I have read it (so has Sam I think). It is well worth reading through (at least quickly) to see the range of ideas. There are some good, fairly fundamental, things to think about e.g. encouraging social spaces, flexible spaces, group learning spaces etc. There are also some videos of some british learning spaces somewhere - I'll see if I can find the link.
Netvibes enables you to pull together various RSS feeds and other sources of information - you can now create multiple homepages - could be very useful, might use it for PGCAP