Links for 2009-11-16 [del.icio.us]

• Left vs Right (World) | David McCandless & Stefanie Posavec | Information Is Beautiful
  Lovely visualisation of what it means to be "on the left" or "on the right"
• Cell Size and Scale
  Beautiful visualisation showing relative scale
• Research: Readers Favour News Micropayments—But They’ll Only Pay Pennies | paidContent:UK
  Sure, some readers will pay for online news content via single-article micropayments, but only if the price tag is very low. That’s according to a report from analysts at Continental Research, which found that 63 percent of a 500-person survey ruled out paying for online news content. Of those that would consider getting their wallets out to pay for Times Online and the rest, three quarters agreed their upper price limit was a measly 10p.
• Technology Review: Blogs: Jason Pontin's blog: How to Save Media
  If media companies can't earn money, and everyone is a journalist, it follows that "amateurs" (Shirky) and "sources" (Winer) will be part of a "decentralized" media (Winer), whose stories will be distributed by "excitable 14-year-olds" (Shirky). This is all folly and ignorance. Shirky, Winer, and other evangelists know nothing about the business of media.
• Reconstruction of US Airways 1549: "We're going to be in the Hudson" - Holy Kaw!

Links for 2009-11-15 [del.icio.us]

• How to Ship Anything - Joel on Software
• National Gallery of Art NGAkids STILL LIFE interactive
  NGAkids Still Life (Shockwave, 8 MB) helps you create interactive compositions that mirror the paintings of the old masters. This Art Zone activity is suitable for all ages. Young children can explore spatial arrangement, perspective, proportion, and balance while creating engaging, interactive still life compositions that mix everyday objects with elements borrowed from famous works of art. More advanced artists will enjoy creating complex arrangements, and then switchng to the painting mode to add and manipulate textured 'brushstrokes" that give their art a more abstract, painterly quality.
• Media Education Project
  Media Education Project investigates the role of media, information and communication technologies (ICTs) within (and for) Canadian education systems. Our assessment begins with an inquiry into current discourse that considers education theory, cultural diversity, economic inequity, and other related digital divides and the potential impacts on media education.
• Typekit
  Allows you to show real fonts on your websites, beyond the compliant half dozen.
• How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession
  Did you know how Mark Zuckerberg supported Facebook in the early days, before he got venture funding? Casino ads. And how about those advertisers who were making over $100,000 a day selling Acai Berry and other weight loss products – they are friends of mine, pioneers of new advertising channels. You see those ads saying “Inbox (5). Nick, someone in San Francisco has a crush on you!” (with your name, profile picture, and city in the ad). I generated millions of dollars from these offers on Facebook – I am not proud of it, but it was very lucrative. I will walk you through how these online scams work on Facebook and other social networks – the mechanics of how the money is made, some of the people involved, and who is actually clicking on ads. If you’re reading this article, there is a good chance that you are not the type of person actually clicking on these spam ads, but are you curious as to who actually is?

Links for 2009-11-14 [del.icio.us]

• And if only 1% of those people... | Derek Sivers
  “He forgot there was a number lower than one percent.”
• Tapity — How to build successful iPhone apps
  Hi, I'm Jeremy. Learning and sharing strategies to build successful iPhone apps.
• MustExist | What Twitter Lists Say About ewanmcintosh
• Studio 1a.m. MeasureMe Stick
  MeasureMe Stick transforms the traditional ruler into a playful, modern object. Display as an original graphic piece or use to chart your child's growth through the years. Each piece is handmade in Chicago.

Links for 2009-11-13 [del.icio.us]

• Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Alpha Release of Where Does My Money Go? Prototype
  We’ve pleased to announce the alpha release of our Where Does My Money Go prototype. This is a web application that allows you to explore UK public spending - and you can take a look here:

Links for 2009-11-12 [del.icio.us]

• Huffduffer
  Create your own podcast. 1. Find links to audio files on the Web. 2. Huffduff the links—add them to your podcast. 3. Subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds.
• The Hyperlocal News Market: Funding and Production Models | GroundReport
  Excellent weighing up of the market's four main thrusts
• Artangel | About Artangel
  Based in London but working across Britain and beyond, Artangel commissions exceptional projects by outstanding contemporary artists. Over the past two decades, the projects have materialised in a range of different sites and situations and in countless forms of media.

