Some absolutely brilliant writing in the #mscidel blogs this week. Just had a great morning of reading and commenting.

Some absolutely brilliant writing in the #mscidel blogs this week. Just had a great morning of reading and commenting.

RT @sbayne: Mobile Learning 2010 conference in Portugal next March, call for papers: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/ #ededc #mscidel

RT @sbayne: Mobile Learning 2010 conference in Portugal next March, call for papers: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/ #ededc #mscidel

#mscidel The Twitter Times generates a newspaper from your account http://bit.ly/3ojBAs - forwarded from guardiantech

#mscidel The Twitter Times generates a newspaper from your account http://bit.ly/3ojBAs - forwarded from guardiantech

Mobile Learning 2010 conference in Portugal next March, call for papers: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/ #ededc #mscidel

Mobile Learning 2010 conference in Portugal next March, call for papers: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/ #ededc #mscidel

edinburghmsc: via @sbayne: Mobile Learning 2010 conference in Portugal next March, call for papers: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

edinburghmsc: via @sbayne: Mobile Learning 2010 conference in Portugal next March, call for papers: http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

edinburghmsc: via @jar: MSc E-learning students, tell us your assessment/feedback stories! Check email, see http://bit.ly/2BVWbk or contact Jen Ross.

edinburghmsc: via @jar: MSc E-learning students, tell us your assessment/feedback stories! Check email, see http://bit.ly/2BVWbk or contact Jen Ross.

Links for 2009-11-04 [del.icio.us]

