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Re: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: Can we attribute 36% of premature deaths to "socioeconomic inequality"?

ShaneMcC — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:03:25 -0000

Venezuela is the 25th most unequal country by income. UK is 106th. More equal than UK you'll find Japan, Sweden, Norway, Finland and a few others who also happen to have lower levels of premature death.

Re: How GearShift can help you manage your cashflow more effectively

ShaneMcC — Tue, 12 May 2015 04:44:32 -0000

Hello Alex and Gearshift, any news on that pricing update?

Re: How GearShift can help you manage your cashflow more effectively

ShaneMcC — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 04:47:08 -0000

GearShift looks like an interesting product and probably great value for accountants using it for 50 companies or so.

I'd love to integrate it with my KashFlow account but at £35 a month compared to £15 per month for KF it seems extremely expensive. Is there a price reduction for KF users in the offing?

Re: Links for #UoBSocial briefing session on blogging

ShaneMcC — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 10:28:38 -0000

Google Reader RIP

Re: Auto enrolment will cost British businesses £15.4bn

ShaneMcC — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 07:32:53 -0000

If I wanted to read a press release from this consultant I would have gone to his website not the DT - did you try talking to anyone else?

Re: P2PU | Teaching Open-Ended Learning and Research | Example: I Am a Scientist

ShaneMcC — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 04:45:48 -0000

Thank you for the write-up. It is so useful to read how other people write up the event in their own words, and often so much better than we can manage. Too close to it.

There are a couple of corrections though. Each zone will have on average 15 classes take part. And the link at the end should be http://berylliumj10.imascie...

Re: Internal Communications in a Growing Startup

ShaneMcC — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:53:12 -0000

Keep going Duane. It is fun to read your about the inside story too.

Re: Dreams can come true

ShaneMcC — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:12:46 -0000

Brilliant. Am delighted that UK Govt is supporting an innovator like you. This perseverance business is beginning to pay off ;)

Re: Preaching to the unconverted

ShaneMcC — Fri, 06 May 2011 05:32:27 -0000

Perhaps if the Daily Mail complain about use of their name you can title the posts "Questions containing the words 'just' or 'simply'."

Normally amounts to the same thing.

Re: MPs believe the funniest things

ShaneMcC — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:24:58 -0000

There are a few medical doctors: Dr Liam Fox, Dr Andrew Murrison for starters. Would be interesting and useful to have a full list though.

Re: MPs believe the funniest things

ShaneMcC — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:23:17 -0000

Jamie, It isn't about Scientists bearing a share of the pain. The point is that cutting science research will increase the long term pain for the country permanently. As a country we need to be technologically advanced to maintain a level of global competitiveness. Funding science research is the way to maintain a lead over low wage economies.

Re: Speed cameras

ShaneMcC — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 12:44:25 -0000

One thing you've not touched on and I've not seen (nor looked for) research on whether speed cameras make some drivers less safe because they spend so much time checking their speedo and looking for big yellow boxes on sticks, rather than watching the road.

Re: Gladwell on Social Media and Activism - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

ShaneMcC — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:42:27 -0000

Gladwell made the point that because the tweets were in English they weren't genuinely from Iran. My point is that being in English doesn't mean they aren't part of the revolution - just the part aimed at raising international awareness of the revolution.

Of course you can argue that international awareness has no part in the revolution, but that is another argument.

Re: Gladwell on Social Media and Activism - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

ShaneMcC — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:48:27 -0000

Gladwell's point about the #iranelection tweets being written in the west is also mis-understood. Protesters all around the world use english signs in demos (http://www.indymedia.org/im... so that any pictures or video can be understood by people in the west to build international pressure on the regimes they are protesting against. In the same way iranian tweeters used english so that the news of the protests in Iran got out to the west.

Re: Sit down and be counted?

ShaneMcC — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:07:18 -0000

There is another fundamental reason why internet voting cannot be trusted. Our electoral system is supposed to involve a secret ballot whereby we can be sure that votes are not cast under coercion. Remote voting, like postal voting, cannot guarantee this.

Re: On risk

ShaneMcC — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:26:32 -0000

Your post reminds me of a conversation I had a few years ago about playground risk: http://www.gallomanor.com/2...
Whilst we removed all that danger we perhaps forgot the other damage we could be causing - hampering learning significantly. H&S also reduces people ability to assess the risks themselves.