Links for 2009-11-09 [del.icio.us]

• Twitter / The List: Pssst. We know who won the ...
  Old media not realising the awards audience can tweet out, too: Pssst. We know who won the Scottish BAFTAs and will be announcing at 8.30 exactly.
• Twitter / Iain Hepburn: @thelistmagazine You mean ...
  @thelistmagazine You mean what @ewanmcintosh and others have been tweeting all night? Zzzzzzz
• The Standard Hotel - New York Hotel
• andré balazs properties; chic, luxury hotels and residences
  The Grace, NYC
• Room Mate Hotels - Hotel in Madrid, Granada, Malaga, New York, Miami Beach, Salamanca, Valencia, Oviedo, Madrid Hotel, Hotel Madrid, Madrid Hotels, Hotels Madrid, Hotel in Madrid, Hotels in Madrid, Madrid Hoteles, Hotel en Madrid, Hoteles en Madrid, Ho...
  Funky hotel

edinburghmsc: via @jar: part time web mediation/e-community post advert from BERA - deadline 18 November. http://bit.ly/qw5PP

edinburghmsc: via @jar: part time web mediation/e-community post advert from BERA - deadline 18 November. http://bit.ly/qw5PP

"People act different behind cameras": strangely disturbing cartoon

Via Graham Linehan's blog and Techcrunch is This American Life examining our attitudes to censorship, citizen journalism and how people change when they're behind a camera.

Links for 2009-11-08 [del.icio.us]

• Red Dog Music | Buy Roland TD9KXP Electronic V-Drum Kit
  # Advanced TD-9 module with expressive new sounds, real-audio songs and patterns # Comfortable mesh-head tom and snare pads with rim triggering # 3-way triggering for ride cymbal # Scope function with graphical LCD display # USB host for audio-file (.WAV) playback # Special cable for easy pad connections # Sturdy drum rack (MDS-9) with newly designed ball-clamps for the snare and cymbal arms and a new hi-hat mount for maximum flexibility
• Red Dog Music | Buy Roland TD4KX+P Electronic Drum Kit
• 2BOX DRUM IT FIVE E-DRUM SYSTEM - U.K. International Cyberstore

Links for 2009-11-07 [del.icio.us]

• YouTube - experiencere's Channel
  Clever mock YouTube page ad for renewable energy

Links for 2009-11-06 [del.icio.us]

• Derek's Blog » UK update #1 – computers in exams
  a project involving 14 colleges in Denmark that are piloting a new system of exams where students are allowed full access to the internet during their final exams. According to the article, in the exam, students can access any site they like, even Facebook, but they cannot message each other or email anyone outside the classroom. The Swedish government are quoted as saying, “if the internet is so much a part of daily life, it should be included in the classroom and in examinations.”
• Julian Bellamy on C4 & Creative Provocation - 38minutes
  The internet is obviously an increasingly powerful influence. But where television still just about unites, the web fragments. When social media does manage to deliver a collective experience, it’s remarkable how often it revolves around tv content. Television still has greater power than any other creative medium to influence public attitudes. And yet it is increasingly characterised by the lack of places in which mainstream audiences can engage with provocative, non-conformist ideas. If our most universal and influential medium fails to challenge and provoke, if a fear of offending the audience begins to proscribe creative freedoms, then I believe the danger to our broader cultural life is clear. Our society will become less democratic. Less enlightened. Ultimately, less free.
• Technology Strategy Board | Live Q&A Session | Live webcast
  As our Creative Industries Technology Strategy outlines, innovation is key to developing new business models for the digital future. In this live session we explore the key issues with our panel of experts and contribute to the debate.

Links for 2009-11-05 [del.icio.us]

