Thanks to GeoURL you can now see who’s near me. [Credit to The Obvious and Jon Udell (amongst others) for beating me to it!]
I met two very special people earlier this week. Beverley De-Gale and Orin Lewis are the founders of the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust. Driven originally by the necessity of looking after their family, they have gone on to help many, many others. Not pushy, not showy, but very much people who radiate an air of being “on purpose”…
Two part article (part 1, part 2) on “Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research” by Sebastien Paquet [via Mathemagenic]
New look site live after much caffeine… Inspiration to start using SMARTY templates from Brad Choate’s Smart templating with Moveable Type. Germ of the idea to incorporate a seperate site dedicated to my book collection (far from populated yet!) from What Do I Know. CSS hints on making three columns work from glish.com
In today’s Observer magazine Andrew G Marshall writes about his application of ideas from Malcom Gladwell’s book
Prompted by Ben Hammersley’s idea, Ben Trott has written the More Like This From Others script and Ben has implemented it… definitely something I shall look at for here, but after some other “behind-the-scenes” stuff I’m into at present… (major site redesign and technology change)
Ben Hammersley and Azeem Azhar are debating how to create a decentralised categorisation service for blogs, to support a “More Like this” sort of thing…
Just found Hal Macomber’s excellent Reforming Project Management blog. Some recent entries: Story-telling Reforms the Project, and several entries 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 about Koskela’s and Howellls paper The Underlying Theory of Project Management is Obsolete [via GeoDog ]
I’ve added an XFML feed to the syndication outputs of the site. You can see a FacetMap view of this site here MT template from Ease Original pointer to XFML from Ben Hammersley
Nayeem Azim is a doctor. He’s also a refugee from Afghanistan. He describes how after re-qualifying to practice in the UK he has set up an online college to train other refugee doctors. After their first year they have helped 46 doctors to re-qualify to work in the UK, at an average cost of 5,000 UKP per head. Training a doctor from scratch costs ~ 250,000 UKP. He says: Why have we been successful?