• The New York Times - Innovation Portfolio
  Just beautifully presented
• Andy Duncan: Next on Channel 4 - Telegraph
  While pundits posit a future of 3D TV and mood-based programme selection, Duncan points out that what technology is capable of and what consumers actually want to do are two very separate things. He thinks people will continue to watch an average of 25 hours of TV a week, but it will be through a mixture of broadband-enabled TVs and PCs. Interestingly, he says the more “tecchy people” who use VOD service regularly, watch even more TV than the average person – so the myth of online killing TV really could be a myth.
• swissmiss | FingerFood Ring
  Haven’t we all been wondering at one point in our lives how to balance your pig-in-a-blanket with your Dom Perignon? Fortunately, Fred&Friends has got the answer – charming little plates with rings that fit right on your finger. Now you can balance your glass and your hors d’ouevres, and look positively in control the whole time. Genius! One size fits most, ten reusable plates per handy peggable pack.
• Derek's Blog » How times change…
  2002: The question is, should we uncritically encourage students to participate in a global knowledge economy where at best a small minority only of the world’s population has access to the Internet?
• BBC’s Canvas Doesn’t Have A Monopoly On Standardising IPTV VOD | paidContent:UK
  Various worldwide competitors to the settop box Canvas chip
• BBC NEWS | Technology | The future of TV lies on the net
  Canvas, however, is touted as a platform, or a standard, allowing other broadcasters to jump on board. This may be the key difference. In simpler terms, where Kangaroo acted as a shop with selected products, Canvas will represent a shopping centre, with other outlets able to get involved.
• Inside Procter & Gamble's New Values-Based Strategy - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - HarvardBusiness.org
  Values before profit, and the profit follows
• Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things - HBR.org
  The misguided application of three financial-analysis tools as an accomplice in the conspiracy against successful innovation. We allege crimes against these suspects: • The use of discounted cash flow (DCF) and net present value (NPV) to evaluate investment opportunities causes managers to underestimate the real returns and benefits of proceeding with investments in innovation. • The way that fixed and sunk costs are considered when evaluating future investments confers an unfair advantage on challengers and shackles incumbent firms that attempt to respond to an attack. • The emphasis on earnings per share as the primary driver of share price and hence of shareholder value creation, diverts resources away from investments whose payoff lies beyond the immediate horizon. These are not bad tools and concepts, we hasten to add. But the way they are commonly wielded in evaluating investments creates a systematic bias against innovation.
• Pixar's Collective Genius - HBR Editors' Blog - Harvard Business Review
  Short article and interesting podcast insight into how Pixar make great ideas become nine hits in a row: [excerpt]: Ed and his fellow executives give directors tremendous authority. At other studios, corporate executives micromanage by keeping tight control over production budgets and inserting themselves into creative decisions. Not at Pixar. Senior management sets budgetary and timeline boundaries for a production and then leave the director and his team alone.
• Swedish government promises superfast broadband to all
  The Swedish government is following in the footsteps of the Finns (well almost), as their IT-ministry is now promising that 90 percent of all Swedish homes will have access to a 100 mbit/s broadband connection before 2020.
• The Price of Money: Say no, no, no – till your tongue bleeds
  A liquidation preference if you are not aware is the means by which the order of payback is determined at the point of a liquidity event (ie when folks might get their money like going public, or selling the business etc). Now naively you might think that if a VC bought 30% of the company then, when the company sells, they should get 30% of the money. Well, maybe. Let’s use an example. If the VC invested 300,000 for 30% then the value of the company just prior to his investment was £700,000 (”the pre-money value”) and it was worth £1,000,000 (”the post-money”) just after the investment. Thus £300,000 neatly equals 30%. But let’s say that for unknown reasons the company is sold for £500,000. Then the VC get 30% of 500,000 or £150,000. The founder who hasn’t put in any money walks away £350,000 richer and the VC walks away £150,000 poorer. Not good.
• Seth Godin: Boxed Set
  Lovely example of fun copy, and making the quite rare seem even more so: *Plus $10 Shipping and Handling. Domestic shipping by UPS ground. International shipping by US post. Please allow 6 weeks for delivery if you're quite far away. One per customer, we'll take this page down when all the boxes are sold out. Your mileage may vary, books are in English, careful of sharp edges, not for children under three years old, do not expose to open flame or read while driving. Void where prohibited (including some stuck corporations). Thanks for all the fish and please support your local bookstore this holiday season.
• Twitter / Kirstin Butler: Ooh, Central Station, a ne ...
  Ooh, Central Station, a new European art, design, and film community http://www.thisiscentralsta...
• Crime mapping for English and Welsh police forces - CrimeMapper
  Welcome to CrimeMapper. This website provides you with information on crime and antisocial behaviour in your neighbourhood, wherever you live in England or Wales. It also enables you to access and compare the latest information on a range of crime types with other neighbourhoods. You will also be able to access the details of your local neighbourhood policing team, policing priorities and information on the policing pledge.

@tconnolly1 Do avatars enjoy a dress-down policy on a Friday?! Thanks for link. #mscidel

@tconnolly1 Do avatars enjoy a dress-down policy on a Friday?! Thanks for link. #mscidel

#mscidel Seminar at ECA this evening on SL in art & design, inc. haptic application to keep your avatar under control http://bit.ly/N8nth

#mscidel Seminar at ECA this evening on SL in art & design, inc. haptic application to keep your avatar under control http://bit.ly/N8nth

#mscidel A dress code for avatars? http://bit.ly/2OUpSE

#mscidel A dress code for avatars? http://bit.ly/2OUpSE

@Kaylo_LEAPS Thanks for joining our pilot version of the leapstweet, Kaylo - hope the mentoring went well? #mscidel

@Kaylo_LEAPS Thanks for joining our pilot version of the leapstweet, Kaylo - hope the mentoring went well? #mscidel

#mscidel. Anyone want to contribute research or feedback stories to SWOP research project? http://bit.ly/2BVWbk. Would love to hear from you

#mscidel. Anyone want to contribute research or feedback stories to SWOP research project? http://bit.ly/2BVWbk. Would love to hear from you

#mscidel interesting education related discussions. Good model for overlapping, decentralized conversations. Follow #edchat.

