When I started this particular blog in July 2009 I think what I really wanted was a wiki rather than a blog - something that could be updated and edited, independently of a timescale. I am really more interested in the topic than the month or year in which I wrote it. Occasionally I've revisited a topic and wanted to link in an earlier post - because of the way in which blogs are usually used it doesn't feel quite right to make too many changes to the original post once published.
Most of my other blog posts can be found at http://jobrodie.posterous.com - these are largely emails that I've forwarded with commentary but a few are just things written by me.
Anyway, some themes explored on this blog include (full list of posts below this index):
- Archiving tweets and other social media stuff
- Diabetes / health / medical
- Library / information skills
- How to... posts: iPhone
- How to... posts: other
- Science communication
- Careers / Job vacancies
- Skepticism and woo
- Questions I've asked
- Daft notions
- Interesting talks & events / Continuing Professional Development
- Social media: often with a focus on charities / science conference, but not always
- Sound and film
- Web resources
- Geek
- Miscellaneous
- Blackheath and Greenwich / local stuff
Archiving tweets and other social media stuff
- Some quick thoughts on Storify as a mini archive for Tweets (4 May 2011)
- Screencap video that I made about Google Realtime (30 April 2011)
- Google Realtime: Finding threaded conversations on Twitter as well as year old tweets (14 April 2011)
- Trapping tweets for archiving eg at conferences, or curiosity (5 March 2011)
- How to find old tweets (5 June 2010)
- Cunning use of FriendFeed - find old tweets, yours or others
Diabetes / health / medical: (probably these posts will be moved to the accompanying blog sciencediabetes)
- Diabetes statistics bookmarked (17 January 2011)
- Not really enough evidence for NaturEra's "Sugar Crush" diabetes supplements (3 September 2010)
- PACT data - very small blogpost for @Tiamat_R and @amcunningham (19 July 2010)
- Some thoughts on literacy and health literacy (17 June 2010)
- Some thoughts on herbal remedies and diabetes (16 March 2010)
- Thiamine or benfotiamine use in people with diabetes
- Glucosamine and chondroitin: use in people with diabetes for osteoarthritis
- I am not really sure what Diabetone tablets are actually for (7 March 2010)
- Collecting clinical database information - your help needed :)
- Daniel Moerman's looking for evidence of stories about ants following diabetic urine
Library / information skills
- Another reason why I hate DOI (24 October 2010)
- Athens passwords available for some voluntary sector organisations (10 September 2010)
- Levels of evidence and grading - where do they come from? (16 August 2010)
- Literature searches: formalising search and presentation of results (2 August 2010)
How to... posts: iPhone
- Watching television and listening to radio on your iPhone
- How to transfer downloaded videos to iPhone
- iPhone screenshot or taking a 'photo' of your iPhone screen
- Mophie batteries (part one) (27 September 2009)
- Mophie batteries (part two): iPhone battery spares (16 February 2009)
How to... posts: other
- Missing desktop and taskbar - worm or windows update? Trying various fixes and reporting back (11 February 2011)
- How to unsubscribe yourself from a JISCmail mailing list (23 December 2010)
- How to read PDFs, and other docs, offline on an iPhone using Dropbox (18 November 2010)
- Testing everystockphoto script (13 November 2010)
- Tweeting dot . and at @ messages (8 November 2010)
- How to clean a loo bowl with vinegar or "without chemicals" for the hard of thinking (7 November 2010)
- Trying out the new (to me) Google Blogger stats tab (13 September 2010)
- Testing the Twitpic widget... (22 August 2010)
- How to block Facebook's Places thing (20 August 2010)
- How to block Facebook apps (6 June 2010)
- Finding things that aren't there any more on the internet, and storing things that are
- Downloading files via mild geeky skills
- All the applications I've ever blocked on Facebook (20 September 2009)
- Keyboard shortcuts
Science communication (see also CPD below)
- Episode III of #IASBB evening event - beyond science blogging (30 October 2010)
- "Bollocks Watch" - feedback to evening event at #IASBB on proactive science stories (23 October 2010)
- Beyond blogging - science engagement online #IASBB (24 October 2010)
- Parking a comment here for the science training in journalism blog (26 August 2010)
- Someone on the internet wants advice on getting into medical writing / science journalism (27 August 2010)
- Stempra event: Promoting non peer reviewed science? (17 June 2010)
- List of 'Ning: Science and Society' organisations - potential science communication opportunities (15 June 2010) [reformatted version of earlier post 'Temporary Science and Society Ning placeholder']
- Temporary Science and Society Ning placeholder
- I used to work at Science Line which was lots of fun
- London (mostly) scientific organisations
- Where London science communicators might work (24 July 2009) (also in Careers)
- Science Communication Conference - acronyms and initialisms (22 June 2009)
Careers / Job vacancies
- Making job recruitment a bit easier - suggestions (23 June 2010)
- Thoughts on job vacancies pages (14 September 2009)
- Where London science communicators might work (24 July 2009) (also added in science comms)
Skepticism and woo
- List of NHS bodies that have stopped funding homeopathy (3 February 2011)
- Do Slimweight patches work? How? (2 January 2011)
- Holland and Barrett are flogging Cho Yung tea for weightloss (22 January 2011)
- MMS - Miracle Mineral Solution - dangerous nonsense (17 September 2010)
- Bit disappointed that Greenwich Council's supporting community college woo (26 August 2010)
- Dettol kills extremophiles. Fact. (Maybe) (23 June 2010)
- FDA sends warning letters to 15 ear candle manufacturers
- Sidewiki in the service of skepticism
- Live Blood Analysis and nutritional microscopy - unconvincing so far
- #skepticmedia #singhBCA Simon Singh and BCA: audio/visual media roundup
- Letter asking insurers 'why would you cover homeopathy?' (30 January 2010)
- Strange case of the disappearing #homeopathy video? #ten23
- Yes but what's that got to do with anything? (17 January 2010)
- Google groups and file sharing for skeptics?
