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    BBC iPlayer - Don’t Cross the Streams

    The web’s abuzz with the news that the BBC’s iPlayer has made its first tentative steps toward sanity and put together a Flash video based streaming service that’s DRM unencumbered. Roo’s put together a good review of the service, and assorted others have chimed in with their comments.
    I was going to do a Roo-style “what […]


    Is it because I have breasts?

    Watching (and I use the term loosely, more of a “it was on in the background”) BBC Breakfast this morning, there was rather predictably some coverage of the first female Beefeater, and an interview with Moira Cameron.
    Questions included:

    have you ever been tempted to try on the crown jewels?
    have you ever been tempted to take the […]


    SXSW 2007 - ARG! The Attack of the Alternate Reality Games Transcript

    ARG! The Attack of the Alternate Reality Games

    Room 9C
    Saturday, March 10th 2007
    11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    Part game, story and treasure hunt, alternate reality games introduce people to a world of creative play, skywriting, online games, phone calls, radio broadcasts, secret websites, blogs, texts, coded adverts, emails, hidden audio files and helicopter chases. What you need […]


    Channel 4 - In The Wild / Living On Line

    Living On Line
    Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor, C4 Education
    Bronwyn Kunhardt, Director of Citzenship, Microsoft
    Rachel O’Connell, Chief Safety Officer, Bebo, exCyberspace Research Unit,
    Ewan McIntosh, blogger (edublogs) and social media specialist
    Pretty much liveblogging/transcribing this, so apologies for transcription errors, typos, etc.
    Matt Locke - joined C4 ten days ago: what we’re talking about today is the future of C4 […]


    BBC’s .co.uk Supernova coverage

    It’s cool that the BBC has highlighted the interesting supernova event (interesting in that it was a little brighter than expected), but I do like the tie-in at the end of the graphic.

    If you like supernovae, you might also like the Star Wars exhibit! That’s no moon…