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Mindmapping Software Survey

Nick Duffill points to Chuck Frey’s report on his survey of mind-mapping tool use. Chuck sums up the issues preventing wider take-up of this sort of software: These responses seemed to be concentrated around a few specific issues: Lack of time to promote the use of mind mapping software to managers and coworkers, lack of awareness of [...]

Testing Compendium and the Illusion of Explanatory Depth

Trying out the Compendium software leads to a speculation about how little most of us normally dig into a given area of knowledge...

Hypertasking

Ming links to this article about research into “Hypertasking” which suggests that although frantic multi-tasking (with the help of phones, IM, email, feeds, etc., etc., etc.) has the appearance of productivity the reality is of significantly reduced performance on the individual cognitive tasks. This is not the first study to suggest that multi-tasking makes [...]

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