The BBC reports today on the closure of two digital radio stations, The Jazz and Planet Rock from GCap Media. They state that “DAB Digital radio is being portrayed in some quarters as the 21st century’s version of Betamax, the video format that lost out to VHS in the 1970s.”
ALT-c 2008 conference: 9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UK First call for papers and abstracts The online submission system for ALT-C 2008 is now open: http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/papers.html Please read the submission guidelines for Research Papers and for Abstracts – http://www.alt.ac.uk/guidelines_papers.html – and download the Research Paper Template if you wish to submit
The recent rumpus about the British Council in Russia reminds me what a good job they do promoting British writing and arts (and culture) around the world. The British Council Arts and Literature services include some very comprehensive websites and web-based resources: including events: Animating Literature: http://literature.britishcouncil.org/A portal to news,
I have the immense privilege of updating the website of the poet Alison Brackenbury. I love her poems – and a new one appears on her website every two months. She’s let me know that “6.25”, a poem from her forthcoming book “Singing in the Dark”, will appear in The
Janet Clarey has blogged this month about Women in the edublogosphere 2007She says “When I first started blogging early in ‘07 I felt there weren’t that many female bloggers.”Which is so sad – I’ve been blogging since 2003, and I know a lot of women, especially in the new media
Here’s a beautiful web project: 80 Million Tiny Images, a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning, by Antonio Torralba, Rob Fergus and William T. Freeman at MIT. It’s not just pretty, either: the project aims to use this massive dataset to train a
There’s an interesting viewpoint from Andy Powell at Eduserv on the recent breakdown of negotiations between JISC and Eduserv about funding of the Athens-Shibboleth Gateways.I must admit that I hadn’t realised that the change from Athens to Shibboleth was so imminent.Athens has been the authentication method for access to academic
One is allowed to blow one’s own trumpet occasionally, yes? Here is some of the feedback from my last writing course… “Though I am a published writer (I have an anthology of Short Stories in my name) I must say I have benefitted from the Season Of Inspiration course in
An H2O Playlist is a shared list of readings and other content about a topic of intellectual interest. It’s a way to group and exchange useful links to information – online and offline.Developed at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, it claims to represent a
I repeated on the BBC website my blog post yesterday about the summer-born starting school. They published it at the top of the comment list. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7178969.stm