Have recently come across the Livestrong Calorie Tracker App for the iPhone via this months UK edition of Wired
Admittedly, the GUI isn’t perfect and it’s started to intermittently crash when used in the last couple of days but as a way of tracking your calorific input it’s been pretty good so far.
I think it has much to offer regarding wider health benefits and applications in QOL improvement and dietary management as it’s pretty easy to use.
It seems that we’re reaching a tipping point regarding the positive and negative views of Facebook and this Wired article is very interesting alongside the various campaigns that are starting to emerge regarding quitting it – time to choose a side…..
An interesting article in the new UK edition of Wired – “The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and Happiness”. The article discusses how social networks might influence health and happiness and has links to Tajfel’s theory of Social Identity (one of four theoretical frameworks that I’m looking at). It relates to a new book Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives which has just been published and looks like a good read (not out in the UK until 2010 though)…..
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you’ve learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you’ve forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you’re about to forget…….
Wired Article : Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
The details on a creative scheme by filmmaker JJ Abrams….
Source : Wired
The recent Wired article on Second Life has provoked some controversy – here’s an answer from their editor-in-chief
Source : Roo Reynolds
Would you reveal your deepest, darkest secrets online?
Source : Wired
Great Wired article on a new virtual reality treatment for shell-shocked troops coming back from Iraq with snakes in their heads…..
