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• What is the Internet? Nice intro / reminder -- Nice advert by BT, giving us a sense of what the Internet is. We use it in training sessions sometimes. Now you need never wonder what that little groove called under your nose in called… How many people in your organisation / community could do with understand what the Internet is? Tailored, experiential training sessions available.
• In Recovery - Affluenza -- Troubled? Read Affluenza. Watch/listen to Lily… she’s growing up. Maybe we all can. “I’m a weapon of massive consumption. But it’s not my fault, it’s how I’m programmed to function.” Spread the antidotes, not the virus.
• You are a Neuron ? Slides -- Here are the slides from my talk this evening at Twitter Dev Nest.  It was great fun writing and delivering this talk, and thanks for the great feedback in person and over Twitter. You Are A Neuron [update: and here is a recording, bur sorry, the audio ain't brilliant: ] View more presentations from grasuth.
• Speaking at Twitter Developer Nest London -- [ 24 March, 2009; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] I'm giving a talk at the first Twitter Developer Nest in London next Tuesday, with a talk titled You are a Neuron, on something that has been floating around in the back of the old mind for a bit.   It is less of a technical 'how to make this' or 'how I made this' developer [...]
• (How) can Web 2.0 help save the human race? -- Via YouTube, via Twitter, via WordPress… to you. Participation culture, creativity & social change - by Prof David Gauntlett (Age: 37), Professor of Media and Communications, at University of Westminster, UK. Reduce carbon emissions by 90% by 2030 (or sooner)? How are we going to do that!!? David Gauntlett says, through encouraging more creativity in education and [...]
• Alan Watts v South Park - Meaning of Life -- Love Alan Watts. Interesting that the South Park guys wanted to team up to do this. And on that note, we’re off on holiday for a week’s food, love and snow in Bardonecchia, Italian Alps. Many thanks to Bea’s outstanding school Down’s Junior for approving of the extra holiday. No doubt it will be highly educational, in [...]
• Communities of Practice: Conversations To Collaboration -- Lots in this fine presentation, but well worth flicking through and pondering. Communities of Practice came up when I began an MA in Person Centred Education. I believe they have profound implications for lifelong learning. Many thanks to Steve Dale for some fine work here.
• Google pushes for open Energy data, launches PowerMeter -- Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, has today announced Google PowerMeter, a tool that will take energy consumption data from smart household energy meters and make the data available and easy to understand. This will be very useful to bring social energy measurement alive, where you and I can compare our energy use and work out [...]
• Is that 7g or 0.2g CO2 per Google search? -- You may recall news stories last month claiming that a google search results in 7g of CO2 emissions.   This story resulted in a storm of comment and reporting, a clarification from google (0.2g per search), and somewhat of a clarification from the original study?s author.  But all the resulting hoo har goes to show: The original [...]
• The Science & Art of (Ethical?) Persuasion -- We are all enjoying reading “YES! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion” by leading academics Goldstein and Cialdini with Martin making it pacy and very readable. Even Bea (8) snaffled it to swot up, priding herself on the ability to convince her parents of just about anything. What I’m liking about the book, other than [...]