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I wonder if this is why I have been feeling the cold more than usual “They also found that volunteers who restricted their caloric intake by 25% or achieved similar results by cutting calories and upping exercise had a reduced average core body temperature at the conclusion of the six month trial. Lower body temperatures […]
Two takes on the role of the blogosphere. First post by Morgan McLintic reflects on Dale Wolf’s post based on people who are subscribed to rss feeds on Bloglines where apparently there are “only” 36,000 feeds with more than 29 subscribers. Personally I think this is a gross under estimate. As off the people I […]
Many thanks to the 41 folks who completed my survey. A synopsis of the results can be found at http://geoffjones.net/2006/04/10/the-vanspot-survey-results/
Thanks to Jyoti one of my blog commentors I found myself listening to this video on The Tube. Lawrence Lessig is one of my heroes especially in the way he is fighting for sense in the copyright debates at the moment. The video seeks to explain why the Publishers Guild v Google fight to stop […]
This is to me is pretty amazing. the BBC has released some figures on his podcasting trials. these have revealed that in Feb 2006 there were 329,888 downloads of the Radio4 programme “Today’s 8.10 interview”. Note that the Radio4 reach is 10million per week (and I would guess a middle aged audience profile) so the […]
Yesterday I inserted the code that Statcounter gave me so that I can track site visitors. Tons of interesting information and graphs.This pie chart shows the percentage of visitors who stayed for varying lengths of time. Visit Length 25 Less than 5 secs 2 From 5 secs to 30 secs 4 From 30 secs to […]
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Wow, what a great opposition we have here in the UK. If this comment by Spy Blog on the Samizdata post “We have not yet begun to fight right”, is correct.““I still can’t quite figure out what happened, but am starting to think the timing is a matter of Tory electoral and media strategy.” Has […]
Steve Rubel has some great statistics on Myspace that he received from his work colleague Marilynn Mobley. Fascinating that the take up of over 61million (Yep thats the whole population of the UK!) is as close to 50/50 Male/Female as you are likely to get. Be also interesting to know how many of the 1.4 […]
Just received this invitation from Suzanne. One of her post-doc students needs help with a survey on the way we experienced our childhood and the impact it can have on our current adult lives.:-Hello my name is Wendy and I am a trainee clinical psychologist currently in my third year at the University of East […]