Dr Deborah Rhodes on Medical Breast Imaging
Oct 18
Education and free access to a store of knowledge is one of the wonders of the modern age, but if you don’t know where to look or what to look for then how do you educate yourself? Trusting that the people you depend on for healthcare will educate themselves in order to provide you with the best, the most up-to-date and the most effective treatments available is what we do. We rely on the...
Where Are The Worlds Media?
Oct 10
You live in a bubble. A bubble of your own making that is filled with the interactions you have each and every day. You expand your bubble through exposure to media whether you use printed newspapers, blogs, RSS readers, Google news, the tabloid press or the national news outlets on tv and radio. So, what happens when those media outlets decide not to show you the news. How small is your bubble...
Adjustable Glasses
Oct 01
Some ideas are just too good not to discover. If you wear glasses or have worn glasses for any length of time then you have certainly spent a whole load of cash on new pairs every two years or so. You may even be tired of renewing your glasses and all the hoopla that involves. If you live in the developed world you can probably afford new glasses every other year and you probably pay way more...
Ordinary Everyday People – Silent Bob and Google Plus Users
Sep 16
It’s definitely here to stay and quietly and inexorably Google Plus is building, marching on, adding features and functions and integrating other Google properties. Social Media professionals, internet marketing gurus and self or product promotion experts are everywhere, and at first glance it does seem as though the only people being followed or being added to circles are the well known...
Algorithms – The Future of the World
Sep 14Most of us know that Google uses algorithms to ensure they present you with relevant search results. Information, images and data that is relevant to what you are searching for when you use Google’s search bar. The google algorithm is probably the best known of all algorithms and there is much debate about it’s effectiveness and whether google does or doesn’t get it right. But...
Trapped in Your Online Filter Bubble
Sep 14
Eli Pariser of the progressive organization MoveOn says the Internet is hiding things from us, and we don’t even know it. In this TED Talk he calls out Facebook, Google. and other corporations who are transforming the Internet to suit their corporate interests. Does this strike a chord? Eli does seem to hit the nail on the head with this one. Particularly in respect to Facebook and possibly...