February 4, 2012
Leonard Cohen going home

Lyrics going home mindmapped including cross reference to Dylan’s Can’t wait. Strange line ‘a brief elaboration of a tube’ interpreted. Great song, great CD.

7:54am  |   URL: http://3dmindmapping.tumblr.com/post/17027060054/leonard-cohen-going-home
(Notes: 2)
  
Filed under: Cohen Dylan Going home mindmapping 
September 27, 2010
Bob Dylan’s metamorphoses I was intrigued by a call for papers for a Dylan conference to be held in Vienna, coinciding with the seventieth birthday of the musician, writer, painter, songwriter (may 2011). The main topic are ‘metamorphoses’ of Dylan. I have made a series of mindmaps on this theme. This one (click to enlarge) is considering the several personas of Dylan as a songwriter/musician. I have limited the number arbitrarily to 7. It is interesting to note that some phases, like the protesting, were transient (dylan only returned twice to the form of protest song: George Jackson and Hurricane), while others are continual, like the blues format (e.g. Lonesome day blues on Love and theft and many others) and the poetical power of Dylan’s songs throughout his career. Also the ‘new-morning-return-to-nature-built-me-a-cabin’ phase was transient. To my knowledge it did not return in any of Dylan’s song hereafter. Would love response: if you consider only 7 phases in Dylan’s songwriting and music, would you chose these seven? Other suggestions?Thanks to sometimes rhymes for input (http://www.sometimesrhymes.com) Illustration of North Country Blues is from Ellen Burkett (check out her drawings based on Dylan lyrics on http://shesanartistshedontlookback.blogspot.com)

Bob Dylan’s metamorphoses

I was intrigued by a call for papers for a Dylan conference to be held in Vienna, coinciding with the seventieth birthday of the musician, writer, painter, songwriter (may 2011). The main topic are ‘metamorphoses’ of Dylan. I have made a series of mindmaps on this theme. This one (click to enlarge) is considering the several personas of Dylan as a songwriter/musician. I have limited the number arbitrarily to 7. It is interesting to note that some phases, like the protesting, were transient (dylan only returned twice to the form of protest song: George Jackson and Hurricane), while others are continual, like the blues format (e.g. Lonesome day blues on Love and theft and many others) and the poetical power of Dylan’s songs throughout his career. Also the ‘new-morning-return-to-nature-built-me-a-cabin’ phase was transient. To my knowledge it did not return in any of Dylan’s song hereafter.

Would love response: if you consider only 7 phases in Dylan’s songwriting and music, would you chose these seven? Other suggestions?

Thanks to sometimes rhymes for input (http://www.sometimesrhymes.com)

Illustration of North Country Blues is from Ellen Burkett (check out her drawings based on Dylan lyrics on http://shesanartistshedontlookback.blogspot.com)

12:03am  |   URL: http://3dmindmapping.tumblr.com/post/1197818502/personasdylan
(Notes: 3)
  
Filed under: bob dylan mindmapping metamorphoses 
August 2, 2010
Fourteen information sources about mindmapping (click to enlarge). Check e.g. the neat (and complete) survey of software programs on aext.net or the wiki page on mindmapping.

Fourteen information sources about mindmapping (click to enlarge). Check e.g. the neat (and complete) survey of software programs on aext.net or the wiki page on mindmapping.

6:25am  |   URL: http://3dmindmapping.tumblr.com/post/892674678/infomindmapping
(Notes: 1)
  
Filed under: mindmapping information sources buskes 
July 29, 2010
Milestones and keystones in the history of mindmappingIt is still subject to debate. Who invented mindmapping? This mindmap (click to enlarge) ‘20 centuries of mindmapping’ gives a straight answer by looking at the ‘firsts’. The first notion of the term mind map you will find in the book of Charles Williams.The first mindmap is made by Walt Disney (not only great mindmap, but also the first cross medial strategy).The first radial concept is from Evelyn Wood. The first mindmap as we know it, is from Tony Buzan.The first mindmap book is by Tony Buzan.The first computer mindmap is from Peter Barrett.So I would say mindmapping has many fathers, only it is fair to say that Buzan pushed its popularity and making it into a mainstream technique as it is now. What I do want to stress, however, is that there are (roughly) two approaches in mindmapping: the almost linear mindmaps (they look radial, but the subbranches are equal to lines in normal texts) and the truly organic looking mindmaps. The first leads back to the work of Evelyn Wood, the second to Tony Buzan. I did research on this topic, and organic mindmaps work much stronger than the non-organic.  That’s why I prefer MyThoughts or iMindmap over all kinds of mindmap software versions, and Mapul over Mindmeister. This mindmap was inspired by the timeline of Pascal Venier (http://www.visualmapper.blogspot.com/), the excellent information, I think they were one of the firsts with all kinds of historical references on http://www.mind-mapping.org/mindmapping-learning-study-memory/who-invented-mind-mapping.html combined with the stuff I drop now and then in my mindmap trainings.

