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Doug Belshaw PELeCON 2013 Keynote (by PELeCON Plymouth)

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:30:27 +0100

Doug Belshaw PELeCON 2013 Keynote (by PELeCON Plymouth)

Understanding Crowd Behaviours | Cabinet Office

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:11:55 +0100

Understanding Crowd Behaviours | Cabinet Office:

In 2008 the Civil Contingencies Secretariat commissioned Leeds University to produce a series of research reports collectively titled ‘Understanding Crowd Behaviour’. These reports are now being published as part of the body of UK Civil Protection Guidance.

While definitive, precise and infallible rules for event preparation and crowd management simply do not exist, these reports have distilled and interpreted what represents good practice and they will provide planners with clear direction, and supporting information, about the assumptions that can very reasonably be made about crowd behaviour.

I love this from Brad Ovenell-Carter. I’d hang this on my...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:39:01 +0100

I love this from Brad Ovenell-Carter. I’d hang this on my wall!

"As a rule of thumb, if your success depends on infrastructure that you neither own nor control,..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:30:34 +0100

“As a rule of thumb, if your success depends on infrastructure that you neither own nor control, it’s going to bite you in the ass.”

- Twitter / paniq: As a rule of thumb, if your …

NHS | Health Apps Library

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:11:28 +0100

NHS | Health Apps Library:

Safe and trusted apps to help you manage your health

"A bad analogy is like a blind monkey flying a plane. The seats are small, the monkey is brown, and..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:01:55 +0100

“A bad analogy is like a blind monkey flying a plane. The seats are small, the monkey is brown, and the analogy makes literally no sense.”

- Twitter / hotdogsladies: A bad analogy is like a blind …

(via Badge Design Canvas | DigitalMe)

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:01:13 +0100

(via Badge Design Canvas | DigitalMe)

2012 Book Archive

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:09:16 +0100

2012 Book Archive:

First off, this is not the website for the original publisher. Instead, this is the archive of a small project by Andy Schmitz to archive Creative Commons-licensed copies of all the books which were available online from a specific publisher at the end of 2012. (That publisher has asked to remain unnamed here. For more information, see the attribution page.)

tahoe-lafs

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:42:17 +0100

tahoe-lafs:

Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open cloud storage system. It distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to function correctly, preserving your privacy and security.

Quib.ly

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:03:31 +0100

Quib.ly:

Give your kids a head start in this connected world

We want to help parents to keep up with the opportunities and challenges of raising happy, healthy, well-balanced children in a connected world… one question at a time.

Pagekite - The fast, reliable localhost tunneling solution

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:01:25 +0100

Pagekite - The fast, reliable localhost tunneling solution:

The fast, reliable way to make localhost part of the Web.

PageKite makes local websites or SSH servers publicly accessible in mere seconds, and works with any computer and any Internet connection.

It’s also 100% Open Source.

"Swarm Cooperatives are temporary social structures we create to solve problems, explore new ideas,..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:46:21 +0100

“Swarm Cooperatives are temporary social structures we create to solve problems, explore new ideas, and make the most of opportunities. You can think of Swarm Coops as “constructive flash mobs.” Common examples include unconferences, bar camps, hackathons, crisis mapping, and free schools.”

- The Evolution of Swarm Coops: our June 1 workshop | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution

Getting Started with Open Badges | Air Mozilla

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:19:59 +0100

Getting Started with Open Badges | Air Mozilla

(via @gavinsmart on Twitter)

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:30:23 +0100

(via @gavinsmart on Twitter)

Hacking the Chromebook for Fun and Profit | Martin Hamilton's blog

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:15:19 +0100

Hacking the Chromebook for Fun and Profit | Martin Hamilton's blog

dnschneid/crouton · GitHub

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:10:28 +0100

dnschneid/crouton · GitHub:

crouton is a set of scripts based around debootstrap that bundle up into an easy-to-use, Chromium OS-centric Ubuntu chroot generator. It should work for Debian as well (you can specify a different mirror and release), but “Chromium OS Debian Chroot Environment” doesn’t acronymize as well.

TiddlyWiki5 — a non-linear personal web notebook

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:25:54 +0100

TiddlyWiki5 — a non-linear personal web notebook:

TiddlyWiki5 is a reboot of TiddlyWiki for the next 25 years. It is a complete interactive wiki in JavaScript that can be run in the browser or on the server under node.js.

weblitstd: Weekly Community Call: 6th May 2013 In...

Tue, 07 May 2013 14:00:53 +0100

weblitstd:

Weekly Community Call: 6th May 2013

In this week’s community call we started digging into the skills underneath the competencies in the ‘Connecting’ strand.

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/weblitstd-community-29apr13

Discussion around this topic is ongoing in last week’s Google Group thread:

http://bit.ly/weblitstd-6may-conversation

Please comment on the first, extremely rough draft of the skills we came up with on the call at this Google Doc: http://goo.gl/qsV0C

These resources are backed up at the Internet archive

How transferable are coding skills to other domains? Why is learning a little code important? (#teachtheweb) | Doug Belshaw's blog

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:30:30 +0100

How transferable are coding skills to other domains? Why is learning a little code important? (#teachtheweb) | Doug Belshaw's blog

Things I Learned This Week - #97

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:38:16 +0100

Things I Learned This Week - #97:

This week featuring the human body as a secure, low-power data channel… and a cat dressed as shark on a Roomba chasing a duck.