Mark My Words

Primary Care Trust Search Tools

I have created a Google Custom Search tool for all 152 Primary Care Trust (PCT) web sites in the NHS in England which was inspired by Ed Bennett’s (@EdBennett) search tool of over 2,800 U.S. hospitals. This tool forms part of some research I have been conducting on social media usage across all of these organisations so how about searching for “twitter” or “facebook” to see what comes up?


Bands I've Seen Live

Being quite organised, I have kept a record of every band I’ve seen live in Facebook using Extended Info. But I thought it would be pretty cool to have these grouped by year and concert. It’s hard to believe that my very first concert, Rammstein supported by American Head Charge and Raging Speedhorn, was over 7 years ago. And, that I’ve seen so many bands already! Here’s the list:

June 12-14, 2009: Download Festival - Donington Park, England

Billy Talent, Buckcherry, Clutch, Def Leppard, DevilDriver, DragonForce, Faith No More, God Forbid, Karma To Burn, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, Papa Roach, Pendulum, Sevendust, Shinedown, Slipknot, Staind, Static-X, Suicide Silence, Trigger The Bloodshed, Volbeat.

June 13-15, 2008: Download Festival - Donington Park, England

36 Crazyfists, Alesana, Alter Bridge, Apocalyptica, Ash, Beat Union, Biffy Clyro, Black Stone Cherry, Bullet For My Valentine, Coheed & Cambria, Disturbed, Fightstar, In Flames, Jimmy Eat World, Judas Priest, Kiss, LostProphets, Motörhead, The Offspring, Pendulum, Seether, The Wildhearts, Within Temptation, Zebrahead.

March 15, 2008: The Feeling - University of Leeds, England

The Feeling.

November 16, 2007: alexisonfire - Leeds Metropolitan University, England

alexisonfire, The Ghost Of A Thousand, Saosin.

October 21, 2007: Enter Shikari - Leeds Metropolitan University, England

Your Demise, Enter Shikari.

October 15, 2006: The Automatic - University of Leeds, England

Alterkicks, The Automatic, Mumm-Ra, Viva Machine.

September 8, 2006: Robbie Williams - Roundhay Park, England

Basement Jaxx, Orson, Robbie Williams.

July 14-15 July, 2006: Wakestock - Abersoch, Wales

The Automatic, The Crimea, Feeder, I-Koma, The Zutons.

May 27, 2006: Slam Dunk Festival - Leeds Millennium Square, England

The Academy Is…, Capdown, hellogoodbye, Hundred Reasons, The Hush Sound, Thursday, Fall Out Boy.

March 31, 2006: Hundred Reasons - Leeds Cockpit, England

65 Days Of Static, Hundred Reasons, Keiko.

July 3, 2005: Oasis - City of Manchester Stadium, England

The Bees, The Coral, Doves, Oasis, The Redwalls, The Subways.

February 6, 2005: Rammstein - Manchester Evening News Arena, England

Apocalyptica, Rammstein.

October 6, 2004: Unholy Alliance Tour - Manchester Evening News Arena, England

Hatebreed, Mastodon, Slayer, Slipknot.

May 17, 2002: Rammstein - Manchester Apollo, England

American Head Charge, Raging Speedhorn, Rammstein.


[The] difference between Web 1.0/2.0 search is one is indexed by machines & pulled by humans, the other is contributed by humans, indexed by machines and then pushed to humans. In the Semantic Web data’ll be learned by machines and pushed to humans.

– Mark Hawker - 7th July, 2009 made on Twitter here and here in response to the countless people who keep getting this confused.
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