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August 30 2011Read more
'Your' Digital Journalism?
Is print dead? This has been constantly asked, re-asked and over-analysed during the last few years with the expansion of current media developments. However, focusing on the traditional newspaper’s death sentence precludes us from examining the real... -
February 15 2011Read more
The Ethics of Hacktivism
As the court trial over his extradition to Sweden kicked off last week, and with Panorama exploring his leadership and motivations, again WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has found himself amongst the headlines. His controversial actions have provoke... -
January 27 2011Read more
2011: A Belated Preview
Glancing through the myriad predictions which are spat out every January (“The 37.5 Biggest Things in Digital in 2011!”), an interesting trend emerges – namely, counter-trends. 2011, say some commentators, will be the year that people turn off. The a... -
November 03 2010Read more
Making a hash of it: The (diminishing?) power of words
At the risk of sounding like an Edwardian school boy, I think Twitter is magic. I mean this in the supernatural sense (fitting, as it was Halloween last weekend). The mysteries of the internet have always struck me as evidence of occult intervention ... -
September 03 2010Read more
Facebook Places and serendipity
Most of you will be familiar with Foursquare, which allows its users to check-in at various places around town, and share favourite locations with their friends in real-time, while they’re already at the pub, the park or the gig. The point is to co... -
August 04 2010Read more
Blog round-up
More nuggets from the blogs...Twitter to show photos and videos in the stream: Twitter experimenting with inline multimedia, but ‘Tweet Media’ setting was only an experiment. http://mashable.com/2010/07/26/tweet-media/What do you get from participat... -
April 22 2010Read more
Blog round-up
We at Open CC like to keep abreast of the latest developments in our sector - and one of the ways in which we do this is to keep a keen eye on some blogs that we like.We have an internal newsletter which features the headlines from these blogs.We tho... -
March 25 2010Read more
Chatroulette: What's it good for?
Even the most casual visitor to the blogosphere will by now have read about Chatroulette, the website which indiscriminately matches strangers with each other and allows them to conduct webcam-assisted conversations. Disconcertingly for anyone writin... -
March 19 2010Read more
A touching gesture
So a recent Geek Dad post on Wired.co.uk asks us whether children are getting spoiled by touch screen technology. It raises an interesting point, particularly in the context of Adam Standings description of catching his son: "smearing his hands all o... -
January 19 2010Read more
A good BETT: Reflections on this year’s Show
As the dust settles on this year’s BETT Show, bloggers have been frantically sharing their thoughts on the 2010 instalment of the educational technology behemoth.It was my first time. I had been given many warnings as to the overwhelming nature of an...
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