Milestones and keystones in the history of mindmapping

It is still subject to debate. Who invented mindmapping? This mindmap (click to enlarge) ‘20 centuries of mindmapping’ gives a straight answer by looking at the ‘firsts’.

The first notion of the term mind map you will find in the book of Charles Williams.
The first mindmap is made by Walt Disney (not only great mindmap, but also the first cross medial strategy).
The first radial concept is from Evelyn Wood.
The first mindmap as we know it, is from Tony Buzan.
The first mindmap book is by Tony Buzan.
The first computer mindmap is from Peter Barrett.

So I would say mindmapping has many fathers, only it is fair to say that Buzan pushed its popularity and making it into a mainstream technique as it is now.

What I do want to stress, however, is that there are (roughly) two approaches in mindmapping: the almost linear mindmaps (they look radial, but the subbranches are equal to lines in normal texts) and the truly organic looking mindmaps. The first leads back to the work of Evelyn Wood, the second to Tony Buzan. I did research on this topic, and organic mindmaps work much stronger than the non-organic.  That’s why I prefer MyThoughts or iMindmap over all kinds of mindmap software versions, and Mapul over Mindmeister.

This mindmap was inspired by the timeline of Pascal Venier (http://www.visualmapper.blogspot.com/), the excellent information, I think they were one of the firsts with all kinds of historical references on http://www.mind-mapping.org/mindmapping-learning-study-memory/who-invented-mind-mapping.html combined with the stuff I drop now and then in my mindmap trainings.

4:43am  |   URL: http://3dmindmapping.tumblr.com/post/874466124/historymindmapping
(Notes: 2)
  
Filed under: mindmapping history milestones 
July 27, 2010
Since I have an iPad, the use of my laptop has dropped with more than 50 %. Some things are much easier on the ipad than on a laptop: reading, for example. And you don’t have to carry the weight of a laptop around. The mindmap shows my ten favourite iPad applications.

Since I have an iPad, the use of my laptop has dropped with more than 50 %. Some things are much easier on the ipad than on a laptop: reading, for example. And you don’t have to carry the weight of a laptop around. The mindmap shows my ten favourite iPad applications.

5:40pm  |   URL: http://3dmindmapping.tumblr.com/post/867636246/ipad
Filed under: ipad applications mindmapping 
July 18, 2010
The oil song (steve forbert)My goodness. In the last decade alone one billion gallons of oil were spilled. The 3.3 million barrels flowing into the Mexican Gulf inspired Steve Forbert to write the oil song. “It was oil! oil!, pouring in the sea, oil, oil, don’t buy it at the station, you can get it now for free, just come on down to the shoreline, where the water used to be.” Great song, great tragedy. The present oil spill in the US beats the one of the Mexican Gulf by 3.9 million barrels. Well, it’s all a matter now of naming, blaming and….claiming. “US lawyers are treating this as the biggest all-you-can-eat buffet that has ever been laid out before them”, writes the Wall Street Journal. BP will have to pay dearly. Estimates run up to 25 billions of dollars. But let us not forget  that the oil problem is a many-headed monster. The US, for example, for giving out the permit for drilling, for sloppy inspections. And what about us? For this mindmap (click to enlarge) I found out that the world consumes (spills?) almost 90 million barrels a day! Listen to Steve Forbert’s oil song: http://steveforbert.bandcamp.com/album/the-oil-song-2010

The oil song (steve forbert)
My goodness. In the last decade alone one billion gallons of oil were spilled. The 3.3 million barrels flowing into the Mexican Gulf inspired Steve Forbert to write the oil song. “It was oil! oil!, pouring in the sea, oil, oil, don’t buy it at the station, you can get it now for free, just come on down to the shoreline, where the water used to be.” Great song, great tragedy. The present oil spill in the US beats the one of the Mexican Gulf by 3.9 million barrels. Well, it’s all a matter now of naming, blaming and….claiming. “US lawyers are treating this as the biggest all-you-can-eat buffet that has ever been laid out before them”, writes the Wall Street Journal. BP will have to pay dearly. Estimates run up to 25 billions of dollars. But let us not forget  that the oil problem is a many-headed monster. The US, for example, for giving out the permit for drilling, for sloppy inspections. And what about us? For this mindmap (click to enlarge) I found out that the world consumes (spills?) almost 90 million barrels a day!

