Rain where is it? Not here in Tavira
I read in The Resident this week that this area is 50% down on rain levels. Its bizzarre looking at the floods in the UK and wishing for rain here. http://www.algarveresident.com/story.asp?XID=33997
Social Media – A Force for Good
I watched the Nesta event yesterday that was streamed live. Stephen Fry, Biz Stone, Founder and Chief Executive of Twitter; and Reid Hoffman, Founder and Chief Executive of LinkedIn discussed the phenomenon of social media and its future impact. It can be viewed here http://www.nesta.org.uk/assets/events/social_media__a_force_for_good
It is lonely having a second life
I received an email via a community informatics list. The author is c.wagner BBC News Magazine just published an interesting article about the fading interest in Second Life. If corroborates what many of us Second Life users have experienced already, namely that it’s pretty lonely out there in Second Life. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8367957.stm I don’t think…
Wired for Success
I developed a learning programme a year or so ago for the Community Sector Coalition The programme is for small community groups who want to start using computers and ICT. A report and two volumes can be downloaded for free. See below for links to PDF’s The key findings of the research into the ICT…
The kitchen of the world
Monica Ali – In the Kitchen Feisty and tough, is how Monica Ali characterises herself. She is a novelist who creates controversy because she has the audacity to be both Asian and a woman who puts the spotlight on racism and inequality in modern Britain. She was born in Dhaka, Pakistan in 1967, to a…
