Thanks for taking the time to comment.

My take on Paul’s context for “stuff” is that it is all-inclusive–not just junk, scraps, etc. There is a lot of valuable stuff around us, and it takes discipline to determine what is what. It’s that spirit of definition from which I draw my personal analogy to information. I’ve have significant amounts of valuable information in my direct possession and also accessible across the web. However, I probably also have a great deal of less-important information that I treat no differently, and this habit contributes to my sense of being overwhelmed by information.

Cheers,

-Craig

I work for EMC (Mercer Road) and the post with the link to the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods is very cool. I love that link more than I can tell you!

I’m not sure I agree with classifying information the way you can “stuff”…I would think information is different than stuff. Although, I guess you could have junk information just the same as junk stuff.

Maybe part of the problem is we are bombarded with junk information, and sometimes its hard to find the time to separate needed information from the junk. It’s also hard to know what we should discard, and what we should keep.

-Gina

You’re right–once the information in question is stored within Documentum and across EMC, there are significant tools that can be brought to bear on this problem of information overload and information relevance (e.g. InfoScape). For that matter, with DFS one can literally import the content of his or her hard drive into a content repository in just a few lines of code (i.e. Object Service create() method invocation). By associating Content Intelligence Services (CIS) at the time of import, you can out classify the imported content, too, for example.

Yes, I have read your email on relationship processing, and I owe you a reply. Thanks for the nudge. Cheers…

A week ago I heard a man talk about having 70 ties and spending an inordinate amount of time daily simply dressing himself appropriately. When looking at his $300 Mont Blanc pen, it occurred to him how that this pen did not have any real significance and never would. Having drastically simplified his life , he’s much happier.

How much of what I do has lasting value?

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a few things to throw away, give away, and delete.

Aren’t you supposed to have every possibility of handling the information stored digitally….or is it maybe a gap in the product line when it comes to local files stored on your laptop? I tried to get my partner to get me an install of Documentum on my laptop to be able to show it off but it turned out to be a bit complicated. Possible but more or less required a maxed-out laptop of the newest kind….

By the way, have you had any chance to read my email where I explained how we intended to use the relationship object?