In my posting Dying newspapers head for the online ‘panic room’ (Auricle, 1 September 2009) I argued that newspapers are caught between a “rock and a hard place”. Their current business model is failing because of the internet but yet a compensatory move online is confounded, so the press barons would argue, due to a […]
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BBC undertaking “open source” documentary on Web
November 29th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 29 November 2009 The BBC has a new intiative underway with the working title Digital Revolution.. They are in process of producing a new four part documentary about how the Web is transforming the world and they intend to open up as much of the production process as possible. It’s an interesting […]
The World does the Google Generation
October 25th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 25 October 2009 The BBC has many irons in many fires but one of its more understated initiatives is The World which is a collabration with WGBH Boston and the US PRI. The World also produces a technology podcast which quite frequently contains some gem informed by scholarly work. Such was the […]
Digital Britain report published – read carefully
June 21st, 2009
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by Derek Morrison (originally posted 18 June 2009, updated 21 June, and 8 July 2009) The UK government’s Department of Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) published the final version of its Digital Britain report yesterday (16 June 2009). Under normal circumstances it would perhaps merit some passing interest from media watchers but I think recent […]
The Periodic Table of Videos
April 25th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 25 April 2009 In November 2008 I posted a three part series with the theme On the video – a reflection on YouTube and friends in which I mentioned the University of Nottingham’s Periodic Table of Videos. While I was attempting to catch up on my backlog of podcasts one of which […]
Audio: for the discerning learner
March 12th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 12 March 2009. I’m a big fan of speech radio so my attention was attracted to the short article Knowledge via radio: Learn in waves (Times Online, 8 March 2009). Later in the week I listened to a really interesting programme in the BBC Radio 4 Analysis series called Clever.com (BBC Radio […]
Project Canvas
March 7th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 7 March 2009 The BBC’s iPlayer is undoubtedly successful but yet the service constrains its users to viewing its streamed or downloaded material on a computer. Not for much longer apparently. Over on the BBC Trust site we find an account of Project Canvas which in essence seems to be broadband connection […]
Digital Britain? Going beyond the digital dirt track?
January 30th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 30 January 2009 (updated 14 February 2009 The UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport published the Digital Britain – Interim report yesterday (29 January 2009). It’s notable that the “white heat of technology” ethos still reigns supreme in this report, e.g. Download article as PDF
