I will be giving a seminar at the Education Show in Birmingham on Saturday 1st March 2008. It’s about our 10-year-old project for young writers and their parents, teachers and librarians: Kids on the Net If you’re a teacher, educator or exhibitor, and you’re coming to the show why not
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
A tag cloud is a visual way of representing the most frequent (important) keywords in a web page. Here’s a tag cloud for the latest posts on the Reach Further Blog. admin awards bbc being believe blog blue business comment community computer course date encouraging entrepreneurship events facebook feel filed
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,
You may like to know about www.venturenavigator.co.uk. It’s a free software based business evaluation engine. It’s the first thing I’ve found (apart from going through a Dragon’s Den process!) that helps you see if an idea could be turned into a sustainable business. It can also be used by an
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
The BBC’s dot life blog reports on the 45 most influential people in technology. Tim Berners Lee is at the top of the list, which probably reflects the British bias of the judges and the context of the vote (on the Web!). I find it very sad that there are
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