Insights

Google Does It Again!

Google, in partnership with Academic institutions has released it Measurement Lab. This free service allows users to test thier internet connections and run other macros in order to see if their ISP is throttling off their connection. All the data gathered will be made available for research and periodic  reports will emerge on findings. 
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The Economy and Technology

This is a great article from Hamish McRae here called ‘Don’t Despair, Technology Still had the Power to save the World.’  It is in today’s Indy and argues that technology could well be a big part of the answer to our economic woes.  Read it and decide for yourself if he has a point.
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Rolling Stone Magazine Seeks a Younger Readership!

Forgive this cross-posting but I loved it! Rolling Stone broke the news about the leak of an excerpt from U2’s new single:  Get on Your Boots on iTunes. U2 promptly responded by releasing the whole of the single on their website. Check it out here. In the Rolling Stone website commentary on this story, I
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10 Exercise Tips

I just read Gretchen Rubin’s blog.  She is one of the writers on Slate and if you haven’t seem Slate then please have a look at it and its intelligent (and often witty) US political commentary. But Gretchen talks about Exercise and in that spirit here are my 10 tips for doing it and not
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A Good Man and True

Dominic Lawson has written a brilliant piece in the Independent on the root causes of the financial crisis. It is well worth reading. It castigates the belief that held sway, that risk could be predicted in complex algorhythms, so no debt was totally toxic if you counted in the risk. The smart number crunchers build
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Letter to My Daughters

Barack Obama has written a letter to his children on the eve of his inauguration. You can read the full text here. It is a touching piece: emotional, vivid and full of love for Sacha and Malia. He explains what his vision is, of the future, and why he embarked on the journey he did,
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What Won’t You Give Up in a Recession?

Well according to Motley Fool , three of the five top things are:  mobile phone, broadband connection and home phone.  We are addicted to our communication pathways more than holidays and new clothes.  Well I would certainly drink to that!
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Ada Lovelace Day: 24th March 2009

Suw Charman-Anderson used PledgeBank to set up a 1000 strong group who have pledged to blog about a female technologist whom they admire on 24th March to commemorate  Ada Lovelace one of the computing pioneers who worked with Charles Babbage and is credited with writing the world’s first computer program. She was also the daughter
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The Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning

Niace is sponsoring this enquiry. Sir David Watson is the Chair of the Inquiry Commission and Tom Schuller is running the programme. Tom has his own enquiry blog which reflects aspects of the Inquiry’s progress and illuminates the scope. You can also sign up for the Inquiry Bulletin. The overall goal of the Inquiry is
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Jane’s Top Tools for 2009

Let me continue the tradition of always being a few days behind everyone else into the new year and introduce Jane Hart’s top tools for 2009.  She always has a few that I am unfamiliar with and they are all worth exploriing.  My tip of tips is Dimdim. The free site (for up to 20
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