#mscidel interesting education related discussions. Good model for overlapping, decentralized conversations. Follow #edchat.

Links for 2009-11-03 [del.icio.us]

• The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

RT @NikPeachey: 'Developing Standards for Non-Verbal Communication in Virtual Worlds' http://bit.ly/2aaqsn #edtech #elearning #mscidel

RT @NikPeachey: 'Developing Standards for Non-Verbal Communication in Virtual Worlds' http://bit.ly/2aaqsn #edtech #elearning #mscidel

#mscidel On this week's subject of portals, BBC launches site so we can follow election build up http://bit.ly/1k5NtU

#mscidel On this week's subject of portals, BBC launches site so we can follow election build up http://bit.ly/1k5NtU

@dmonp #mscidel really enjoyed sitting on the computer at http://bit.ly/3cw5Lz. Wished that I had better broadband to attend the event also

@dmonp #mscidel really enjoyed sitting on the computer at http://bit.ly/3cw5Lz. Wished that I had better broadband to attend the event also

@dmonp My first ever trip to the gym! #mscidel

@dmonp My first ever trip to the gym! #mscidel

#mscidel Two posts from J.P.Gee on assessment, perhaps useful this week?: http://bit.ly/2MEXjI and also here: http://bit.ly/rxdKW

#mscidel Two posts from J.P.Gee on assessment, perhaps useful this week?: http://bit.ly/2MEXjI and also here: http://bit.ly/rxdKW

Shocker! | Cable TV News and Public Sector Leaders: They're The Same!

Links for 2009-11-02 [del.icio.us]

• Google seeks to turn YouTube rights clash into profit | Business | guardian.co.uk
  First developed two years ago, the ContentID system is attracting record labels, TV producers and sports rights owners keen to make more money from the web. Google's computers compare all the material uploaded to YouTube – around 20 hours every minute – against "ID files" from a 100,000-hour library of reference material from the rights holders. The system creates reports of what is viewed where and how often. Rights holders then have the choice to either block their content or make money from it. That means putting advertising alongside the video and sharing the revenues with YouTube, which takes a small cut. Rights holders can also make money from links to sites selling DVDs, downloads and CDs of the original content.
• Colors #76 Teenagers
  Magazine using QR codes to unlock augmented reality content on their pages
• Beyond Locative Media
  Locative media has been attacked for being too eager to appeal to commercial interests as well as for its reliance on Cartesian mapping systems, yet if these critiques are well-founded, they are also nostalgic, invoking a notion of art as autonomous from the circuits of mass communication technologies, which we argue no longer holds. This essay begins with a survey of the development of locative media, how it has distanced itself from net art, and how it has been critically received before going on to address these critiques and ponder how the field might develop.
• Creativity At Work - HarvardBusiness.org

edinburghmsc: via @sbayne: Archive and Innovate: Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference, June 3-6, Rhode Island, USA. http://bit.ly/1kTX2M

edinburghmsc: via @sbayne: Archive and Innovate: Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference, June 3-6, Rhode Island, USA. http://bit.ly/1kTX2M

edinburghmsc: via @dmonp: Second Life "Behind-the-Firewall" mixed reality event http://bit.ly/2e5nQm held inworld on 11/04 at http://bit.ly/3cw5Lz

edinburghmsc: via @dmonp: Second Life "Behind-the-Firewall" mixed reality event http://bit.ly/2e5nQm held inworld on 11/04 at http://bit.ly/3cw5Lz

#mscidel off to gym. taking @sbayne with me to catch-up on readings while using the treadmill...doubt she'll sweat as much as I.

#mscidel off to gym. taking @sbayne with me to catch-up on readings while using the treadmill...doubt she'll sweat as much as I.

#mscidel submitted photo, int'l students check e-mail. included plug for http://bit.ly/2iBqF3 in narrative. :)

#mscidel submitted photo, int'l students check e-mail. included plug for http://bit.ly/2iBqF3 in narrative. :)