find it interesting, as well as its sister app, DevonAgent. sps Given your take on the internet as a resource for someone to build a personal library of information, I’d like to point you to an app that does just that: DevonThink (it’s a Mac-app…don’t know if there’s a plan for a Windows version).

http://devon-technologies.com/

and here’s a little piece about it’s use by Steven Johnson, a writer:

http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/000230.html

If you don’t know about it, I think you’ll find it interesting, as well as its sister app, DevonAgent.

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]]> By: Gardner Campbell http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/building-your-expert-list/#comment-1794 Gardner Campbell Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:45:51 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/building-your-expert-list/#comment-1794 <a></a>Thanks, Will, and I agree completely--about all of it! In the end, the feeling is like that of walking into a major research library and feeling utterly overwhelmed by the massed array of human learning. Many PhD students have stopped dead in their tracks at that point. (Almost happened to me.) There's no way to keep up, but if the goal is not to keep up but to keep in, that may just be possible. Thanks, Will, and I agree completely–about all of it! In the end, the feeling is like that of walking into a major research library and feeling utterly overwhelmed by the massed array of human learning. Many PhD students have stopped dead in their tracks at that point. (Almost happened to me.) There’s no way to keep up, but if the goal is not to keep up but to keep in, that may just be possible.

]]> By: Chris Lehmann http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/building-your-expert-list/#comment-1793 Chris Lehmann Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:06:30 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/building-your-expert-list/#comment-1793 <a></a>I'm just, as we all have talked about at one point or another, finding myself a bit overwhelmed. And I am having a hard time starting to balance the reading I do online with the reading I do offline. Sure, my blogroll is reasonably caught up, but it's taken me two weeks to read Debbie Meier's latest book. I'm starting to feel like I cannot possible assimilate all the information I need to, regardless of organizational structure and new reading techniques. (And that's to say nothing of writing about it all...) I’m just, as we all have talked about at one point or another, finding myself a bit overwhelmed. And I am having a hard time starting to balance the reading I do online with the reading I do offline. Sure, my blogroll is reasonably caught up, but it’s taken me two weeks to read Debbie Meier’s latest book.

I’m starting to feel like I cannot possible assimilate all the information I need to, regardless of organizational structure and new reading techniques.

(And that’s to say nothing of writing about it all…)

]]> By: dave cormier http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/building-your-expert-list/#comment-1792 dave cormier Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:47:46 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/building-your-expert-list/#comment-1792 <a></a>I agree Will... i think that as bloggin becomes something that is a necessary part of every professional's life, we are going to need ways to find and sort those people who are consistently interesting, informative and provocative. Another instance of knowledge changing. We need to be able to find, sort, arrange and choose our reading. People like Stephen will become more and more powerful as they will become the people 'choosing' what 'should' be read. Imagine having a football stadium in your backyard, and have it full stacks of newspapers piled eight feet high, all of which you find interesting... that's where were going to be soon. The FOAF, social networking stuff will be the only way out... I agree Will… i think that as bloggin becomes something that is a necessary part of every professional’s life, we are going to need ways to find and sort those people who are consistently interesting, informative and provocative. Another instance of knowledge changing. We need to be able to find, sort, arrange and choose our reading. People like Stephen will become more and more powerful as they will become the people ‘choosing’ what ’should’ be read. Imagine having a football stadium in your backyard, and have it full stacks of newspapers piled eight feet high, all of which you find interesting… that’s where were going to be soon. The FOAF, social networking stuff will be the only way out…

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