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links for 2008-03-24
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And the YouTubers have voted. Good to see Felicia Day’s The Guild, Tay Zonday’s “Chocolate Rain” and the Harry Potter Puppet Pals all taking honours!
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Jericho, revived but very well-oiled fan activity after first being cancelled at the end of season one, is now completely dead for CBS. Sadly, dedicated fans still need to bring in big numbers or shows just don’t make it.
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A new alternative in the 2008 election race courtesy of Battlestar Galactica! [Via Jean]
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Lawrence Lessig’s attempt to leverage online communities to reform the US Congress is under way. This attempt will be extremely instructive about the amount of power and influence that can come from a web-based movement.
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An interesting look at the demographics of iTunes Movie downloaders and some speculative answers as to why Zoolander is at the top of the charts. [Via Chuck]
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A visual history of pretty much ever gaming console system since 1970. Amazing how they’ve changed, but also how similar the design of a console system remains!
links for 2008-03-20
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A 15 yo Brisbane schoolgirl is struggling to get a profile removed from the US ‘Dating Psychos’ website, and has been told by the site managers she’ll have to sign up and pay for the website before they’ll do anything!
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“SCI FI Channel has given a green light for production to begin on Caprica, a two-hour backdoor pilot and Battlestar Galactica prequel from executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick.” (Cool!)
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Adobe is hammering the DRM (Digital Rights Management) tools into the new versions of the Adobe Media Player, making Flash a whole lot less friendly and flexible. 🙁
links for 2008-03-19
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A survey of [UK] Association of Teachers and Lecturers members says more than half know of pupils being “cyber bullied” and 16% have been victims themselves. Union leaders said schools should use the available sanctions, such as confiscating phones, more
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“Upon further investigation, it appears that “coming soon” means that Flickr Video will debut in beta next month.” (This is Yahoo’s one and only chance to become a proper competitor to YouTube, buidling on the strong Flickr name.)
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RIP Arthur C Clarke, your stories fired up the imaginations of so many!
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“Perth will be the first city in the southern hemisphere to make use of the company’s new mapping tool Google Transit. The feature will provide directions for travelling to and from locations using local public transport in Google Maps.”
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Good wrap-up of the protests in China, the response from the Chinese government (blocking YouTube, among other things) and the response from the wider internet.
links for 2008-03-13
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“In February 2007, there were 220,000 active user accounts. Today that stands at 2.6 million. That is a 1081.8 percentage increase. Worldwide, there are 67 million active Facebook users. The top countries ahead of Australia are the US, UK…”
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Wii Fit .. the Wii version of the gym.
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“According to a recent British survey on how your internet reputation – or NetRep – affects career prospects, one in five employers have searched for personal information online about a prospective employee …”
links for 2008-03-01
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“Girls are more confident than boys about using a computer, a survey of more than 1,000 children suggests. The research by the Tesco Computers for Schools programme found girls were more likely than boys to …”
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Notes on the thorny issue of whether making recordings of lectures available as podcasts reduces student attendance rates at lectures.
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