links for 2007-03-21

A nice review of a new sci­en­tif­ic paper man­age­ment tool devel­oped for Mac OS X by two Dutch­men and poised to win some awards.

Fun short inter­view with the guru of flow Mihaly Csik­szent­mi­ha­lyi. He points to some inter­est­ing ways web sites can be improved to induce flow (guid­ing users and giv­ing more feed­back amongst them.)

Excel­lent post by Kathy Sier­ra sum­ming up three impor­tant rea­sons Twit­ter (and oth­er rich pres­ence ser­vices requir­ing con­tin­u­ous par­tial atten­tion) might be harm­ful. These ser­vices cer­tain­ly chal­lenge the abil­i­ty of the user to *focus*.