Last year, the government created a panic in many individuals when it announced that Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) could well become a pandemic in 2007. Without a tested vaccination on the market, people questioned how to protect themselves. Avian Influenza is a strain of the flu that is prevalent in w...

Last week, I posted a quick demo of how to visualise data stored in a Google spreadsheet in Many Eyes Wikified (HEFCE Grant Funding, in Pictures). The data I used was the latest batch of HEFCE teaching funding data, but Joss soon tweeted to say he’d got Research funding data up on Google sprea...

For the last couple of weeks, I was involved in helping to create a presentation at Made By Many that explained to the larger non-Twittering world what Twitter is all about. It's amazing how much there is to say in just an hour without sounding like you're from another planet. Anyway, Tom Harding, w...

If there are any particular tags you would like to see mentioned first, please let me know.And away we go! an officer and a gentleman : Not having all that much to do with the Richard Geere movie, but more to do with a life outlook, I believe an integral part of being a military officer is the idea ...

It's no secret that my principle and primary purpose for having a livejournal rests entirely on the shoulders of my own entertainment and the entertainment of others. While from time to time I drop extremely heavy content on here I am not someone who maintains a livejournal because he needs to write...

It's getting to be spring again, and the bike-bug has bit me hard once again (it's been far, far too long!) Earlier today I spent some time wandering through the motorcycle stores here in O-Town (isn't that the name of a 90s pop group?) to find myself a few new pieces of motorcycle kit when I came a...

I talk to Bill (WilliamLobdell.com) by phone Sunday afternoon. Bill: "I thought the two (religion and journalism) were intertwined. I thought God’s calling for me was to be a religion writer." Luke: "People do feel called to journalism. There is a sense that is a holy calling an...

You are not too late to enjoy the benefits of social media — you will never be too late — because the spoils in social media marketing go to the company that can maintain its social media participation over the long haul over the long term. Start now, start later, and I guarantee that if you’r...

Comment to this post and I will give you five subjects/things I associate with you.Then I'd ask that you post them to your journal and give me your thoughts on the matter.I may not answer until Thursday, mostly because I'm back in the field until then. alabastard has asked me to expand on what he ch...

by Sharon UdasinStaff Writer As Chani Lifshitz stepped on an empty stage to address at least 2,700 of her closest sisters here last Sunday, one woman was noticeably missing from the crowd — her very best friend, Rivky Holtzberg.Lifshitz spoke to a sea of women gathered at the 21st Annual Internati...