Personal MBA reading list

I came across Josh Kaufman's Personal MBA site on Lifehacker a few months back and I'm thinking it would probably be a very good personal goal to read my way through his recommended book list one title at a time .... or at least 1 book from each section :)

TED Talks : Myths about the developing world busted

This video is astounding for 2 reasons: the message and the presentation.

"You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called
"developing world."

TED is an interesting site to keep an eye on fullstop. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

The TED site makes the best talks and performances available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

Click here for more about Dr Roslin and to view his 2 TED presentations:

• Myths about the developing world debunked
• New insights on poverty and life around the world

Keeping track of blog posts

I love Bloglines! I find it the easiest way to quickly keep track of whats happening in a bunch of different places on the internet and an important way to keep developing professionally. I love the way I can scan hundreds of entries and either read them there and then, or tick the ones I want to look at later. I do this a lot as I usually check my bloglines account while watching TV (do any public librarians get time to do this during their work day?).

Bloglines works by adding 'RSS feeds' to your account. As new posts are added to the source site the headlines are fed through to the Bloglines account.

Some of my feeds are library related, some techie, and some just plain quirky. Here is a list of my favourite RSS feeds:

Boingboing, Citegeist, ComputerWorld, CoolTools, Digg, Fresh and New, Information Literacy meets Library 2.0, Koha Community, Libraries Interact, Library Journal, Library Link of the Day, Library Tech NZ, McGovern Online, PC Magazine, Programmable Web, Read Write Web, The Shifted Librarian, Slash Dot, TEDtalks, The Thinking Blog, UK Web Focus and Wired.