Roo Reynolds

Useful roundup: "The general thinking is that teens tend to be on Twitter as observers, not contributors ... Seems like everyone has a theory on why teens don't Tweet. So here's a round up of the latest thinking..." - Roo Reynolds

"the actual DS cart ... is not the game, it is the tool. The game is out there, and by out there I mean the actual away-from-the-internet world, with your DS just the conduit that makes the magic happen. ... the game is constantly and aggressively trying to push you back into the real world, to abandon your usual routine routes and further explore -- and to work socially to identify which places around you offer the best bits of kit (ie. "the Starbucks on Main Street gives you a wicked space helmet") -- and making a game out of life itself is precisely, in the end, just what makes it such a rare and valuable gem." - Roo Reynolds

"A group of wealthy Californian bloggers are taking a holiday in the UK this month - and the taxpayer will help foot the bill. Calling themselves The Traveling Geeks, the bloggers will spend a week here meeting other bloggers. Last year they were in Israel. In addition to corporate sponsorship, they're getting a helping hand from NESTA, the lottery-funded innovation quango, and BERR, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills ... The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is lottery, rather than taxpayer funded, but UK science innovators who need funding will be curious for an explanation" - Roo Reynolds

"Instead of hiding your outlets behind furniture and worrying about the mess of wires tangled behind your entertainment center, consider making an entire wall that’s nothing but outlets." - Roo Reynolds

"Take your jumbled mess of feeds and make them one ... FeedStitch gives you the power to pull data feeds from all over the web & stitch them into a single feed ... We cover the basics with HTML and RSS, but we also speak JSON so you can republish the data however you want on your site." - Roo Reynolds