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 here.
links for 2008-09-03
Virtual Worlds & Councils A quick round up of thoughts on Local Councils in virtual worlds like Second Life. My idea of hell. It is hard enough warming concils up to the idea of leaving simple comments on blogs which link to useful information found on their website (a website which is capable of ceating …
links for 2008-09-02
Printed Blog Magazine Set to Launch | The Blog Herald Unh!? What! Why would I but a magazine about blogging? (tags: blogging stupid)
Google Reader explained by Commoncraft.
[youtube]VSPZ2Uu_X3Y[/youtube] 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.