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One of the awards went to The Chicago Tribune's "PANDA," which aims to sew otherwise incompatible datasets together, allowing journalists to find unknown relationships from the archived data that normally sits dormant on individual hard drives.

What makes the cartoon light bulb of creativity go off over someone's head? What is the catalyst for groundbreaking inventions and innovative breakthroughs? In his illuminating new book, the journalist Jonah Lehrer explicates some now-classic case studies.

A ZURB fan recently passed along a nifty video after reading our recent post about the importance of iteration. Just to recap, we said that to get an aha moment, you have to get there incrementally, through iteration. In other words, there are no shortcuts to an aha moment. The video features bestselling author and journalist Jonah Lehrer, who writes mostly about psychology and neuroscience. Here he's taking about aha moments and how they don't happen by focusing too much on the problem.

In the hyperlinked  write up, the author pointed out three "items" which appear to make clear a topic I find quite unclear. My reaction was that these items do not capture search either of the moment or some "to be" world where content management experts, governance specialists, and "real" journalists look for information. The items described a future that underscores a conceptual problems in thinking about information retrieval.