Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Sep 4, 2008	Social Enterprise trains rats to detect mines and you can adopt one.
The social enterprise behind Hero rats has just won a £500,000 Skoll Foundation grant to develop its work using rats to sniff out threats to humans from landmines to disease. You can adopt one of the little critters for 5 euros a month.  Christmas present? Read more here and hat tip...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Sep 2, 2008	Google Reader explained by Commoncraft.
I think it was Antonio who once gave me the helpful feed reader analogy of it being like sending your dog to the front door to see if the paper has arrived yet rather than constantly trudging there yourself.  Commoncraft have a crack at their own explanation. Hattip Tony Molloy . ...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Sep 1, 2008	Seth Godin’s First Law of mass media:
Organizations will work tirelessly to de-personalize every communication medium they encounter. Email used to be honest interactions between consenting adults. Facebook pages (and Wikipedia, too) were built by people, not staffs. Twits came from real people, and so did instant...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 31, 2008	runbyhumans
A website for business which might also have the right qualities to get social media. (Hat tip thriving – as always) ... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 30, 2008	RSA Education Charter on learning and creativity.
Very occasionally I write a post for Thriving (my hat tip for this one), I’m a school governor and also a Fellow of the RSA .  The 250 year old organisation for ideas and social action is just opening its first school in Tipton in the Black Country . As I’ve written before I...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 30, 2008	Tim Ireland thinks Julie Moult is an Idiot
It seems : What have I got against Julie Moult? Well, looking into some of the hateful and (ahem) inventive crap she’s produced for The Sun and The Daily Mail over the years, quite a lot… but really, I’m here today to deliver to Julie a well-earned lesson on the...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 28, 2008	Passion not scale….
Publish, then filter; Passion, not scale – these should be stapled onto the walls of anyone interested in creating value – public or commercial – on the internet. And they should be in the DNA of anyone commissioning for 4iP. Matt Locke of Channel 4’s 4iP on what he...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008	Twitter and court reporting.
It has been many years since I last did any court reporting and I remember the scramble to get out of court and either get to the court press room or recover your mobile from security.  Recording devices like cameras and microphones are banned in UK courts. Have things changed at all? Would...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008	Youth Citizenship Commission
Priorities listed here : Terms of Reference The Commission will focus on young people aged 11-19 and will: Examine what citizenship means to young people Consider how to increase young people’s participation in politics; the development of citizenship amongst disadvantaged...... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008	Of all the people in all the world…
If you’re based near Birmingham keep your eyes open, there are more. ... [view]

Posted By:  Podnosh Posted On:  Aug 26, 2008	What should Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery display with its £300,000?
This weekend I learned that BMAG is aiming to find a whole bunch of new visitors to its many attractions . Today Jon Bounds asks what new stuff will get people involved? Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery have just come into some money, £300,000, and they’re going to use it to create a...... [view]