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[Qualia] Clive Thompson’s latest article in The New York Times Magazine is well worth the time it takes to read it. The article covers a field of research that studies how our work is interrupted.

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business2blog business2blog: You've gotta love this bit of background: The two programmers who wrote this app together met and interacted with each other online. Only once the application was up and running did they realize that they lived . (via Cosmos)

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David Allen[David Allen] NY Times Mag article today on Life Hackers: By a sizable margin, life hackers are devotees not of Microsoft but of Apple, the company's only real rival in the creation of operating systems - and a company that has often seemed to intuit the need for software that reduces the complexity of the desktop. When Apple launched its latest operating system, Tiger, earlier this year, it introduced a feature called Dashboard - a collection of glanceable programs, each of which performs one simple function, like displaying the weather.

Geeking with Greghttp://glinden.blogspot.com [Geeking with Greg] Attention and life hacking: has been building networks equipped with artificial intelligence (A.I.) that carefully observes a computer user's behavior and then tries to predict that sweet spot - the moment when the user will be mentally free and ready to be interrupted.

[Qualia.information-theory.net] Qualia: Anyway…this, as Patricia Churchland points out in her book on neurophilosophy, Brain-Wise, means most modern philosophers (and many cognitive scientists) subscribe to functionalism, rather than reductionism, at least when it comes to the mind/brain. They are not reductionists, because they do not believe that matters of the mind can be reduced to neuroscience, or that understanding the brain is essential to understanding the mind.

Glinden.blogspot.comhttp://glinden.blogspot.com [Glinden.blogspot.com] Geeking with Greg: Other techniques for getting the crap out include editor review of recent changes (Wikipedia, Craigslist), asking your users to report abuse (Craigslist, MSN Spaces, Blogger), user moderation (Slashdot), relevance rank to suppress poor content (Google Blog Search, all web search engines), and personalization to elevate content that interests you (Findory).

Radio.weblogs.com[Radio.weblogs.com] Bruce Landon's Weblog for Students: "SightSpeed uses an innovative approach to video calling by emphasizing and retaining the information the human eye and ear care the most about. Utilizing advanced research from Cornell University's DISCOVER Lab, SightSpeed brings to everyday people an experience previously available only in complex systems costing thousands of dollars.

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