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Interesting to see so much activity by the BBC on Flicker

http://www.bbc.co.uk/thamesgateway/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/bbc_gateway/

Thanks to a beta invite via Anne Zelenka at Webworker Daily at who recently reviewed mind mapping tools, I have been trying MindMeister an online MindMapping tool.

Its great! I am finding it really useful to be able to jump online on any PC and add to a stored map, rather than send yet another email to my home inbox with idea: in the subject or slap another sticky PostIt on the desk.

I am yet to try the Google docs style collaboration functions but this is a tool I can see my self stickiing with.

I have a few beta invites if anyone is interested, just leave a comment asking for one.

Interesting post from Daniel of chamtech : chamtech: The geek shall inherit the earth. Commenting on a Silicon.com survey into CIOs who aspire to be CEOs Daniel says:

If you look around, the most successful companies of the moment are technology-driven and have CEOs who have a deep understanding of technology and the competitive advantage it offers now and for the future.

Very true. I would add that these CEOs, especailly the former CIOs, are also the ones who can communicate, or at least understand the need to communicate, the business benefits of the technology to their investors, customers and co-workers.

Reporting here on the claims of fuel contamination being made by consumers the BBC says,

"... an AA source told the BBC traces of silicon have been found in petrol taken from the cars."

Silicon? Would that dissolve in petrol? A Silicone dissolved in petrol I could understand and the result of burning a silicone is likely to result in Silicon Dioxide (glass / sand / quartz), in any quantity that could be bad for engine performance.

So is it silicon, or have the AA and the BBC got things elementally wrong?

Update:

Daily Telegraph has just caught up with some of the science but not the spelling.

Silicon



Then Siliconee. Nearly there! Now just stop calling it an element.





Third attempt, back to silicon.



Starts with silicon, corrects to silicone in stories for Friday.