June 19, 2008
The Brain Mind Mapping Software: Almost Good Enough to Change the World
Hi folks,
I have gotten tired of waiting for a search engine friendly indexing solution for the amazing "Brain" mind mapping software.
Many of you have seen me use this software for several Theme Zoom presentations. I have expressed how this R-directed thinking method can be used to organized non-linear systems and how it is probably not only the future of search . . . but also the future of knowledge structure and overview.
The future challenge for social media, folksonomy and data-overload will be the re-organization of L-directed hierarchical data structures into user-friendly non-linear R-directed webs.
As a result I have started to look into programming my own solution that will take The Brain HTML output and create a search-engine-friendly website with the graphical non-linear interface still in tact.
What good is having a brain if the world cannot search it? ; - )
An example of a non-search engine friendly HTML output from The Brain software is my 5-Neuro website called Russell's Brain.
I contacted the folks at "The Brain" and clearly they have their minds on the big picture and are probably moving towards some sort of liquidity event or buyout situation. But I am only guessing about this. The consumer-grade software is only a small piece of the larger systems being developed by these folks.
Historian James Burke uses the brain as well:
My point is that I would prefer Mr. Burke's personal brain connections over Wikipedia's because I know the source of the connections being made. Therefore is is the Neuro-geometry that becomes more important than general co-occurrence predictors within a given specialized topic or theme.
Remember that silo-structure when it comes to SEO is simply a way of choosing top level themes? Silo structure gets a bad rap in the corporate industrial establish because it implies a "disconnection" between departments- or L-directed thinking isolated from the creative gifts that metaphor brings. (Left Brain Isolation). The word metaphor has its roots in "to go accross" or "cross over". It is almost as if we are crossing over from one side of the brain to the other and then back- to embrace, as a culture, a Whole New Mind.
- Russell
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