by Derek Morrison, 21 November 2009 Here’s a reflective activity. If you dear reader haven’t done so then read the following in the order suggested (the really motivated can also follow the embedded hyperlinks 🙂 Digital Britain report published – read carefully (Auricle, 21 June 2009) ‘Ooooo’ comes after ‘Eeee’? (Auricle, 24 & 25 June […]
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My mind is going, going, gone … oh no it hasn’t
November 14th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 14 November 2009 Here’s definitely one for my techno-dysfunctions category. At 18m 30s into The World’s technology podcast 263 there was an interesting interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger about his book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2009). The Princeton Press site also offers a link to […]
Higher Education Framework published
November 4th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, first posted 4 November 2009 updated 5 & 17 November 2009 N.B. The views expressed in this posting are the product of this author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. Lord Peter Mandelson’s super-ministry the Department for Business Innovation and Skills […]
Open opportunties, open threats? – Postscript
October 5th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, originally posted 1 May 2009, updated 5 October 2009 N.B. The following posting represents the personal views of the author and should not be construed as necessarily representative of any other individual or organisation. One of the “messages” in my earlier Open opportunties, open threats? posting (Auricle, 30 April 2009) was that […]
They’re coming to take your content away!
August 21st, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 21 August 2009 It’s hard to think of a more ironic example of the new world order that media companies would like to inflict on us than that recently demonstrated by Amazon’s recent auto-deletion of George Orwell’s 1984 “purchased” by owners of Amazon’s Kindle ebook platform. The story was all over the […]
Pop stars or supporting acts?
August 17th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 17 August 2009 Any views expressed in this Auricle posting are the author’s and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. The catalyst for this post was the article PhD students claim they are ‘cheap labour’ in yesterday’s Sunday Times (16 August 2009). As […]
NPfIT or not?
August 14th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, originally posted 10 July 2009, updated 14 August 2009 It may sound like the name of a trendy gym but NPfIT is the acronym for the somewhat beleaguered multibillion NHS National Programme for IT, the biggest programme of its type anywhere in the world. As such it makes a fine ongoing case […]
Oxford Internet Institute’s “The Internet in Britain 2009”
July 8th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 8 July 2009 A good starting point before reading the OII’s report The Internet in Britain 2009 (PDF, 2MB) would be Seb Schmoller’s commentary in his recent fornightly mailing. I commented on the government’s Digital Britain report referred to in the OII’s study in my recent Digital Britain report published – read […]
‘0oooo’ comes after ‘Eeee’?
June 25th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 24 June 2009 (updated 25 June 2009) N.B. The views expressed in this posting are the author’s own and should not be construed as representative of any other individual or organisation. Coincidence or convergence? Synthesis or accidential synergy? Putative zeitgeist? There has been a recent set of announcements and reports that I […]
Storm Clouds – addendum
June 23rd, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 23 June 2009 Here’s a slight addition to my orginal Storm Clouds online essay (Auricle, 9 September 2008) in which I reflected on the risks of the cloud computing paradigm. A recent Guardian edition had an interesting piece on the risks to our data when it’s stored in the ‘cloud’ (Freedom to […]
