beatnic - just wondering

Delicious seems to have stopped posting my bookmarks across on to this website, so here are a few recent additions:

• Should Designers and Developers Do Usability? (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) to usability webdesign roles … saved by 38 other people … 1 day ago
• BBC NEWS |UK | ‘Most dangerous’ roads revealed to A682 yorkshiredales longpreston roads safety … saved by 3 other
  people … 2 days ago
• Community Kit for SharePoint - Home to sharepoint cks blogs wikis communitykit … saved by 51 other people … 2 days ago
• Wired Science - Wired Blogs “Yes Men Strike Oil: Civil Disobedients Make Modest Flesh-to-Fuel Proposal” - as my friend another Paul says serious/funny. to yesmen prank politics activism environment … saved by 52 other people … 3 days ago
• Epicenter - Wired Blogs “Dismantling the Media With the BBC’s News Director, Richard Sambrook” - David Weinberger interview to BBC news richardsambrook davidweinberger interview viaeuan … saved by 19 other people … 3 days ago
• Dulwich Rhino Run - Event Details - Runner’s World Tuesday 3 July, 7pm 10 miler to Dulwich running London dulwichrhinorun … 4 days ago
• Face-off | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk to facebook bbc guardian … saved by 6 other people … on june 19

This via our discussion forum at work:

June 26-27 Tuesday & Wednesday 7am - 7pm

Your chance to see what the HGV driver sees, or doesn’t see. Turn up anytime

Two large lorries will be set up all day Tuesday and Wednesday in Trafalgar Square. This is your chance to get up close and stay safe. Sit in the driver’s cab, see what you look like in the driver’s mirror. Walk / cycle around the lorry, discover where you can be seen and where you cannot. Talk to the police and some drivers, explain what it’s like cycling near a lorry.

One objective is to educate cyclists by getting to understand lorries. The other objective is to educate lorry drivers and trainers. You can take part in video filming of your moves and reactions, tell them what you think and feel. These videos will be used to help train lorry drivers in London. The aim is to reduce the number of collisions and deaths. If a lorry hits a cyclist – it’s the cyclist who hurts.

This show is put on by the Commercial Vehicle Education Unit of the Met Police. They are working to make freight transport safer.

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Please pass this information on to other cyclists . . . . .

Charlie Lloyd

Cycling Development Officer

London Cycling Campaign

A friend recently told me they hadn’t used LinkedIn since discovering Facebook, which I found interesting.

I think they are very different animals, each with their own set of services - a few of which overlap.

Not all my “connections” on LinkedIn are “friends” on Facebook and vice versa. It makes a good Venn diagram though!

[And yes yes I did once said I'd remain "LinkedOut" :)]

As local Cllr Richard Thomas writes, you can have your say about what should happen to Goose Green roundabout (see location on google maps).

The shortlist:

1. feature tree
2. sign post
3. lantern
4. art installation

See further suggestions, information and discussion on the East Dulwich Forum

I get asked regularly - particularly by colleagues in the intranet/enterprise portal management world - how many people use the discussion forum, wikis and blogs which live on Gateway, the BBC’s intranet, which I manage.

Below are some snapshot numbers I pulled together in May.

To give some context, the monthly reach for Gateway is roughly 30,000 people.

In themselves they don’t tell a story. For some narrative we need to look at our trend data and qualitative research.

talk.gateway (discussion forum)

23,204 members have posted a total of 31,951 replies within 6,736 topics in 102 visible forums.

496 “Thanks” in the last 6 months

Gateway wiki usage

Examples: Future Media & Technology Projects overview, BBC Monitoring
staff map, Global News Division “Big Stories”

Blog usage numbers were unavailable, but they continue to thrive.

These tools were started by Euan and John in Digilab - they’re now looked after and developed by my team on behalf of our colleagues.

If you’ll pardon the pun.

I’ve just been sent this info about an event taking place in July. I’ve added in the link showing where the venue is on Google maps.

Title: Gas Organ exhibition
Venue: The Sassoon Gallery
Location: Blenheim Grove, Peckham Rye, London SE15
Date: 16th - 18th July
Time: Midday - 9pm
Cost: Free

On three sultry nights in July, the sepulchral vault of Peckham’s underground venue The Sassoon Gallery will reverberate to the eerily melancholic strains of the infamous Gas Organ.

The Brain-child of founding collaborators Lou Smith and Rufus Burdett, the Gas Organ is a fabulous musical instrument, able to play itself, or be controlled or played remotely.

Constructed from freely available plumbing, electrical and laboratory components, the Gas Organ is a fusion of Art, Science and Engineering, beautiful in its clinical appearance and mesmerising in its auditory effect. Witnesses of the event have their credulity challenged as they view the ephemeral chaotic turbulence of a flame producing such incredible range and depth of sound; how can a science lab experiment evoke such an emotional response as this? I am watching this, but I don’t believe it.

Weblink: www.experiment1.co.uk

I will definitely be checking it out.

Source: BBC NEWS | Health | Cancer-drug refund scheme backed

A watchdog has endorsed a new scheme under which a bone marrow-cancer drug’s manufacturers would refund the NHS if a patient did not respond to treatment.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is recommending multiple myeloma patients in Wales and England should get Velcade on the NHS.

[...]

Myeloma:

• A debilitating form of bone marrow cancer
• It is currently incurable, but treatable
• A cancer of the plasma cells, found in the bone marrow
• Incidence increasing faster than any other cancer in Western world - up 30% in 30 years
• 20,000 myeloma patients in the UK at any one time

Further information about myeloma on the Myeloma UK website.

A myspace page for the British Humanist Association

Happy Humans is the Myspace page for The British Humanist Association (BHA). The name springs from our logo, which is a funkier version of the international logo - some people say it is dancing or exercising but you can make your own mind up about that!

We represent the interests of the growing population of ethically concerned but non-religious people in the UK. Committed to human rights, democracy, equality and mutual respect, we work for an open and inclusive society with freedom of belief and speech, and for an end to the privileged position of religion in law, education, broadcasting or wherever else it occurs.