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- #goodpitch do love a well researched event. With bonus pingpong. 1 hr ago
- Statement on The future of NHS National Programme for IT http://ow.ly/2BF3B (via @Caledebois) 1 day ago
- It's #opentech on Saturday http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2010/ 1 day ago
- Can you help make http://meetthecommunities.helpfultechnology.com/ happen? Venue needed, October (via @lesteph) 1 day ago
- Tim Biscoe: A case for basic research (pdf) http://bit.ly/cbNAdw 1 day ago
- Vince Cable - Science, Research and Innovation Speech http://bit.ly/9VGkuH 1 day ago
- Nature http://bit.ly/d9xIgu and Austin Elliott http://bit.ly/bNyZ0G on Vince Cable and scientific research.(via @Maxine_Clarke) 1 day ago
- BioMed Central drafts position statement on open data http://bit.ly/cTLgAK Please comment. (via @mfenner) 1 day ago
- Plos: B Vitamins Slow the Rate of Accelerated Brain Atrophy in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Trial http://bit.ly/dsyNKZ 1 day ago
- How can health data be used to solve problems and make decisions? http://ow.ly/2AXzr Join a Live Q & A on 8th Oct #opendata (via @NHSlocal) 2 days ago
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Argentine philosophy professor Horacio Potel faces criminal charges and a possible jail sentence for posting translations of Jaques Derrida’s work to his website for his students. Via Boing Boing http://bit.ly/u38aD and http://bit.ly/ZLPTg Morehttp://bit.ly/2OL2D New Zealand scraps Controversial ’3 Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Law which would have led to alleged copyright infringers being disconnected from the internethttp://tinyurl.com/d86ra6 A major new report published by the Rowntree Trust on the database state via Open [...]
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Newspapers: Seattle Post-Intelligencer ends printing. Staff cuts, continues as web-only publication http://bit.ly/L1OnJ iPod headphones aren´t DRMed, just controlled by a proprietary chip that you have to license http://bit.ly/YdnM4 Guardian Tech OFCOM sets out challenge of broadband Britain http://bit.ly/SsqGL More James Boyle and ‘How extending copyright term in sound recordings actually works’ with link to PDF [...]
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Clay Shirky on newspapers & journalism
“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperatives to strengthen journalism and to strengthen newspapers have been so tightly wound as to be indistinguishable. That’s been a fine accident to have, but when that accident stops, as it is stopping before our eyes, we’re going to need lots of [...]
Facebook, cancer, Daily Mail
How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer The Daily Mail This is so bad I thought it was a parody, but I guess the Daily Mail’s science and medicine coverage is beyond parody. For example: “* Yes, loneliness is bad for your health – but only YOU can cure yourself * Drinking just [...]
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Editors discuss the future of newspapers
Charlie Rose programme: discussion on future of newspapers Time cover story writer Walter Isaacson, the Daily News’ Mort Zuckerman and the WSJ’s Robert Thomson discuss the future of newspapers on the Charlie Rose programme. Watch video via link from Businessinsider.com Direct link to full programme 55 minutes. Newspaper piece starts at 28 minutes. Nicholas Carlson [...]
Nic Carr on newspapers
Nic Carr talking a lot of sense about the coming concentration of power in the hands of a few remaining players in the news industry. ‘Supply side adjustment’ means fewer jobs and fewer titles. Then ad revenue can recover and subscriptions become possible. News doesn’t want to be free. News wants to be paid for. [...]
Amazon: Kindle 2 on Feb 9
Version 2 of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader will be announced on February 9th. New York Times has the story.
Lecture flyer
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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