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Christmas Marketing
With five weeks until Christmas, the lights are on, the fires are lit, and the major TV Ad campaigns have rolled in. John Lewis’ #montythepenguin gained over 4million views in 24hours; Sainsbury’s beautiful reconstruction of the 1914 Christmas Truce ... -
Tablets to Takeover Teaching?
“Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves” Classrooms are changing. Technological advances are transforming the way that children learn, or at least are taught. This is happening fast - there are dramatic differences betwee... -
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 ... -
Arrr! Changing tides for internet piracy
2009 has been a truly dark year for the public image of piracy. And I’m not talking about Somalian pirates, but the issue of digital rights, specifically in entertainment. It’s estimated that piracy an... -
The Age of Immorality
Are bank bonuses and MP expenses just sensationalist news fodder or genuinely a sign of our times? Do we live in a time without morals?These and other questions will be debated at the UK's first philosophy and music festival which takes place in Hay ...