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• Links for 2009-11-29 [del.icio.us]

  One Bad Twitter ‘Tweet’ Can Cost you 30 Students | The Thinking Stick
  Here’s what private schools and international schools who are in a competitive environment need to understand. Parents and students will come to your school website for an overview, but they are going to be influenced by [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Links for 2009-11-28 [del.icio.us]

  Pop Up on Vimeo
  Pop Up, 2009, cardboard, tape, 94 x 275 x 200 cm, by Liddy Scheffknecht and Armin B. Wagner A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Links for 2009-11-27 [del.icio.us]

  Net Promoter - Resources - In the News
  On July 22, 2009 Amazon.com announced that it would purchase Zappos.com in an $847 million deal. Learn more about Zappos.com's unique approach to customer service and company culture in this short video of CEO Tony Hsieh, who spoke at the January [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• On leaving Channel 4

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  About 18 months ago I was made an offer I could not refuse: to help shape the startup of a £50m innovation fund, 4iP, with Europe's most creative public service broadcaster, Channel 4.
  
  As 4iP's first recruit in the summer of 2008, I [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:41am EST
  by Ewan McIntosh

• Links for 2009-11-26 [del.icio.us]

  C4 Invests In Political Blogger Slugger O’Toole | paidContent:UK Amnesty Blogs: Belfast and Beyond : All hail the Sluggers! Now let's free the bloggers!
  Maybe Slugger O'Toole and my colleagues in the Northern Ireland blogosphere would like to adopt their cases too and chip in with some Freedom 2.0 [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Slugger O'Toole was drunk as a rule but sober enough to keep typing: my latest investment in local political news

  

   
  

  This week I announced my latest 4iP investment in the Northern Ireland-based political blog Slugger O’Toole, in the fund’s first co-investment with Northern Ireland Screen. The investment adds to a range of [...]

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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 8:33am EST
  by Ewan McIntosh

• Links for 2009-11-24 [del.icio.us]

  Platform Alpha pre and near market innovation development digital industries University of Abertay Dundee
  Platform Alpha is an entirely new model for pre and near market innovation development for the digital industries currently under development at the University of Abertay Dundee. Register your interest At the core of the platform will [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Links for 2009-11-23 [del.icio.us]

  Twitter / peter ashe: Patient Opinion's *got* th ...
  Patient Opinion's *got* the tone right. Interesting to watch MyPolice *getting* the tone right in a different domain http://bit.ly/3qXVwF In Going Free, London Evening Standard Doubles Circulation While Slashing Costs | Techdirt
  the paper has doubled its circulation in just [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Can you help shape the future of informal learning? Apply within.

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  A group of folk who I believe are spearheading informal learning in the most unlikely of ways are looking for some help, and edu.blogs.com readers are almost certainly likely to be able to help.

  Do you undertake some informal learning already?
  Do you [...]

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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:40am EST
  by Ewan McIntosh

• Links for 2009-11-22 [del.icio.us]

  Towry Law | Independent financial planning services | Business financial planning consultants and advisors | Advice, managers and services [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Remember that there are ways and means to change behaviour

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  Via Euan I saw this lovely example of how we might think about changing behaviour, not always in the way we'd associate with those in positions of authority. Mind you, I wonder if only the Dutch Danish Police could get away with doing this...

  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:44pm EST
  by Ewan McIntosh

• Technology can help parents connect better with school

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  Becta, the UK education technology agency, has been looking into how schools communicate with parents and vice versa. Their initial research has discovered some home truths that, unfortunately, are all too recognisable:

  ‘Invisible’ parents: Of the parents who admitted they rarely made contact with [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:25am EST
  by ewan.mcintosh@blueyonder.co.uk (Ewan McIntosh)

• Links for 2009-11-21 [del.icio.us]

  BBC News - Police open up to social media
  There is no national plan to make the police use social media, but its use by beat bobbies and many other officers is about to get a boost with the creation of the MyPolice website. Set up by designers Sarah Drummond [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Links for 2009-11-20 [del.icio.us]

  Edinburgh Spotlight - Edinburgh news, reviews and information
  A fabulous new Edinburgh website written by locals on things to do, where to eat and what's on in Edinburgh [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Links for 2009-11-19 [del.icio.us]

  The Daily Start-Up: The Year Of Social Gaming - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ
  RockYou Like A Hurricane - If 2007 is considered the year of social networking, 2009 might be the year of social gaming. Companies that make games for social networking sites are already proving their worth [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Links for 2009-11-17 [del.icio.us]

  Clicker - What's On Online
  More social TV Germany gets personalised print newspaper made up of blog posts and newspaper articles
  Today I should have received my first edition of Niuu, a personalised print newspaper comprised of articles taken from various blogs and newspapers. Delivery time should be between [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• 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
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• 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 [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• 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 [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• 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 [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• 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 [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• 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 [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• "People act different behind cameras": strangely disturbing cartoon

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  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. [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:12am EST
  by ewan.mcintosh@blueyonder.co.uk (Ewan McIntosh)

• 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 [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Links for 2009-11-07 [del.icio.us]

  YouTube - experiencere's Channel
  Clever mock YouTube page ad for renewable energy [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• 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 [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• 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 [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• 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 [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Links for 2009-11-03 [del.icio.us]

  The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

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

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  I love watching Jon Stewart's continued picking apart of the bias in cable TV news, notably in Fox (the YouTube clips should suffice as explanation). Now, Seth talks about how Cable TV News' attitudes can be seen in any board room around the [...]

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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:52am EST
  by ewan.mcintosh@blueyonder.co.uk (Ewan McIntosh)

• 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 – [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Links for 2009-10-31 [del.icio.us]

  This is how to write a brief: make it brief - 38minutes
  Mick Jagger's lesser known qualities as a superb writer of briefs, the one below to Andy Warhol: Breakfast in Bed | Keep Calm Gallery
  'If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen'. Do not press [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 2:00am EST