It's a humble beginning, and it may very well be a humble end, but I wanted to let people know about a site called Mothershare. It's a wiki for mums, dads, carers, babysitters, grandparents, and hapless uncles like me who...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
John Templeton in the New Scientist (it's a pay-for read)"Science creates vast power rapidly ... [but] to invest in advancing power without investing in stewardship is folly"...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
A little angst-ridden tale of how homebrew book-classification goes wrong. (from the GuardianOn the table at which I am writing there's a pile of disconsolate books. They are homeless. At the end of a long and weary process of rearranging...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
I liked this from Sweet Hallucinations Of A Psycho. I had a dream... I always wanted to become a famous talented actor & take part in an important play as the main charecter... Decades have passed and my talent wasted....$MTEntryExcerpt$>
Flock "Flock advertises itself as a "social browser," meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools. The browser even promi (tags: social_software browser)...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
This man is rapidly becoming my idol.Kenya's oldest school pupil, 85-year-old Kimani Nganga Maruge, has boarded a plane for the first time in his life - to visit the United States. He is going to address a United Nations Millennium...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
Nice spot by Will Davies which I've only just picked up. A team at Lancaster University looked at better ways for us to organise and retrieve information for shared use, and to do that the researchers investigated how couples catalogue...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thought I'd give a quick plug to a Seminar on Social Computing & The Organisation that I'm organising in Oxford on October 7th. Feel free to come if you're interested (or let me know what sort of things might be...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
ProjectsISSS : Primer (tags: systems methodology Banathy) Agoras project (tags: Banathy systems project)...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
Valdis Krebs'"biggest take-away from this year's MeshForum conference was the FEMA person who was on a panel about connecting in catastrophes. She said something amazing, yet so basic. She talked about Table-Top meetings before any major event. 'We must KNOW...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
Dusted off Mike Brearley's "The Art of Captaincy" this evening, in preparation for the gut-wrenching Ashes finale on Thursday. It's got loads of gems (perhaps only if you like cricket - I can't tell ), but these struck me as...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
Quick checklist: - Are you a talker? - Are you a phoner? - Are you a letter-writer? - Are you an emailer? - Are you a blogger? And if yes to any of the above is it a badge you...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
Great stuff from Tom Coates: "We believe that for a piece of Social Software to be useful: Every individual should derive value from their contributions Every contribution should provide value to their peers as well The site or organisation that...$MTEntryExcerpt$>
A New York paper is running a story on Thao Nguyen's transformation " from quiet Web developer to feisty crimefighter". [thanks Matt for the pointer] Allegedly (and while I've every sympathy with her if it did happen, it looks like...$MTEntryExcerpt$>