Scholarly paper on "information scraps"

Posted by Ken
Dec 11, 2008 at 09:24 PM

Well, I finished the article. Much of it is academic, but there were a few interesting nuggets here and there. The two that I found most interesting were the discussions about barriers related to “mobile information entry”, and a companion pice of software that they have released - list.it.

The first issue gets to the heart of my vacillating between PDA’s and possibly other MID’s like the Nokia tablet for convenience, and netbooks for access to a real keyboard and full programs like Ecco. I still have not opened up the netbook I brought home. It seems like what I want, but using something on a daily basis is a whole other affair. I guess I wonder if it is better to have a limited set of tools that you can easily carry (PDA or MID with limited software), or get used to carrying a larger device like a netbook that does the job. I hope Jan will weigh in on his experiences from his recent trip with a Samsung NC10.

The second item is a program that works in conjunction with Firefox called list.it. Here is the link: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/listit/ . It looks interesting, but I have not installed it on any machines yet.

—Ken