Author Archives: take21

Reading, libraries, eBooks

By take21 | Published: March 24, 2010

Guardian: the battle of Britain’s libraries. New Birmingham library features Like public parks, libraries are particularly valuable in capitalist cityscapes, where you are incessantly encouraged to keep moving, keep spending – and don’t even think about doing anything economically unproductive. (Figures released by the Valuation Office Agency last month showed that since 1997 there has […]

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Privacy, surveillance

By take21 | Published: March 21, 2010

“Schools ‘break law’ to spy on pupils”Pupils are monitored by CCTV cameras as frequently as inmates in prisons and passengers at airports, research showsGuardian Businesses get ability to track employee posts on Facebook, Twitter:Software monitors all public social networking activity in case employees reveal confidential information or make statements that could be damaging to the […]

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Research

By take21 | Published: March 21, 2010

Oxford Internet Institute: developing a methodology for costing the impact of digital exclusion. Recent work by OII has shown that technological forms of exclusion are a reality for significant segments of the population, that different groups experience different types of exclusion, and that for some people they reinforce and deepen existing disadvantages, such as social […]

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Archive

By take21 | Published: March 21, 2010

Digital Treasure Archive LabCrossover Labs March BBC web: a history of the world in 100 objects

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Music

By take21 | Published: March 21, 2010

US National Public Radio transcript & mp3 of Girltalk/Shocklee/JB on fair use & digital sampling Twenty years ago a series of lawsuits criminalized the hip-hop sampling of artists like Hank Shocklee and Public Enemy. And yet, two decades later, artists like Girl Talk have found success breaking those same sampling laws. OTM producer Jamie York […]

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Strategic Skills Assessment for the Creative Industries 2010

By take21 | Published: March 18, 2010

Skillset has conducted a comprehensive UK-wide analysis of demand for skills in the Creative Industries and also for each UK nation. Growth in demand for Creative skills and employment is predicted The industry is at risk of losing talent and skills Skills for multiplatform and to take advantage of opportunities presented by digital media are […]

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Government

By take21 | Published: March 18, 2010

Local by Social – social media as an opportunity for local governmentIDeA and NESTA discussion paper Local by Social: How local authorities can use social media to achieve more with less by Andy Gibson. Expectations on councils to engage, work openly, be accountable and move more quickly on issues are growing. Meanwhile, councils are facing […]

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Data visualisation

By take21 | Published: March 18, 2010

Google’s Public Data Explorer The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don’t have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your […]

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Twitter, microblogging

By take21 | Published: March 18, 2010

Check out Status.net, now in public beta. Microblogging for your domain http://status.net from the identi.ca/laconica people

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Some OpenStreetMap links

By take21 | Published: March 11, 2010

OpenStreetMap – The Best MapIntroduction to OSM from Steve Coast, originator of the projecthttp://opengeodata.org/openstreetmap-the-best-map Techcrunch Third party developers eat this stuff up. There are few alternatives – Google, Microsoft and Yahoo will allow developers to embed maps into applications but there’s no deep dive into the data. CloudMade has allowed entire new classes of applications […]

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