Today I attended this panel talk:
THIS CONVERSATION IS BEING BLOGGED: Our lives, online, all the time, in the trend towards lifelogging
I will write mainly from my own experience of maintaining a personal journal blog on the web for the past seven+ years, and being involved in a network of other personal bloggers for almost as […]

Towards memory supporting personal information management tools
David Elsweiler, Ian Ruthven, Christopher Jones
Abstract
In this article, the authors discuss reretrieving personal information objects and relate the task to recovering from lapse(s) in memory. They propose that memory lapses impede users from successfully refinding the information they need. Their hypothesis is that by learning more about memory lapses […]

I filled up the entire journal re-shelving shelf with print journals from which I copied papers not available online.
I think I gave myself “stapling elbow.”
Now home to update the Procite db, eat, and read read read.
  

A day in the life of a (dissertating) academic.
8:36 Time to dissertate! Stare at piles of books. Read through last four or five pages written yesterday. Despair at own stupidity. Stare at piles of books.
  

Casey Bisson writes about his crisis in the preservation of his digital collections.
This is also a topic that keeps me up at night. Not just because I’m paranoid about losing my own personal history (I document and track everything on my laptop, in addition to keeping and collecting projects, photos, correspondence, music, videos, and more), […]

Getting around to reading the Brief Meeting Summary of the Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data Meeting on March 8, 2007 in Mountain View, CA by Nancy J. Fallgren.
Some thoughts pop up, not even necessarily about bibliographic control…
1. The need for good, browseable representations of domains of knowledge that can be incorporated into our systems. […]

Encyclopedia of cognitive science / editor-in-chief, Lynn Nadel.
London ; New York : Nature Pub. Group, 2003.
Description: 4 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents : v. 1. Academic achievement - Environmental psychology - v. 2. Epilepsy - mental imagery, philosophical issues about - v. 3. Mental models - signal detection theory - […]

via Paul Jones (scan of official document on his blog):
North Carolina
House of RepresentativesCertificate of
Acknowledgement and Congratulations
Whereas, October 31, 2007 will be the 15th anniversary of the first public demo of sunsite.unc.edu, which is now known as iBiblio.org; and
Whereas, the iBiblio website digital repository and community have become cultural treasures of the state of North Carolina, […]

My (quite new) laptop didn’t want to start up this morning. So instead of working on going through all the abstracts I downloaded yesterday, I’m running diagnostics on the computer. All crossable appendages crossed.
That’s today’s productivity killer.
Yesterday’s was using the record export features of ISI’s citation databases to tranfer all those records I should be […]

Rozin P, Ashmore M, Markwith M
Lay American conceptions of nutrition: Dose insensitivity, categorical thinking, contagion, and the monotonic mind
HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 15 (6): 438-447 NOV 1996
Abstract: Two studies explored Americans’ tendency to simplify nutrition information. Substantial minorities of separate samples of college students, physical plant workers, and a national sample considered a variety of substances, […]