links for 2009-11-18
19 November 2009
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Classes on goodies and baddies, endless rows about jokes in poor taste . . . is an increasingly cautious BBC suffocating new comedy and drama? Mark Lawson on the climate of fear at Broadcasting House
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"Twitraunts", are in fact small trucks, fitted with rudimentary kitchens, which nip from street corner to street corner, like a traditional burger van. At the same time, they "tweet" their every move on the modish micro-blogging website, prompting vast flash-mobs of iPhone-toting customers to converge wherever they stop.
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When a lecturer made a video of himself marking essays, the world of academia realised he was on to something.
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ilikeucoz is the 'love child' of founder Fabio De Bernardi, who – like many of us – was stumped when his girlfriend asked, 'Why do you love me?' Floundering for the single perfect answer, he decided that for one month, he and his girlfriend would write down something they like about each other every day, ultimately revealing the true essence of their love. Out of this challenging labour of like, the idea for ilikeucoz was born.
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The mere promise of Google Wave inspired a rainbow of potential use cases, but Wave's best real-world use boils down to this: it helps a group get things done together. Here's how to manage a group project in Wave.
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Networking sites of commissioners of children and young people's services are expanding as professionals see the benefits of having advice, support and a place to share expertise readily available at all times
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Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking website, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed ultra slim and flexible electronic circuits on silk that dissolve once implanted inside the body leaving the electronics behind to do their thing.
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Aleksandr Orlov, the billionaire meerkat made famous by his comparison website, comparethemeerkat.com is turning his paw to presenting for a brand new monthly “Meerchat” podcast which launched with Hollywood legend David Hasselhoff.
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From hapless fugitives friending detectives to daft employees offending their bosses, MSN rounds up the stories that serve as a lesson on how not to use Facebook.
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Social networking sites including Twitter and Facebook could be used by clinical staff to support mental health patients.
The Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which provides services to people with mental health problems, is currently testing out a range of ideas aimed at reducing costs and improving its quality.
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If the multibillion-dollar e-mail security industry has been built to prevent information from seeping out through personal communication, how is social networking in the workplace still going unchecked? After all, consumer social apps such as Facebook and Twitter provide the same information-leakage threat as unsecured, personal e-mail–possibly more, thanks to the viral impact of broadcasting news tidbits to one's network of friends in real-time.
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Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even all that new. Instead, the list includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their own and haven't yet seen widespread adoption as well as the already common technologies that are still experiencing growth.
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The government has laid out its plans to deal with illegal file-sharers as part of its Digital Economy Bill, outlined in the Queen's Speech.
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Twitter is never far from a journalist’s lips these days. If they’re not complaining about the threat of citizen journalism and the death of proper writing, they’re extolling Twitter’s virtues (or whining that they just don’t get what all the fuss is about).
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It's November 2009 and we're nearing the end of a decade. It's been a tumultuous time of change for many industries, much of it driven by the Internet. The newspaper industry has been particularly affected by the Web. Over the past 10 years, news media has undergone a seachange akin to the invention of the printing press in 1440.
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t’s good to reference some events but there are billions of people online. I think we can find more “stories” then the same ones we nick from Slideshare each day.
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Sometimes it can be hard to see the messages a movie teaches, especially if they’re unintentional. The best way to see a movie’s messages, the bad ones in particular, is to be a parent watching the movie with your kids. Suddenly you find yourself talking to your kids after you leave the theater or after the video finishes playing at home, just to see if they picked up on the bad messages. Then, if they did, you can try to do some damage control.
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Media agencies debate the consequences as usage among younger consumers appears to slip
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