England – Insight Sciences

Why now is the best time to travel the world

April 30, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

Five Reasons Why There’s Never Been a Better Time Than Now to Travel the World.
Matthew Scott, expeditionportal.com

If reading about the glorious expeditions of yesteryear such as the famous Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition has you yearning for a serious overland trip, don’t worry, it’s act …

Can mental training in compassion lead to altruistic behavior and better health? (sharpbrains.com)
Discover 3.2: Sequential Segmentation Primer (blogs.adobe.com)
Adobe Analytics: Now in Online Bookstores (blogs.adobe.com)
Edward Snowden – the Globalisation of Whistleblowing (nsnbc.me)
Home, Sweet Home (Well, at least temporarily) (annagoestooxford.wordpress.com)
Google Enhanced Campaigns to Impact Google’s Ad Revenue; New Algorithms Crucial For Advertiser Success (blogs.adobe.com)
Merit Animation (designworklife.com)

FabLab Manchester

April 30, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management

Visiting Fab Lab Manchester
Andrew Sleigh, makezine.com

On a recent visit to Manchester to attend the Future Everything summit, I couldn’t pass up the chance to visit the UK’s first fab lab, housed in a striking, slab-like building in the waterside district of one of Britain’s great industria…

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10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter

January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter
By Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., with Carol E. Curtis, fastcompany.com

Whether you’re being interviewed to be an intern or a CEO, you’re going to run into a few notoriously tricky questions—here’s a road map of what you’ll be asked, and how to craft impressive answers to even the toughest questions.

No two…

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We forget a face, but not a Facebook post

January 16, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

We forget a face, but not a Facebook post
Anna Blackaby-Warwick, futurity.org

U. WARWICK (UK) — Chatty updates on Facebook are much easier to remember than faces or carefully worded sentences.A new study sheds light on how our memories favor natural, spontaneous writing over polished, edited content—and could have wi…

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Online fraudsters ‘offered services through Facebook’ (guardian.co.uk)
Literature Is Hard to Remember – Compared to Facebook (spectrum.ieee.org)

Cambridge Semantics

January 12, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

(via Cambridge Semantics – semanticweb.com)

Cambridge Semantics Named 2013 SIIA CODiE Award Finalist (virtual-strategy.com)
Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies (raygomore.wordpress.com)
The basics of the “semantic web” (lordspratticus.wordpress.com)
Next Steps For Semantic Services About Where To Eat And What You’re Eating (semanticweb.com)

Open science event in London this weekend

December 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

English: The City of London skyline as viewed toward the north-west from the top floor viewing platform of London City Hall on the southern side of the Thames. In the foreground: Dixie Queen and Millennium Time at Tower Millennium Pier. This is a 5 segment panoramic image taken by myself with a Canon 5D and 24-105mm f/4L IS lens. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net

If you’re in London this weekend, you should know that the Wellcome Trust is sponsoring a two-day bioscience hackathon with prizes awarded for the best ideas in four categories: Open Me — collecting data on yourself and making it use…

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Open science event in London this weekend

Improving science literacy: how to reach those not interested in science (scidevnet.wordpress.com)
Lessig’s TED talk on fighting corruption in politics with campaign finance reform – Boing Boing (boingboing.net)
How to break into science writing using your blog and social media (#sci4hels) (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
Kaboom for the Science Trip! (acstudiesblog.wordpress.com)
Today, we save the Internet (again): fix the CFAA! – Boing Boing (boingboing.net)

Engineering language is the key to branding across culture

November 8, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Need Branding That Transcends Cultures? Invent Your Own Language
By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

A thoughtful identity gives a multinational disease research network a new way to communicate.

Oxford University’s Clinical Research Unit is an 11-year-old network of groups that cooperate to track and prevent infectious diseases, fro…

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