Information Foraging.

Information Foraging: "Information foraging is the most important concept to emerge from Human-Computer Interaction research since 1993. Developed at Xerox PARC by Stuart Card, Peter Pirolli, and colleagues, information foraging uses the analogy of wild animals gathering food to analyze how humans collect information online."

[elearnspace blog]

I think you could make a pretty easy argument linking the upsurge in weblog popularity to how well tuned they are to supporting effective information foraging. Add in good aggregators and perhaps we have the first hints of the knowledge economy equivalent of the transition from hunter-gatherer cultures to agriculture.

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Matrix Reloaded -- the abridged script.

Whether you liked Matrix Reloaded or not, this version of the script is a must-read. Watch out for the best part of it close to the end, when Neo meets "The Explainer". Hilarious.

[d2r]

Parody is the sincerest form of flattery? A nice find from Diego Doval of d2r

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