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13 JUL 09
The Ed Techie: The Keynote Equivalent? SAVE
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eing invited, and giving, keynotes is often listed as one of the marks of esteem if you are seeking promotion. The reasons are twofold I believe: Reputation - it demonstrates that you have gained significant standing in your field to be asked regularly to give a keynote talk at a conference. Impact - if you are giving the keynote then everyone at the conference hears it, and you can therefore claim a significant impact in your subject. The important element then is not the keynote itself, but what it signifies. If we start with this basis, then we can think of online equivalents. For example, if I give a talk and then put up a slidecast of that presentation, a certain number of views might equate to impact (how many people would hear a live presentation?). If the presentation is retweeted, linked to, embedded, then this might give an indication of reputation.TAGS
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12 JUL 09
Biking the Great Divide SAVE
My mate Ollie and two chums cycling from Canada to Mexico and blogging all the way... Cycling 2780 miles (4474km) from Canada to MexicoTAGS
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BBC - Today - AudioBoo SAVE
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The biggest phenomenon on the internet for the last couple of years has been video. From YouTube to the BBC's iPlayer, moving pictures seem to be what people want from the web. But could the next revolution involve something rather closer to our hearts here on the Today Programme? Websites are springing up encouraging people to record sounds and share them over the internet. One of the more successful is a British firm which has come up with a service called AudioBoo. Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones explains how the UK sound-sharing website works.TAGS
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Every quango in Britain | News | guardian.co.uk SAVE
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Did you know there are nearly 1,200 unelected bodies with power over our lives? This is the full list, complete with number of staff and how much they cost. As a spreadsheetTAGS
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CRC | Reports and Data | Rural Services Data Series: Availability of Services Output Area Data 2009 SAVE
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This is an Output Area file which contains a measure of distance from households to various services for England, this file has been made available to allow users to develop their own bespoke analysis of access to services data.TAGS
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Taverna Agia Fotini SAVE
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Situated in a secluded bay and literally perched at the water's edge, you can fall asleep to the sound of the waves after a perfect meal of freshly caught and perfectly cooked fish and a carafe of local wine.TAGS
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ITO - Compelling UK Travel Maps SAVE
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ITO provides free online products to the UK transport sector to improve the quality of key public transport datasets under contracts with the Department for Transport and Traveline. ITO can provide compelling public-facing publicity information for any location in the UK and is developing powerful information analysis and presentation capabilities.TAGS
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04 JUL 09
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker SAVE
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There are four strands of argument here: a technological claim (digital infrastructure is effectively Free), a psychological claim (consumers love Free), a procedural claim (Free means never having to make a judgment), and a commercial claim (the market created by the technological Free and the psychological Free can make you a lot of money). The only problem is that in the middle of laying out what he sees as the new business model of the digital age Anderson is forced to admit that one of his main case studies, YouTube, “has so far failed to make any money for Google.”TAGS