Author Archives: take21

Amazon: Kindle 2 on Feb 9

By take21 | Published: January 30, 2009

Version 2 of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader will be announced on February 9th. New York Times has the story.

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Google share of search still growing

By take21 | Published: January 30, 2009

“Of the 137 billion estimated total searches performed in the U.S. last year, 85 billion were done on Google. What’s even more impressive is that nearly 90 percent of all the growth in search volume was also captured by Google. Most of that growth came from increasing the number of searches per person, rather than […]

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After newspapers, the future for journalism

By take21 | Published: January 29, 2009

A video clip of the announcement to staff at the Seattle Post Intelligencer of the papers’ sale and closure of the print edition. It shows the human dimension to many of the issues covered in the lecture. Let’s salute the professionalism of  journalists who report the news, even if  it is the announcement of their […]

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New blog, old blog

By take21 | Published: January 28, 2009

New URL for this blog. Same purpose: teaching, lecture notes and posts on technology, culture, law and business. What’s new? The name is shorter. Still to do: tidy up the archive of course material. Sidebar not ideal for navigation. Sometimes fast is good enough: export content from old blog, import to new blog. Thanks WordPress! […]

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Lecture flyer

By take21 | Published: January 28, 2009

A shameless self-publicist writes … The flyer for my Coventry Conversations lecture  After newspapers, what future for journalism? is out and available for download. The lecture is on Thursday 29th January and open to all. Pete Hnatushka has done a fine job of interpreting the brief for the graphic. The PDF is a 236Kb download.a_mackenzie_flyer

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Hope

By take21 | Published: January 20, 2009

On Tuesday 20th January President Obama takes office. Millions of people in America and around the world entrust their hopes to the new President. You could watch the inauguration on TV. In the UK, live on BBC 1 at 4.00pm. Also on Sky. You could also watch live on the internet via Hulu, where the […]

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Coventry Conversations 2009

By take21 | Published: January 8, 2009

  The excellent Coventry Conversations series of talks by media insiders continues. The winter season features Jon Blair, Nick Davies, John Oucho, David Moorcroft, Andrew Mackenzie, Peter Ogden, Jon Snow, Peter Barron, Richard Keeble, Bob Satchwell, Roger Cook, Martin Lewis and Andrew Vallance. Practitioners and academics in an hour of talk about contemporary issues in […]

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Serious games

By take21 | Published: December 13, 2008

Victor Keegan has a piece on why serious games matter in Technology Guardian. What are serious games? Games which have the formal intention of training and learning, rather than learning being a side effect of gameplay. Games development is important for the UK economy and currently facing serious competition from Canada’s (successful) strategy of subsidising […]

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Chrome: who and why

By take21 | Published: October 2, 2008

Wired has a piece by Steven Levy on the team behind Google’s Chrome browser. Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web. (Their Capital Letters, Not Mine.) Fascinating glimpse into the development process and an easy introduction to the technologies used in Chrome. Jack Schofield in the Guardian thinks the secrecy […]

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Newsflash: Webcaster Settlement Act

By take21 | Published: October 1, 2008

Save Net Radio reports today “Legislation authorizing SoundExchange to negotiate royalty agreements with webcasters on behalf of copyright owners and performers before the end of the year has been approved by the U.S. Senate.  The Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 (H.R. 7084), passed unanimously in the House of Representatives earlier this week, was approved by […]

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