I've been hearing that word lately all over the place...
Serendipity:
1) The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
2) The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
3) An instance of making such a discovery.
I described to a few del.icio.us RSS feeds and it's like a little piece of serendipity in my mailbox everyday.
Anyways, through that I discovered ITConversations which is a wonderful little audio archive of conference lectures. Interesting talks by Malcolm Gladwell, Alex Steffen, and others. (I've only gotten through a few of them but I'm sure that the other clips are equally engaging. And if you register, you can use the dandy "queue" tool to keep track of what you want to hear next).
I love this queue idea. I've muddled over the idea for a while since hypertext (while a god send) is extremely disruptive to narrative. I like the "InfoCollector" found on the Ars Electronica site. And Functioning Form has suggested another way to keep track of related weblog entries. Now if it could actually transcend one url......
Maybe that's where attention.xml comes in?
Information overload, oh my...
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