Steven Johnson has a new article in the New York Times Book Review that discusses how new desktop search technologies enable (or stimulate) connections across our own writing, notes, published work, etc. I tend to write this way, but finding the paths has been tricky. Faster desktop searching has really been a great help. If something like Google Desktop would just search stickies, notes, and other types of files where it's more convenient to collect stuff, we'd have something.

Dave

Tool for Thought
By STEVEN JOHNSON
Published: January 30, 2005
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30JOHNSON.html

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