A great animation for Steven Berlin Johnson’s book “Where Great Ideas Come From”
A great animation for Steven Berlin Johnson’s book “Where Great Ideas Come From”
Zdnet found 10 projects Google should kill after the demise of the Wave beta yesterday.
On Monday Adam and I released PalRelay. It is a solution to finding information without having to navigate the rats nest of irrelevant information often found in search results.
It is not a replacement for searching, its an enhancement that will reduce the number of irrelevant pages found by with the leverage of opinion from friends and colleagues.
It also solves issues that have been headlining recently. Taking control of your privacy and retaining ownership of your social graph. PalRelay allows you to decide who gets to know you and how they use that data. It allows you to remain completely anonymous yet should a website request personalization privileges you can choose whether to allow it or not.
The impression that personalization is universally a bad thing is a decision each individual has to decide. I like the idea that Amazon tailors its website to my likes and dislikes.
PalRelay acts as a gatekeeper to your personal information and can be used to stop commercial organisations from surreptitiously recording personal information. Equally it solves the privacy issue by allowing you, the owner of the private data to decide who gets to see it and use it.
PalRelay goes everywhere with me except secure pages (SSL addresses beginning with https such as online banking pages). Its useful while blogging too, see the following short video for an example:
The last joke left by the Mandybill government, the Digital Economy Act, may be taken to court by BT and TalkTalk, so says The Register. Let’s hope so.
At least they didn’t think it was going to be the web.
List of circular walks in East Anglia
My walks, hikes, rambles, kloofing, backpacking, excursions, treks, and walkabouts return to the starting point making it easy to plan your day.
Walks range from 5 to 15 miles and average 7. I am not a fast walker and prefer each walk to take 5 to 6 hours. I don't like roads and they only appear on my routes for transit or to cross.
I use Ordnance Survey maps and a compass. All my walks are free and come with a route card and grid references. If you have MS Word 2007+ and Mapsource from Garmin you can download a free route card generator that produces a neat list of waypoints with elevation and distance information.