WHISTLING COW'S
INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FOR THE INDIVIDUAL
DIRECTORY
Editorial comment by Whistling Cow's CEO, Kipp Elliott Watson
Editorial comment:
There can be no doubt that we are transitioning from the Industrial Age to the Information Age and at the core of this transformation is the Internet. This particular tumult places Microsoft, according to any number of pundits, in a squeeze between the community of open source coders on one side and Google on the other. Why Google, when other giant corporations have access to vastly greater capital? As measured by public demand, it is readily apparent that Google has come up with the four billion or so variables needed to effectively sort between gibberish and meaningful responses to search requests. Sure, clever people will continue to try to outsmart Google's search algorithms, create "information" (like the content of this Journal?) and hitch their wagons to higher and more valuable page ranks. As surely as an uninhibited onslaught of keywords will no longer gain favor, you can bet that Search Engines will continue to evolve and gain a greater and greater role as we enter the Information Age.
What is beyond the portals of the Search Engines? As people (from the largest corporation to the individual) gain greater access to the information they need, there will surely be a greater need to manage information. A cursory review of the current theories of information management shows that academia, once again, is in the forefront of revolutionary change. Academia is developing the intellectual framework that will engender commercial and non-commercial mechanisms for the management of information. The thrust of these scholarly endeavors, however, is heavily skewed towards the physics of information propagation (e.g., "information theory") and the HR and IT concerns of the largest corporations (e.g., "data mining"). There is little, if any, scholarship dedicated to the information management needs of the very individuals who are propelling us into the new era dominated by the phenomenon of the Internet.
Hence, the impetus for this forum, which Whistling Cow is honored to host. Informative, creative and provocative submissions on the subject of Information Management for the Individual are welcome here and will be featured in future issues of this Journal. This opportunity, however, can only be enabled by independent volunteer peer reviewers who provide the counter-balance needed for intelligent dialogue. So, contact us. Let us know if you want to make a submission or if you volunteer to be a peer reviewer. At the very least, to help this fledgling forum out, why not forward this Journal to everyone you can think of? (of whom you can think?).
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Submissions:
Instead of spending time in Uruguay on March 13 through 17, 2006, why don't you brainstorm a bit and come up with the manifesto for the information rights of the masses, er, we meant to say individuals, and submit it to this Journal? Actually, any intelligent discussion of an issue relating to the subject of Information Management for the Individual will do. If suitable for publication, your submission will be featured in a future issue of this Journal. Now, Al Gore. Are you paying attention?
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Volunteer to be a peer reviewer:
The apparent and actual integrity and ultimate success of this forum depends on a cadre of volunteer peer reviewers. Is this your calling in life? To be in the midst of the dialogue of the very ideas that will lead us into the Information Age? Don't be shy. We know you're out there. Contact us.
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About Whistling Cow:
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Products:
KronoLog, widely acclaimed as "the information manager for the information age." www.kronolog.com.
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Contact us:
Maybe you would like to submit something for future publication in this Journal. Maybe you'd like to become a volunteer peer reviewer. Maybe you have something else on your mind. Contact us!
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Geeks only:
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