From the Sunday Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/13/nternet13.xml
I’m pretty sure Linden Labs can find out where people are logging in from. But would they cooperate with US police let alone British police? So the watchdogs think it’s dangerous.
Helen Whitehead and Liz Cable from Reach Further will be attending the Women, Business & Blogging Conference at De Montfort University, Leicester, on 8th June 2007.
What is the 1% rule?http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html “It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.” Actually, I’m not so sure
with thanks mostly to Martin Mackain-Bremner via the recent JISC Web 2.0 Webinar Second Life official homepage: http://www.secondlife.com/ and http://secondlife.com/education/Media coverage: Second Life has received a LOT of media coverage in the past year or so. A press archive is maintained here: http://secondlife.com/news/ Some academic projects:Schome: http://www.schome.ac.uk/TPLD: http://tpld.net/main.php?page=102 Game-based learning
I was at a seminar yesterday by Christina Preston of MirandaNet, an interesting community of practice for teachers and associated professionals, that has been in existence since 1992 and online since around 1994 but not really effective online until recently. She reminded us how important it is to do learning
The BBC still have available various short self-study online courses. They include several in creative writing. Of course, a “real” course like Season of Inspiration, with tutors and fellow students to feedback on the exercises and writing, is much more useful than self-study, but until we announce the next Season
NMK Forum 07 will help you get under the skin of digital innovation and give you an unrivalled opportunity to hear leading industry figures talk about the future of the digital landscape. Delegates will also be able to participate in the debate about the digital industry’s future on stage, online,
Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian argues that The blogosphere risks putting off everyone but point-scoring males While “censorship” is never going to work, the idea of an online reputation is already important. I am very aware that anything I write – whether here in this blog, or on my work
This is an interesting approach to blogging by employees – the guidelines drawn up by the BBC on blogging by its employees
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