• Culture of compliance is making British TV 'bland' says Channel 4 boss - Telegraph
  A “culture of compliance” in British television is in danger of making programmes bland, according to the head of Channel 4.
• Lesley Booth PR
• Social Isolation and New Technology | Pew Internet & American Life Project
  This Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey finds that Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People’s use of the mobile phone and the internet is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks. And, when we examine people’s full personal network – their strong and weak ties – internet use in general and use of social networking services such as Facebook in particular are associated with more diverse social networks.
• Cinque Terre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera. It is in the Liguria region of Italy, to the west of the city of La Spezia. "The Five Lands" comprises five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore.
• Excellent HTML Newsletter Templates – Best Of | Tools
• Robbing Students of Recognition | Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech
  While this confidence and self esteem can be and should be established offline even more so that online, we do a huge disservice to our students when in efforts to protect them we inadvertently rob them of the opportunity to be recognized.
• Download Keynote Tweet - A simple Applescript Application for automatically sending tweets from Apple Keynote during a presentation - Softpedia
  Keynote Tweet is a free, simple to use and open source script that provides the capacity to participate in the backchannel by combining Twitter with Apple Keynote. All you have to do is add text wrapped in [twitter] and [/twitter] tags in the presenter notes section of a slide. When that slide comes up in the presentation the script grabs that text and sends it to Twitter on your behalf. Out of the box it will ask you if you want to add any #hashtags or @mentions to all the tweets (e.g. for a conference #hashtag), and will watch your presenter notes for [twitter]twitter this[/twitter], ignoring the rest of your notes, while in presentation mode only.
• Conflict History
  Browse a timeline of war and conflict around the world
• PrairieSouth Staff Sites
  Canada does eduBuzz
• New not improved | David Airey, graphic designer
  Funny: Just because something is new, doesn’t mean it’s better.

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.

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

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

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

Links for 2009-10-29 [del.icio.us]

• Twitter / joroach: I just showed an astro-phy ...
  I just showed an astro-physicist, who studied with the father of the hydrogen bomb, how to use the printer.
• MAAD Digital Agency - Newcastle

edinburghmsc: via @sbayne: Social Media Seminar Series: Trends and Implications for Learning (Online) http://aace.org/GlobalU/seminars/socialmedia/

edinburghmsc: via @sbayne: Social Media Seminar Series: Trends and Implications for Learning (Online) http://aace.org/GlobalU/seminars/socialmedia/

Links for 2009-10-27 [del.icio.us]

• Glasgow: Scotland with style - Find a Venue

Links for 2009-10-26 [del.icio.us]

• United States Gross National Happiness on Facebook
  The graph contains several metrics. The first, GNH represents our measure of Gross National Happiness. The other two, Positivity and Negativity, represent the two components of GNH: The extent to which words used on that day were positive and negative. Gross National Happiness is the difference between the positivity and negativity scores, though they are interesting to view on their own.
• Law Primary School North Berwick Inspection 02/09/2008
  Staff created a school blog to provide information on all aspects of school life and to encourage a regular dialogue between home and school. Staff worked closely with the local authority ICT team to set up the site and then took on responsibilities for maintaining it. Pupils were given a key role in providing the content. Pupils at the upper stages displayed and gave an account of their achievements and the range of activities that they had taken part in. Across the school, pupils used the site to provide feedback on school events. At P6 and P7, a pilot programme for homework was introduced with homework tasks and links to helpful educational sites posted on the blog. The blog also helped parents to keep in contact with their children who took part in the P7 residential trip and let them know about the daily activities. Development and use of the blog has helped to promote pupils’ language, ICT and independent learning skills.
• Comicbrush
  Create and share a comic using any combination of your own drawings, photos and ready-to-use artwork. Can't draw? Not a problem. Simply choose from our library of backgrounds, characters and speech balloons, add your own text or captions… and you're done! A comic in minutes! Sign up now and share the fun. Comics can be made for iPhone, Touch or iPod
• Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn - Telegraph
  A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people's lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time. After many experiments, I believe that I now understand why some people are luckier than others and that it is possible to become luckier.
• Pixton™ - Comic Strip Creator - Make Your Own Web Comics Online
• 'Games work in education' says uni head | Game Development | News by Develop
  UK university vice chancellor says consoles can be ‘excellent learning tools’ he vice chancellor of Gloucestershire University has suggested that video games should play a role in the state education of the UK’s youth.
• Newspaper Club on the Radio | Newspaper Club
  It was a short piece about changing face of newspaper printing, the romance and beauty of the medium, and where it might be heading. Newspaper Club is featured, along with the word “flong“.

edinburghmsc: via @flittleton: New report: Choosing virtual worlds for teaching and learning in UK Higher Education. Available at: http://is.gd/4sbZM

edinburghmsc: via @flittleton: New report: Choosing virtual worlds for teaching and learning in UK Higher Education. Available at: http://is.gd/4sbZM