Feedburner tells me I have well over 3,000 subscribers to my feed.  I was surprised when I saw that.  And humbled.  My posts are sporadic, and yet still people follow this blog.  Thank you folks! Now, please come and follow me on Twitter, and you’ll be more up to date, with between-post happenings.  You won’t find out
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[Updated thanks to Tony Linde (@tonylinde on Twitter) 17 April 2011 - Now defunct]  New on the scene and in mind-mapping.org is MindMapPaper, a free, Windows-only offering from Lex River.  It is desktop software and needs .Net to run. MindMapPaper is an original approach to mind mapping with advantages and disadvantages. In its favour are these benefits: Simplicity.  It takes just a few minutes to learn all you need to
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Mindmapinspiration has a Gallery and, as usual with Paul Foreman’s inspiring work, it’s great.  A worthy addition to mind-mapping.org’s Mind Map Libraries. Check it out. Vic Gee

Here’s the latest on Mind-mapping.org updates: MyThoughts A Mac mind mapper with an elegant and flexible organic appearance. Pathway Makes a graphical “network” representation of your visited article pages on Wikipedia. A node represents an article, a connection between two nodes shows your ‘pathway’ from one to the other. You can save these networks. Not to be confused with Wikimindmap which produces a mind map from a specified Wikipedia page. Thinking
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New at Mind-mapping.org this week: Google Wonder wheel Shows search-result topics as a simple information map, with the usual detailed search results alongside.  To use it, search on your chosen term. Just above the results (and probably ads), you’ll see a link + Show options…  Click on that and select Wonder wheel from the list on the left hand side.  Click on the text on the wheel’s spokes to expand
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A serious challenger to existing iPhone mind mapping apps swam into my view today: iFreeMind. The site says “iFreeMind is a native software on iPhone for reading, showing and modifing the files created by FreeMind, and also for creating, writing the FreeMind compatible format files.” This appears to hold an impressive hand of FreeMind capabilities and sets the bar for other iPhone apps to beat: Icons; detailed colour control; built in help
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A new mind mapping application for the iPhone (OS 3.0 required) has just appeared. It’s a FreeMind look-alike and boasts compatibility with FreeMind files. To an extent that’s true: I can make a mind map and export it via email to a PC and open it in FreeMind. $2.99 won’t buy a lot of software, of course, but this one is very limited.  Central node, branches out, all one colour,
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I’ve been meaning to add Freeplane to mind-mapping.org for a while, but its alpha status was holding me back.  Now I’ve heard from Ryan Wesley, Freeplane’s project manager, that overall it is pretty stable.   They are putting out a call for more contributors and more users, so let’s look at Freeplane: It is an open source and free mind-mapping program that resulted from the forking of the FreeMind code base 18 months
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Craig Mecham of upcoming Strengthsmapper.com has put out an invitation for a limited number of Beta testers for the company’s ”personal development and team-building” add-in for MindManager 8. He did this in the form of a comment on my most recent post.  Blog comments are rather hidden unless you’re looking for them, so this post is to make it more visible and provide you with a link. For participation, Craig promises “a free download of the software add-in along
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This week on mind-mapping.org, I have added four new visual thinking tools, Debategraph, Maltego, MindBerry and Prezi. Debategraph This is a wiki tool that allows public debates to be conducted in a visual environment. Maltego Described as a forensics application for the mining, gathering and representation of information in a meaningful way, this is a flexible development of an application once known as ‘Evolution’. MindBerry Mind mapping for the BlackBerry.  AFAIK the
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