The other day Shawn pointed me towards some interesting data collection and organizational tools for the FireFox web browser. Zotero, is the name of this handy little beast. It lets you do a lot of library science nerd type of stuff to your information. Which is great if you’re a library science nerd (and I’d like to encourage a proliferation of them, myself).

But the thing I have been realizing about my own information usage patterns is that they are highly emotional, as opposed to highly logical. Whenever I try to sit down and categorize things, it just ends up breaking apart. It will work for a little while, but not forever. I’ve never heard anybody talk about that in relation to library science (though my formal knowledge of that area is woefully lacking, so let me be obligingly corrected!). Maybe I am really just organizing according to a different type of logical system though, and I am just not yet quite able to articulate what that is. I am taking steps towards a fuller expression of that as we speak.