- Suggested use for bad science stickers
- Adhesive X-es for marking 'No' on Alpha posters
- Lewisham offers training in woo
- Hokey ear candles
- Is there a way to categorise harm (eg from woo remedies)?
- Thoughts on collating blog posts on bad health topics (20 September 2009)
- Fun with iridology (20 September 2009)
Questions I've asked
- The printed word and http:// (18 July 2010)
- Puzzling inability to access wifi - hoping it's short lived (27 June 2010)
- Question about html tags - white space under headings
- Thinking about document management as well as content management and web development software
- Sharing websites pictorially - how can I do this?
- How are we cache-ing pages?
- Query about connecting iPhone to TV (via DVD...?) (21 August 2009)
- Please help me make my FriendFeed room for 'Diabetes Twitterers' better (28 August 2009)
Daft notions
- My brilliant idea to improve the buttons you press to get off a bus (26 August 2010)
- Amnesia and computer passwords
- What if aliens just aren't clever enough
Interesting talks & events / Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Dougald Hine's talk at The Really Free School in the Bloomsbury Squat 2011 (6 February 2011)
- Temporary School of Thought - the Mayfair squat 2009 (5 February 2011)
- Nobel winner Barry Marshall and the unfriendly bacteria (31 October 2010)
- NHS Choices - Behind the Headlines: party at the Hunterian, RCS (31 July 2010)
- Stempra event: Promoting non peer reviewed science? (17 June 2010) - also added to Science Communication section above.
- I'm still a bit rubbish at stats
- Healthy journalism: challenges and solutions - seminar from Patient Information Forum, at Wellcome Trust (25 April 2010)
- Atul Gawande, the James Reason annual lecture, surgical checklists and patient safety
Social media: often with a focus on charities / science conference, but not always
- Maximising your reach: Medical charities - If you answer public science enquiries, how do you share the answers with more people? (25 December 2010)
- What's a hashtag? (28 June 2010)
- See also Geek Blogpost: Using IRC (internet relay chat) at conferences to save hashtagged tweets (19 June 2010)
- TweetNotes - tool for archiving hashtagged tweets at events and conferences etc (24 April 2010)
- Curated posts: liveblogging science conferences - my thoughts on tweeting medical research charity conferences (16 February 2010)
- Nine point guide for #charities new to Twitter #charity #nfp Health charity conferences: policy thoughts on liveblogging (13 February 2010)
- Following conference hashtag tweets in real time and saving them for later (3 January 2010)
- Krunchd - multiple URL crunching, a bit like TinyURL (1 January 2010)
- Anatomy of a tweet - 'hidden' features of tweets (31 December 2009)
- Medical research charities on Twitter (7 November 2009)
- We're going to need a bigger hashtag(s) II (5 September 2009)
- We're going to need a bigger hashtag(s) (28 August 2009)
- Twitter tips for the timid (7 July 2009)
- Watching conference tweets in real time - how best? (21 June 2009)
Sound and film
Is there a TV programmes 'incidental music' database? (3 January 2011)- BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Alchemists of Sound 2003 (29 March 2010)
- Open air cinema screens in London (11 April 2010)
- Films that use sound in an interesting way (9 January 2010)
- Birkbeck Cinema in London (31 October 2009)
- Gig-going at Goldsmith: Dorkbot (17 October 2009)
- Longplayer, based on my contemporaneous tweets (3 October 2009)
Web resources
Collaborative mapping of Greenwich's salt bins using Google maps (17 December 2010)- Graphic design and picture resources (25 February 2010)
Geek
- Finding the hidden sounds in circuit boards - circuit bending (10 February 2011)
- Abandoned Britain - half day nerd trips (24 October 2010)
- Blogpost: Using IRC (internet relay chat) at conferences to save hashtagged tweets (19 June 2010)
- A lovely time at #DorkbotLondon 66 (17 February 2010)
- Analogue Sound Workshop (22 August 2009)
- Geeky creative things in London (16 July 2009)
Miscellaneous
- Blog stats for this blog (23 January 2011)
- I think I need a bit more information for ISS passes (4 September 2010)
- Childish fun with our library book stock (14 August 2010)
- Paper clips in the service of medical science (22 July 2010)
- Last minute Christmas gifts (24 December 2009)
- Parking a comment here that I tried to add to another person's blog (26 November 2009)
- One reason why I don't have much time for psychometric questionnaires (23 December 2009)
- Climate Camp - Blackheath / Lewisham / Greenwich residents' meeting (19 September 2009)
- Public engagement with DIY technology - wind turbines (30 August 2009)
- Perseid meteors (11 August 2010)
- Choice architecture and paper saving (17 July 2009)
- Collaborative mapping of Greenwich's salt bins using Google maps (17 December 2010)
- How to get out of Blackheath - travel plans (19 December 2010)
- A fail for #Southeastern and a micro win for Twitter (16 December 2010)
Posts
