About Blog Day

I am told that today is Blog Day and that on Blog Day bloggers are supposed to blog about five blogs that they believe their readers will find interesting.

is getting pretty big, and ever since becoming a graduate student in Library and Information Science, I have been mostly adding library/infosci blogs. Thus, I find it strange that when I made this list of “five blogs that I think you should know about” there was just one library blog that made the cut.

Five Interesting Blogs That I Think You Should Know About

CogNews

News about Cognitive Science. This is the slashdot of cognitive science, with infrequent posting but excellent selection of content.

All In The Mind

Podcast from ABC (Australian Radio Station) about psychology. Really interesting 30 minutes podcasts. I highly recommend checking the archives for the recent interview with Daniel Dennet on Evolutionary Psychology and Religion and another recent episode on Stalking.

Junk Charts

I usually don’t like sites that just criticize other people’s work. However Junk Charts is special. It is a thoughtful and very productive criticism of data visualization (i.e. charts and graphs that are misleading or deceptive or just plain bad)

Statistical Graphs and Data Visualization

Despite the title sounding dull, this is a very exciting topic. If you have ever heard of or read Tufte, then you will undoubtedly find this site useful and interesting.

Unit Structures:: Fred Stutzman

Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student in Library and Information Science. He is by now becoming famous for his work on the adoption of Facebook by college students. If you search Google Video you will find that he has given a talk at Google about his research on facebook. His site also has some links to MP3 files of recent interviews he gave. His postings about his research are well worth reading.

Hi,

this just twigged something in my memory about a book that you recomended back when we met for coffeee right after I got back. Something about the Big B. or The LGV? It had to do with organization, possibly financial and time. You said inetlib had read it too.

You are thinking of GTD: Getting Things Done. It’s a book, but GTD is also a term you can use to search for stuff about getting organized. Search delicious, technorati, or bloglines for GTD for some interesting stuff (a fair bit of junk too).