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PIM Book overload part 2: Keeping Found Things Found – The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management by William Jones
And another one! Books on PIM are just like London buses! “Keeping Found Things Found” is by William Jones at UW (where does he find the time? ;-), and shares its title with the research group where he works. I’m working … Continue reading
PIM Book overload part 1: Personal Information Management by William Jones, Jaime Teevan, and a cast of thousands
Well, all of a sudden, there’s a lot of books on Personal Information Management. William Jones at UW has been particularly productive! The first book is called “Personal Information Management”, and is an collection of papers by many of the top researchers in … Continue reading
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PIM Workshop at CHI2008 – accepted papers
Accepted papers have been announced for the Personal Information Management workshop at CHI2008 in Florence. Loads of good stuff (see full list of accepted papers), but here’s a few highlights which caught my eye: “Evaluating Personal Information Management Using an … Continue reading
PIM as peformance art – list slammin’
Two list slams are happening next week in the SF Bay Area c/o Sasha Cagen: Tues., Jan. 8, 7:30 pm, Modern Times Books, 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco Thur., Jan. 10, 7 pm, Red Hill Books, 401 Cortland Avenue, San … Continue reading
Personal information heath – 2 stories from the NY Times
Not one but two stories in this week’s Health section (yes, yes, I know I’m getting to that age when I don’t throw Health sections straight in the recycling bin!) A Clutter Too Deep for Mere Bins and Shelves – … Continue reading
Personal information culture – Sasha Cagen’s To-do List
Sasha Cagen, a near-neighbour of mine in San Francisco, has published a book all about to-do lists – To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us. One of my complaints about HCI … Continue reading
MyLifeLots – Gordon Bell in the New Yorker
Its not every day that PIM makes it into the hallowed pages of the New Yorker. Well, May 28’s New Yorker has an interview with Gordon Bell of MyLifeBits fame – a “lifelogging” project which is archiving a stream of … Continue reading
New book on Personal Information Management
I’m excited to blog about a new book on Personal Information Management from MIT Press which summarizes a lot of recent research in the field, “Beyond the Desktop Metaphor – Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments“. I’m especially excited since I … Continue reading
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Personal Information Management workshop at SIGIR 2006 – papers and posters online
The organisers of the Personal Information Management workshop at SIGIR 2006 in Seattle have released the submitted position papers and posters. No less than 32 accepted submissions which is amazing for a field which was extremely quiet only a matter … Continue reading
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Personal Information Management Research – its all happening in the Pacific Northwest
One thing that always puzzled me during my PhD (which I successfully moved on from in 2004), was the relative lack of academic research being carried out on the area of Personal Information Management (PIM). Its something most computer users … Continue reading
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