Kate Carruthers

The question of whether or not people of our time are resilient enough to deal with adversity like previous generations was a topic of discussion at one of the Girl Geek Dinner's last year.  It reminded me to dig out these favourite quotations. "We are what we

Here in a TED talk Susan Blackmore discusses how humanity has spawned a new kind of meme. She argues for the teme, which spreads itself via technology, and invents ways to keep itself alive.  This is a very provocative argument and is worth a look. http://video.ted.com/assets/

All those top 50 or top 100 Twitter user lists that enumerate the so-called Twitterati sort of annoy me. In fact, they annoy me so much that, a while back, I created Yet Another Twitter Top 100 List . How do you get on this list?  You just add yourself

I've been a big fan of telling as many people as possible about my goals so it is harder for me to back out of them.  Also getting people to join in with me is very helpful.  It is encouraging when there is more than one person working

When I first started to use Twitter there was a small and fairly tight knit group that I followed and who followed me back.  It really felt like a community and there was a sense of intimacy.  The feeling of intimacy was supported by meeting with a lot of these