Tracking changes to this blog (and lots of other things)

If you know about the wonderful world of web feeds, you'll realise that this blog has one - you might like to add it to your aggregator to keep in touch with changes.

If that last sentence might as well have been written in Serbo Croat:

• go to www.bloglines.com
  
• click on 'help' to find out what web feeds are and how Bloglines enables you to monitor them
  
• register (which will take about 30 seconds)

and then copy the web address for this page into the 'add feed' box. When you return to Bloglines you'll be able to see if any posts have been added and, if so, see if they are of any interest.

Of course, doing that much sense if you only have one site registered at Bloglines, but nearly all news sites (such as the BBC's) and blogs have web feeds which you can add to your list thus saving time logging into individual sites to find out what's changed.

Whatever you do, check back here over the next few days to discover how we're going to use the 'social bookmarking' site, Del.ico.us

The web has been described as the best idea that mankind has ever had. That may or may not be true (printing is probably right up there somewhere), but where else could you find such half baked ideas as the Christmas Robin Attracting Beret alongside just about all there is to know about everything?

Welcome to the Mindworks Blog. As the name of our business suggests, we're interested in anything related to how we think and in particular to how we learn and innovate. We'll be using the blog to post links to news items and web pages that cover developments related to these topics.

How the mind actually works is, as Bob May (former Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and President of the Royal Society) and his interviewees pointed out in his excellent Radio 4 series 'What Remains To Be Discovered', is still largely a mystery. Why is it, for example, that I'm able to remember, for example, my parent's first telephone number when there are many more useful things that I'd like to be able to recall but can't? So far as the hardware is concerned, we know that it's got something to do with the 100 billion neurons in the brain, but that's about it. The physical means by which that number (Crayford 25780, in case you're wondering) is encoded and stored is simply, as Sir Bob puts it, an unknown.