Comments on: Total Information Awareness (for anthropologists) /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Bill Guinee /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/comment-page-1/#comment-593798 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:50:41 +0000 /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/#comment-593798 Actually there is a website where you can sign up for lots of anthro journals and they have the feeds for all of them there. Then you just have to visit the site regularly and (if you have made a free account) you can review them all at one time without cluttering your inbox. Check out ticTOCs at http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/

]]> By: gretchen /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/comment-page-1/#comment-292438 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:26:07 +0000 /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/#comment-292438 That service would be great, and not to hard, and take a little time to build. Oh, it would be cool. I agree that email is more accessible for a lot of people, and available for more journals. The major benefit of RSS, for me, is that it adds academic journals to my daily coffee-time perusal of oh, global commodities market news, and, uh, crochet patterns. In this way, adding the journals to my RSS is almost like smashing up vitamins into my pudding!

]]> By: Rex /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/comment-page-1/#comment-292408 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:55:21 +0000 /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/#comment-292408 I have a dream of creating a blog aggregating services that would give academics the option to sign up from a huge picklist of journals and get emailed TOCs from them. It would be child’s play to build but… I don’t have time.

For the record, a lot of more journals to email than RSS, and a lot more professors prefer email to learning a new tool like an RSS reader, so I did choose email as a delivery device for a reason.

]]> By: gretchen /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/comment-page-1/#comment-288777 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:48:08 +0000 /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/#comment-288777 Thanks for this Rex! Alerts are great, because they let you read through the TOC of all your relevant journals pretty quickly, and then add them to to-do lists (to be read or not read later). This is probably the best improvement I have made to my coffee drinking procrastination in YEARS. I use the RSS feeds for the journals I follow, and I read them on Google Reader, which makes it super easy to just star the articles I want to follow up on later (or sometimes I put the citation in zotero, with a note, if it is super relevant).

]]> By: Dave Snowden /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/comment-page-1/#comment-288562 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:00:15 +0000 /2008/04/13/total-information-awareness-for-anthropologists/#comment-288562 Better still – get a bunch of blogs like this one in your RSS feed and the filtering is done for you. As you build confidence cognitive load decreases unlike dealing with abstracts, and (god help us) summarisers.

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