Perhaps what your professor meant was that we should avoid the mis-use of H&S regulations (and Data Protection) that prevent people from doing their jobs and/or enjoying their lives. By mis-use I mean quoting H&S because it is easier than working out the best answer.

And taking your goggles issue further...

Surely the answer isn't to ban googles but to warn kids to look for problems with their goggles?

Re: iCharity: an obvious idea

ShaneMcC — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:53:28 -0000

I can see both sides of the argument. I understand people's frustration at not being able to build a donate button into their app. It 's their app, why shouldn't they be able to do so. I can see Apple don't want to open the door to a proliferation of donate buttons in apps when the mechanism of paying for the app exists so nicely.

I can see more merit in the argument that Apple should reduce their fee for charities from 30%. I wouldn't argue for 0%, most charities accept the need for admin costs, it's just that 30% seems high.

BUT, to be honest as a campaign this doesn't float my boat because I don't feel there is a shortage of ways to use your iPhone to make a donation. Text, web page, phone call, email pledge.

It feels more of a campaign that non-profits will wage but will it get widespread public support. Perhaps, but it isn't exciting me this afternoon.

Re: Tracking comments on your Flickr photos by RSS

ShaneMcC — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:20:12 -0000

The easiest way is clicking on Recent Activity on www.flickr.com, then More Options and that page has a feed with your comments on.

It says it is new - not sure how new - but on the very infrequent times I get comments it pops up in google reader.

Re: Dale and Guido 'not invited' to G20 - Press Gazette

ShaneMcC — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:16:42 -0000

I was the project manager on G20Voice and therefore was involved in the selection process. I thought you'd like a few things cleared up.

1. G20Voice was set up by a group of NGO's including OxfamGB, Save the Children, and ONE. It was supported by the Government (or it couldn't have happened) but it is not a government project.

2. The Govt was not involved in choosing bloggers apart from DFID asking for a couple of their young reporters to be involved. As the NGOs and DFID have worked together on projects before, that was not going to be a problem.

3. We set ourselves targets for our 50 bloggers which included getting one from each G20 country, getting bloggers with a focus on developing world issues and climate change and having an eclectic mix of bloggers. We were also very aware that the blogosphere would have an opinion on who should be there so we asked for nominations. We had 700 nominations in 12 days from around the world. We publicised that nomination process through our own channels and through writing to some specific bloggers including Iain Dale. Neither Paul Staines, nor Iain Dale received a nomination.

4. "None of the top 20 bloggers were invited" - I'm curious as to what you mean by Top 20 bloggers. We had Richard Murphy, the no. 1 blogger on Tax Havens. We had Daniel Kaufmann, the No.1 blogger on governance and corruption. We had Daudi Were, a leading African blog organiser. We had Ahmed Al Omran, a Top 20 Saudi blogger. We had 2 contributors to the Huffington Post the No1 blog in the world. To compile a Top 20 of bloggers is a strange phenomena when one of the striking features of blogging is the fragmentation of media and the increasing irrelevance of charts and gross numbers of readership.

5. As both Paul and Iain have implied, neither would really have wanted to given up their Thursday to sit with Tom Watson and the rest of us. We had a fabulous bunch of bloggers who spanned the globe with a rich mix of styles and expertise. I'm sure Paul and Iain are pleased that another bastion of press monopoly has been breached by having bloggers within the G20 and being called upon to ask questions including at the main summit press conference.

Let's not try to create a fuss where none exists. Surely no serious journalist would want to do that?

Re: Live from G20 Voice in London | Blue State Digital

ShaneMcC — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:20:33 -0000

It was great today. We brought together a mix of bloggers spanning the globe, fed them some information and let them get on with networking, listening and talking.

Tomorrow is going to be a BIG day. Should be very exciting.

Re: Status of UK Local Councils Facebook Fan Pages and Groups as of 22nd July 2009

ShaneMcC — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:31:06 -0000

Liz,

Just want to say how good it is to see someone publish their results freely. It hacked me off no end to be asked by an academic a while back for information and then to find he published it in a journal that cost £00s to buy.

So well done and keep going!

Shane