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Today I watched the short animated film about John Baskerville, showing as part of Birmingham’s Hello Digital Festival. That was this morning, and I’m still unsure what the point of it is. The film was showing on a loop, and the first time around it was missing the narration track. Whether this was intentional I [...]

I’ve just noticed that my spam filter picked up a comment that may well be spam, but then again may not be. The original post concerned a ruling that the brand Welsh Dragon Sausages should no longer be used, because people could be misled into thinking the product really was made from dragons. The comment [...]

Much has been debated about the merits of blogging: as journalism; as a mouthpiece for the masses; as a platform for the literate and illiterate alike. But what about as a therapeutic activity? Or, rather, as a creative outlet for those of us who may sometimes be uncomfortable in traditional social situations? I’m not going [...]

Last night I went to Education Unbound 2008, a debate on ‘how social technologies are blurring formal and informal learning‘. The panel comprised Dan Sutch (Futurelab), David Noble (Hillside School, Fife), Andy Gibson (School of Everything) and Catherine Howell (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies). It was chaired by Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor at Channel [...]

I have just made a complaint to IBM. Dominic Campbell drew my attention to the way IBM uses the term ‘social innovation’ on one of their websites and I too took exception to it. So I used their online contact form to send the following message. Let’s see if they respond. Sir/Madam, I am very [...]

Quite often I hear advice to the effect of ‘Don’t express online what you wouldn’t be happy defending offline’. I agree with this insofar as it protects the writer, but I no longer agree with it as an attitude with which to approach the web. If (as I have written before) we should be willing [...]

Social ‘interaction’ is something I’ve never really got the hang of, and now with the internet thrown in it’s so much more confusing. I’ve just posted an item to Twitter that on re-reading I realised might be taken the wrong way by some people, so I posted another apologising if that was the case and [...]

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