Tag Archives: OFCOM

October #3

By take21 | Published: October 30, 2009

Digital BritainOfcom launches Consortium for Digital Participation70% oppose internet ban for filesharers, poll shows. GuardianIllegal downloads 150x more profitable than legal sales Torrent FreakMore than 10 million adults in the UK have never used the Internet. 4 million of them are the most socially disadvantaged. Race Online 2012 EducationTeach us a Lesson! competition for informal […]

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August #2

By take21 | Published: August 16, 2009

Downloading Annual University of Hertfordshire survey on music consumption. Two views: Trade body UK Music, who fund the survey “Music consumption in 14-24 year olds is complex, latest survey reveals” UK Music Torrentfreak “14-24 year olds pirate 8,000 music tracks each” Torrentfreak   Digital Britain Programme for the delivery of actions in the DB White […]

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July #4

By take21 | Published: August 1, 2009

Free Malcolm Gladwell eviscerates Chris Anderson’s Free. Saving you time as well as money bit.ly   OFCOM Consultation to reform the rules around commercial radio & local content tr.im Consultation on liberalising the rules concerning ownership of local media tr.im   Newsgator, Google and RSS Newsgator: option of paid-for ad-free desktop readers. Synch via Google. […]

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Links to 13th June

By take21 | Published: June 13, 2009

    The week in links Education resources, open access, copyright, bad research and lobbying, life without newspapers- insight from the1940s, Twitter hype vs the numbers, browser innovation, Digital Britain, life without broadband, French anti-filesharing law overturne The week in links Education resources, open access, copyright, bad research and lobbying, life without newspapers- insight from […]

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Links to 11th May

By take21 | Published: May 11, 2009

Open Access, the Commons Berkman Center lecture David Bollier, author of Viral Spiral: How Shall the Commons Be Governed? Challenges Facing the Digital Commons Sector http://bit.ly/OTzjd Via Open Culture: Download 200+ free and top-notch university courses to your mp3 player or computer. http://bit.ly/4XS2T Technology Check out hyperwords Firefox extension. Like reliving your first hyperlink ‘this goes somewhere’ http://www.hyperwords.net/ intriguing […]

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Selection

By take21 | Published: March 18, 2009

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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Fast broadband

By take21 | Published: March 2, 2009

Think broadband on expected OFCOM announcement   http://bit.ly/13W49X Up to 100 Megabits fibre optic BT will have to make its new fibre-optic network, which it intends to build over the next three years, available to its rivals on a wholesale basis, but the regulator’s proposals will ensure that it can make money out of it. Observer […]

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