October 2009

Halloween playlist

  • October 28, 2009 at 11:28 am
  • Categories: Fun stuff

  • I’ve set up a Spotify playlist for Halloween. Predictable I know, but fun.
    It’s collaborative (meaning you can add to it yourself, if you have a Spotify account). So go on, add some songs to our Halloween playlist and get other people to as well.

GoodMorning!

  • October 22, 2009 at 6:00 pm
  • Categories: Sheep Dip

  • Jon Bounds just tweeted this, which is just stunning:
    “GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying ‘good morning’ in English as well as several other languages.”

    GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo.
    Visit [...]

Can a private network name breach public indecency laws?

  • October 1, 2009 at 9:32 pm
  • Categories: Ramblings

  • Yesterday my iPhone stumbled upon a wireless network with a very vulgar name. It made me think: if someone found that offensive, could the owner be charged with public indecency?
    It’s a curious (albeit pretty boring) question: because the network owner would, I suspect, presume that their wifi name is confined to the privacy of their [...]

Futurelab Citizenship podcast

  • October 1, 2009 at 12:01 pm
  • Categories: Sheep Dip

  • Citizenship Foundation CEO Tony Breslin talks to Futurelab's Cassie Hague about the role of citizenship education, technology, and the need to look for greater opportunities to encourage young people to become active citizens.
    Visit Futurelab Citizenship podcast

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