Monday morning and post #2. Over the weekend I have been reading a little book called Bit Literacy. The basic thesis of the book is that all the bits of information that we now receive are causing us stress and loss of productivity because we have not learned the technology and discipline to assist us in managing all this information. The author is Phil Terry and his company's website is www.creativegood.com
A couple of things that I am going to explore are the use of a Dvorak keyboard (supposedly more efficient and easier) and a few of the organizational suggestions he makes. For instance he advocates clearing your email to ZERO each day by filing and deleting. He also advocates a specific filing system and that we begin to think of the information coming in as our "media diet" and that we need to consciously decide what we consume.
Did you know that you can type some math into the google search bar and get a calculation and calculator?
Thought you might be interested in a browser called flock which allows you to get social networking, media sharing, blogging, favorites and webmail all in one browser. It basically allows you to consolidate all of your existing accounts that it supports into one browser. For example, I can check my gmail, view or upload photos to Picasa and follow your blog all in one place. Free. Just search for flock browser.
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