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August 2008

August 01, 2008

Athens, hail and farewell

August 01, 2008

Thanks to Andy Powell for his euogy to Athens. Let me pitch in and help him publicise a blog post that is well put. These services are conceived, designed, developed and serviced by people. Perhaps one measure of success is near invisible ...

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August 03, 2008

Climate camp: learning technology?

August 03, 2008

You have to be impressed at the organisation of what amounts to a seven-day extended conference by the Climate camp in a field in Kent. The programme (download pdf) has over 200 sessions in 15 parallel streams running from about 0900 - 2100. From an educational perspective this is somewhere in the formal/informal learning axis. But I am not ...

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August 04, 2008

ALT-C booking deadline 15 August

August 04, 2008

ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide, 9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UKBookings close Friday, 15th August 2008 – book soon to confirm your place!This conference will explore and extend the debate over the digital divide, providing an opportunity to develop both thinking and practice. The premise to be explored in the conference is that the digital divide is multidimensional, rather ...

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August 06, 2008

ARGs - and the rest - covered in Guardian Technology

August 06, 2008

OK, I'll catch up one day. If you missed the Guardian's Technology section on 24 July 2008, it might have been a review - from a slightly different perspective - of what U&I and Emerge are doing. The issue covered: Twitter search (the acquisition of Summize), ARGs, Skype, public data re-use policy, location-based services. And, there was a link ...

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