leweb
Ever wanted to control your computer by your brain alone? Ariel Garten, CEO of Interaxon [http://www.interaxon.ca/], is showing us that it could be closer than you realise. She’s also showing us her brain. Not, admittedly, by opening her skull and showing us the meat inside, but
photo
Tommy Gibbons & Aleks Krotoski chatting during a coffee break at Science Online. Note the shoes she bought to match her Second Life avatar. 🙂
Blogging
This slideshow requires JavaScript. I dropped into one of the unconference sessions, looking at engaging with your readers (of obvious interest to me). The panel did a sterling job of giving a beginner’s guide to managing comments and commenters, from different scales (personal blogs to Ars Technica). I thought
data visualisation
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/09/4956348949_3cb4a8fc3c.jpg] Today’s been an interesting contrast with yesterday. dConstruct was very much a temple of the converted, discussing elements of web design theology. Science Online [http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/] is much more of a culture clash,
ada lovelace day
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/03/lisa_qmul2.jpg] *This post is my contribution to Ada Lovelace Day [http://findingada.com/] in which over a thousand bloggers are celebrating the women they admire in technology. * I first met Lisa Jardine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Blogs
Ah, nothing like a [rational, calm, provable headline](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1153583/Social-websites-harm-childrens-brains-Chilling-warning-parents-neuroscientist.html) to boost the public’s trust in journalists.Spotted in Waitrose last night. Debunked [not long after I got home](http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/the-evidence-aric-sigman-ignored/). Noted: shallow, sensationalist reporting in a
Publishing
Good news from other parts of the vast Reed Empire [http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2007/09/reeds-rx-conver.html]. Reed Elsevier, which does all that pricey scientific publishing, is starting to make some of its titles free on the web. Good stuff.
danah boyd
The good Doctor Tinworth, my wife Lorna, has told me many times how Wikipedia is becoming a battleground in universities, particularly in the sciences. More and more students are handing in papers which cite only Wikipedia as a source. Anyone who knows anything about how scientific literature functions, and the
advertising
So, it’s Easter Sunday, and I’m going to do something I rarely do here: talk a (very) little about faith. First up, there’s an interesting piece on CNN about the head of the Human Genome Project and why he has Christian faith [http://www.cnn.com/2007/
headlines
The headline on a BBC news alert that just dropped into my in-box is: > **Pluto stripped of planet status ** Did it fail a drugs test?
property
* [There may be some values in publishing stocks](http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/23/news/companies/publishing/index.htm) See, there’s life in the dead tree industry, still.(tags: [journalism](http://del.icio.us/adders/journalism) [media](http://del.icio.us/adders/media) [publishing](http://del.icio.us/
animals
The problem is, of course, that many of these activists live in little self-reinforcing circles of fanatical belief. Make no mistake, that’s what they are: fanatics who believe their own conviction puts them above the law. Certainly they show a fanatic’s contempt for the law. With no-one within