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Here is a search on my name using the new idea of Google’s called searchmash It seems pretty awesome to me ranking me in the top 3 positions :-). However, as always the image searches are very poor. I have never worked out how they select images or when they last indexed them. So well done googleplex but please beef up your image search stuff.
Thanks to techmeme and zdnet for the link.
Here is Ellee on her way up in the Conservative blogging community after visiting some of her Conservative blogging friends in London last Friday see her post.
I went along as the minder and taker of the official photo. For me as an attendee at numerous tech blogging events in the past it was a bit strange.
Firstly, well these guys are Conservatives, whereas the previous folks I’ve met at events like Reboot are liberal types. eg Doc Searls and in fact the whole concept of blogging to me is liberal anti big business and media moguls.
Secondly, the deference shown to Iain Dale when he arrived. Never seen that before which was kinda weird. Kind of ‘A’ lister stuff Which Scoble(and Robert your blog sure doesn’t suck!), Winer and the other old timers object so strongly too.
But all in all it was a very good evening and Ellee sure enjoyed herself and come the next election here in the UK I’m sure her ratings will rocket too. Certainly my star blogging pupil by a long long way.
Fascinating story on how bacteria communicate with each other such as Chlorea that only produces toxins when in groups. Maybe it works for people too….
NPR : A Biologist’s Listening Guide to Bacteria: “‘So they turn on and off 100 different genes, to let them turn off behaviors that are good when you’re alone and turn on genes that are good when you are a community. And for reasons we don’t understand, the gene that lets them make this beautiful blue light is one of the genes they turn on,’ Bassler says.”
Popped into Vodafone Cambridge this morning to find they have just taken delivery of the new Treo750V . (Picture is of their dummy phone taken with my Treo650). It will be released this Sunday, 1st October, but they refused to release pricing details.
Looks and feels really sleek, slightly smaller and Nick will especially like the lack of an aerial, although I alwys found it handy for tugging the phone out of your pocket.
It presents me with a real dilemma as in some ways the windows OS might be better, especially since most digital maps used with GPS are only available for Windows 🙁 It might also integrate better with Outlook etc).
However, Eatwatch and OnlyMe only run on Palm and I suspect lots of the other nifty apps, dictionaries, Metromaps etc may not be available on Windows. It also uses mini SD cards so My Tom Tom software will be obsolete unless I can do an exchange somehow.
Just received my replacement Treo650 for the one I smashed (see the cute bulge) when I fell over catching the bus in Nice (Please don’t laugh having walked 350 miles over rough terrain – couldn’t hack a walk to the bus!).
Will be interesting to see what I do….
