The structure of documents and the difficulty of representing them in computing. How can electronic documents improve on paper, rather than how simply to imitate it. The History of computing – three dumb downs and a betrayal, Fire in the Valley, Freiburger especially the last chapter (Citizen Nelson) The betrayal of Personal Computing – should…
At the Science Museum’s Danacentre (nice space)for the Future Wireless event by Cybersalon & OpenSpectrumUK listening to Alexei Blinov and James Stevens talking about Hive Networks putting together a DIY infrastructure – an open backbone (sounds painful) According to the Hive Networks wiki “Hive Networks” is a cross-disciplinary research and development project into embedded devices…
I’m at the Channel 4 HQ in Horseferry Road at a cafe style session on education policy. About 50 interesting and vociferous people have gathered to talk about Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, well at least that’s what Channel 4 wants them to talk about – we’ll see how that actually works out. We’re just going…
Legal issues facing podcasters. podcastpaul.com & podlawyer.com Freedom of speech There’s a lot to the legal side of podcasting than can I use the Blind Date theme tune. Legislation hasn’t caught up with what’s happening. Is speech really free? You can say what you like until you tread on someone’s toes. We have a lot…
A “live” version of the Richard Vobes show. weird, not really sure what’s going on or what the point is – except to show perhaps how doing a podcast looks. Right now Jimmy is pouring beer for someone to try. Like I say, weird. tags: podcastcon uk & podcasting
Podcasts for Educational use 1 teacher and two university lecturers in the room. Mmmmmm.. Technologies challenge traditional ways of transmitting knowledge. Last October, he’d just got into podcasting. A friend had a big contract with a south london borough for remedial education. The borough decided they had too many unemployed uneducated kids. So they got…
Podsafe Music Network In the break, promo from Roger Smalls. Mark does the tartanpodcast – what do you hang on a wall? Wallpaper & a picture – art (and tony blair) no doubt we’ll hear in a minute what that was all about. 4th out of 1800 music podcasts on podcastalley.com. Listen to music podcasts…
Podcasting technologies Can’t watch tv, can’t listen to radio x-NPR, no magazines. Doesn’t know what to do in the evenings. Got on internet, found blogs, found audio in blogs, video in blogs. Found a knitting blog and thought if there’s knitting there must be loads of cool stuff. Created 49media (what’s on the web tonight,…
Podcasting for Business Neville has taken Hugh’s “was it good for you” cartoon and replaced “read my blog” with “listen to my podcast” Most people in the room are podcasters – just a few have one’s that are business podcasts. What is a podcast? Digital audio file, typically MP3, radio show format, time-shifted, delivered by…
I’m at the Berners Hotel in London’s West End. It’s full of podcasters, podcaster wannabes and podcasting newbies. Chris Kimber Head of Interactive Media from BBC is just talking about the BBCs podcasting efforts. BBC doing well in charts like iTunes. Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time is tops among beebs podcasts. Why it’s important- media…