Listen to Steve Forbert’s oil song: http://steveforbert.bandcamp.com/album/the-oil-song-2010

8:38am  |   URL: http://3dmindmapping.tumblr.com/post/827687926/oilspill
(Notes: 1)
  
Filed under: mindmapping oil spill steve forbert oil song 
July 13, 2010
Today I had 146 bleeps for incoming tweets; 36 bleeps (actually submarine sound) for incoming mails; i’ve got 4 messages from linkedin (two invitations to connect, two confirmations of people that had accepted my invitations), 3 messages from tumblr (two about reblogs of my Basement Tapes blog); 6 sms messages; 13 telephone calls (half of these companies that want to sell something), I had two meetings (one came up spontaneously, the other was scheduled, but lasted twice longer than planned). The day was gone before I realised I did not do what I needed (and planned) to do: finish a chapter of my book (about mindmapping, scheduled for release the end of this year) and come up with a marketing strategy for a new high-tech company. When a consultancy, specialised in time management trainings, asked me if I could produce a couple of mindmaps for a in-company training, this one (click to enlarge) was my first. Now don’t get me wrong: several of the tools mentioned in the mindmap can be strong business tools (and so useful) but nevertheless they very often act as stimuli that interfere with your planned tasks. And then these stimuli tend to be big pitfalls. They absorb time.

Today I had 146 bleeps for incoming tweets; 36 bleeps (actually submarine sound) for incoming mails; i’ve got 4 messages from linkedin (two invitations to connect, two confirmations of people that had accepted my invitations), 3 messages from tumblr (two about reblogs of my Basement Tapes blog); 6 sms messages; 13 telephone calls (half of these companies that want to sell something), I had two meetings (one came up spontaneously, the other was scheduled, but lasted twice longer than planned). The day was gone before I realised I did not do what I needed (and planned) to do: finish a chapter of my book (about mindmapping, scheduled for release the end of this year) and come up with a marketing strategy for a new high-tech company.

When a consultancy, specialised in time management trainings, asked me if I could produce a couple of mindmaps for a in-company training, this one (click to enlarge) was my first. Now don’t get me wrong: several of the tools mentioned in the mindmap can be strong business tools (and so useful) but nevertheless they very often act as stimuli that interfere with your planned tasks. And then these stimuli tend to be big pitfalls. They absorb time.

2:08pm  |   URL: http://3dmindmapping.tumblr.com/post/807314038/today-i-had-146-bleeps-for-incoming-tweets-36
Filed under: timemanagement mindmapping mindmapping 
July 11, 2010
This mindmap (click to enlarge) was made in 1991 (originally hand drawn, for this blog converted into an electronic mindmap) shortly after the release of the Bootleg series 1-3. I read in the liner notes: “Santa fe, is just one example of a batch of previously unsuspected Basement Tracks”. I was annoyed. Never liked the released Basement tapes (1975). For starters (sorry Band members and fans) because of the tracks of the Band. Secondly - I started hunting Dylan bootlegs since 1974 -, I knew there were much better songs circulating (like the majestic Sign of the cross and I am not there) and the drop by drop releases (Like Quinn the Eskimo on Biograph and Santa Fe and I shall be released on the Bootleg series. And what i could not know in 1991 the release of I am not there on the soundtrack of the film named after the song). This five gems alone would have turned the Basement Tapes in a mindblowing album. If Rolling Stone gave the album Basement Tapes five stars in 1975 what would the ranking be if the five added gems had been added? What was the reason for CBS (and/or Dylan) to discard the best Basement Tapes songs? Just business as usual as with almost all Dylan albums (read my blog another side about the Shot of love outtakes). Just leave out the best songs? And returning to the liner notes of the Bootleg series 1-3, if there is indeed a batch of previously unsuspected Basement Tracks (I doubt it), release them! And not one each decade, but coherently on one new CD, the bootleg series volume 9. The Basement Tapes deserves a place in history, as an important period in Dylan’s career between Blonde on Blonde and John Wesley Harding.

