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    links for 2009-09-30

    TiVo Inc. Investor Relations - Press release
    "In fact, the most beloved programs are often subject to the highest degree of timeshifting and commercial avoidance." - um. TV model broken?
    (tags: advertising vod tivo broadcasting funding pressrelease research)


    links for 2009-09-25

    Maps for Girls – bad feelings, bad maps
    making my spidey sense tingle
    (tags: maps psychogeography emotions cartography)


    links for 2009-09-24

    …on pampers, programming & pitching manure: Four Pointers on the Future of Games
    Kim Pallister on Smokescreen: "It will challenge both what you think is possible in an 'educational' game, and in the quality of production possible in a publicly-commissioned game… …It's polished, rich, and deep. "
    (tags: smokescreen channel4 sixtostart review)

    Smokescreen Walkthrough Guide, Review, Discussion, Hints [...]


    links for 2009-09-18

    Luke Johnson: Next Channel 4 chief must know digital world
    "Next Channel 4 chief must know digital world" - so Peter Fincham or Kevin Lygo, then?


    links for 2009-09-15

    just in teractive: GameLayers from PMOG to Dictator Wars
    Justin on the evolution from PMOG to Dictator Wars
    (tags: justinhall gamelayers pmog dictatorwars)

    Media: Fox 'Twee-Peat' Found Bulky, but Points to the Future - Advertising Age - MediaWorks
    MOAR EXPERIMENTS!
    (tags: twitter tv repeat social viewingfigures fox)


    links for 2009-09-09

    The Laboratorium: Smokescreen
    "An amazing edugame about privacy and security online, presented in the form of overlapping IM windows social network site pages. I can’t begin to list the things it does right. It’s one of the best media literacy projects I’ve ever seen."
    (tags: sixtostart smokescreen channel4 education medialiteracy)

    Contagious News Article - Smokescreen
    "While teens, and the [...]


    links for 2009-09-05

    The Ridiculant | Metro - Smokescreen
    Online privacy is not a game. No, wait - turns out it is.
    We're constantly being warned about the need to protect our privacy online, and yet still many of us carry on merrily hooting facts about our lives to complete strangers on the internet, and signing away our personal details [...]


    links for 2009-09-04

    Young people want advice about online privacy « Ofcom
    This is quite stupendously timed
    (tags: smokescreen ofcom privacy online)

    EtherPad Blog: Saving is Obsolete
    via blech, see http://danhon.com/articles/archive/000403.shtml
    (tags: saving spool)