Inside View

Told to Get a COVID Test

THE REPORTING OF more than 600 daily cases of Covid-19 for the first time since late April was a “cause of concern”, the chief medical officer warned today, the same day we were notified by a close contact that she had COVID. A few hours later, a text message offered us a tracking number to be used when we presented to take our COVID tests a few miles away.

A Community Using Audio Glue

I'm working with conversational glue at the end of June 2021. I made an audio clip while reflecting on things I've done that are going to stay with me long after the annual audiomo challenge passes into the next year.

Listen to "I Enjoyed The Conversational Glue #audiomo E568" on Spreaker.

The most import thing I learned in this 11th year of audiomo is that there are dimensions of communications that are more constructive when they have a community building dynamic. In this case, the self-organising community of audiomo binds together by a conversational glue.

Audiomo Live Session

I met up with Josh O’Farrell Hurley using Zoom during audiomo, a monthly social audio challenge. We created two video clips, one for Twitter that also went to Josh’s Soundcloud account and another for Flickr. The one for Twitter was similar to a clip Ray Garraud and Ernie Hartley made using their Backpack Studio app. You can also create threaded audio commentary by using Limor or Swell.

Soundwave Knight · AudioMo 2021 Day #23

Updating ORCID

I HAVE HUNDREDS of newspaper clippings and Moleskine journals that must be folded into my ORCID profile. So I am using up to an hour a day culling old records and inserting materials into my online researcher profile.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3431-0747

Building a Second Brain #BASB

 

I'm listening to Daniel Schimpke while trying to reduce my tool stack for my Personal Knowledge Management setup. The goal is to make it simple and create value for my own content creation. Here are some things I'm reviewing while planning to build a second brain.

• Using @readwiseio while reading anything on paper a paper book so I can digitise at source instead of adding to my stash. Readwise will give me quotes on a daily basis, helping me remember things that have real value.
• Capture. Organise. Distill. Express.
• PARA: Projects. Areas. Resources. Archives.

• I must tame my downloads folder. It is the primary source of information bloatage.
• Groom notes so they make sense to my daughter in 20 years time.
• Prefix the notes you add to a page with a full stop because that triggers @Readwiseio to inject a tag to the note.
• Visit my archives because when they are dusted off in regular intervals, they uncover truly actionable messages.

• Share part of your flow with members of a small group. I call my special group 4C.
• In the morning, I ask myself what was the top takeaway of the previous day. I'm restarting this process as part of my Topgold Audio Clips.

Listen to "The Rigor Of Transmedia Production E534 #digped" on Spreaker.

Editor's Note: I've been working at this second brain initiative for more than 1m page views of my blog.

 

[Bernie Goldbach teaches creative media for business on the Clonmel Digital Campus.]

That's @otter_ai hooking directly into @roamresearch h/t @dvargas92495

You're reading a blog post that I made by using the Otter.AI speech-to-text service. Others have done that before--this time I've got a second brain working to create this post, thanks to David Vargas (above).

A Parent's View of the Virtual #ictedu Conference

I HAD A PARENT'S VIEW ON SATURDAY, May 15, 2021, watching the virtual ICT in Education Conference unfold. I spotted three things as a parent, an educator, and an organiser.

Journaling with Speech Bubbles and Keyboard Entries

I TEACH JOURNALING to Media Writing students and for the next three years I plan to enhance that creative process with a few specific tips. One is to require a double spread page of speech bubbles and another task is to show a page that emerges from text input on a keyboard. I believe the Media Writing Journals I will review will have greater creative content at the end of the semester.

The Pandemic Fought the Infodemic #WeAreKinzen

PROPS TO THE KINZEN team for showing me how to fight an infodemic during the pandemic. Throughout my lockdown days, I've been a regular reader of curated content from Kinzen. I've avoided disinformation campaigns and learned to recognise dangerous content well before my online friends.

Enjoying e-mail Exports from @readwise.io

I'VE LEARNED A LOT from reviewing content I keep inside Readwise. I occasionally share items from my Readwise as Twitter Fleets. Today I'm starting to review items I've highlighted that Readwise exported to me as a short summary. I think these are some of my Readwise Favorites. I'm trying to see whether these items also appear in content I swipe and review in the Readwise app.