This mindmap (click to enlarge) was made in 1991 (originally hand drawn, for this blog converted into an electronic mindmap) shortly after the release of the Bootleg series 1-3. I read in the liner notes: “Santa fe, is just one example of a batch of previously unsuspected Basement Tracks”. I was annoyed. Never liked the released Basement tapes (1975). For starters (sorry Band members and fans) because of the tracks of the Band. Secondly - I started hunting Dylan bootlegs since 1974 -, I knew there were much better songs circulating (like the majestic Sign of the cross and I am not there) and the drop by drop releases (Like Quinn the Eskimo on Biograph and Santa Fe and I shall be released on the Bootleg series. And what i could not know in 1991 the release of I am not there on the soundtrack of the film named after the song). This five gems alone would have turned the Basement Tapes in a mindblowing album. If Rolling Stone gave the album Basement Tapes five stars in 1975 what would the ranking be if the five added gems had been added? What was the reason for CBS (and/or Dylan) to discard the best Basement Tapes songs? Just business as usual as with almost all Dylan albums (read my blog another side about the Shot of love outtakes). Just leave out the best songs? And returning to the liner notes of the Bootleg series 1-3, if there is indeed a batch of previously unsuspected Basement Tracks (I doubt it), release them! And not one each decade, but coherently on one new CD, the bootleg series volume 9. The Basement Tapes deserves a place in history, as an important period in Dylan’s career between Blonde on Blonde and John Wesley Harding.

5:25pm  |   URL: http://3dmindmapping.tumblr.com/post/799160177/this-mindmap-click-to-enlarge-was-made-in-1991
(Notes: 5)
  
Filed under: basement tapes bob dylan mindmapping 
July 11, 2010
Today the Netherlands played the final of the world champion soccer. Unfortunately they lost it against Spain. This mindmap (click to enlarge) depicts 10 reasons why the team reached the final. And….you can learn as a company from soccer. The same drivers apply to for example a business project. You (manager/trainer) need to have believe in your team’s ability as well as the people/soccer players within the team. The team’s spirit should be high. Not only in your basic line-up, but also among the reserves. If this is not the case, you as manager should work on that. You need focus. A clear objective. One of perhaps the biggest success factors for the Dutch team was the switch from rather playing attractive soccer to results count first. One of the other Dutch success factors is that trainer Bert van Marwijk seldom changes his line-up. This approach gives confidence to players. And another, underestimated, success factor: sometimes you need plain luck.

Today the Netherlands played the final of the world champion soccer. Unfortunately they lost it against Spain. This mindmap (click to enlarge) depicts 10 reasons why the team reached the final. And….you can learn as a company from soccer. The same drivers apply to for example a business project. You (manager/trainer) need to have believe in your team’s ability as well as the people/soccer players within the team. The team’s spirit should be high. Not only in your basic line-up, but also among the reserves. If this is not the case, you as manager should work on that. You need focus. A clear objective. One of perhaps the biggest success factors for the Dutch team was the switch from rather playing attractive soccer to results count first. One of the other Dutch success factors is that trainer Bert van Marwijk seldom changes his line-up. This approach gives confidence to players. And another, underestimated, success factor: sometimes you need plain luck.

5:09am  |   URL: http://3dmindmapping.tumblr.com/post/797219328/today-the-netherlands-played-the-final-of-the
Filed under: worldchampionship dutch soccer team management mindmapping 
July 6, 2010
The Mindmap PET bottles (click to enlarge) was inspired by a fact sheet from the Pacific Institute (http://is.gd/dhcCk): “Producing PET bottles for American consumption requires the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil, not including the energy for transportation.” (data refer to 2006). I tried to recalculate that to get a better understanding of this number. If I’m right the oil spilled in order to produce 31 billion bottles of water (the consumption in the US) is sufficient to supply one million cars with petrol. Whoaa. Disaster in a bottle. Time to think it over.

The Mindmap PET bottles (click to enlarge) was inspired by a fact sheet from the Pacific Institute (http://is.gd/dhcCk): “Producing PET bottles for American consumption requires the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil, not including the energy for transportation.” (data refer to 2006). I tried to recalculate that to get a better understanding of this number. If I’m right the oil spilled in order to produce 31 billion bottles of water (the consumption in the US) is sufficient to supply one million cars with petrol. Whoaa. Disaster in a bottle. Time to think it over.

6:04am  |   URL: http://3dmindmapping.tumblr.com/post/776331311/oilslurper
Filed under: environment PET bottles plastic mindmapping 
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