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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. If you want to stay up to date with my writing and bookbinding, sign up to my (roughly) monthly email newsletter. You’ll get everything I write, for free, and you’ll hear about Kickstarter projects before anyone else so that you can nab the juiciest rewards. Simply fill in the form below and you’ll be sent links and discount codes for the ebooks in mobi and epub format when you have confirmed your email. Matt is fa...
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No more NBC Nightly News podcasts. The bigger loser? NBC News. | MediaBizTech
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Robert Freeman's whole Media, Business and Technology thing. Sorted. No more NBC Nightly News podcasts. The bigger loser? Soon to be available nightly, zero days a week. The flexibility of being able to download audio and video programmes to my mobile devices is one of the things that’s revolutionised by media consumption in the last decade. I have a 64GB ipod which is pretty much dedicated to podcasts, and it’s usually complaining that I’m about to run out of space. Both the app and website options need...
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Authors, books and choices — Chocolate and Vodka
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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. Authors, books and choices. June 21, 2014. Doing the rounds this morning on Twitter is a rather forthright review by Christopher Priest. 8230;Starvie, who has been fashioned to resemble a sex-goddess. Starvie. Sex-goddess. This doesn’t bode well. There’s also a distinctly dodgy passage in the middle of the book, when the unappealing Fatty and the unemotional Kenstibec plan to send a compliant Starvie out as a sexua...
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Readers may love newspapers, but newspapers won’t love them back | Media, disrupted
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John L. Robinson on media, journalism and citizenship. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Readers may love newspapers, but newspapers won’t love them back. June 29, 2015. Pointed out a truth in Ken Doctor’s “10 numbers that define the news business today”. That I missed when I read it originally. We seldom see much reporting of buyouts and layoffs these days, as some publishers concluded that the industry’s problems were only being exacerbated by its reporting on its own staff changes.
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A problem of curves | Suw Charman-Anderson
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Social technology workshops, online courses, consulting and research. Chocolate & Vodka. A problem of curves. February 5, 2007. February 5, 2007. First published by Linux User & Developer. What does the phrase ‘problem solving’ evoke for you? Maths puzzles, or maybe an engineering experiment? Or do you think of that moment when the code runs and does what it’s supposed to? I recently read an article by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker. If anything, it is the anomalous criminals in the head of the power...
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Linux User | Suw Charman-Anderson
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Social technology workshops, online courses, consulting and research. Chocolate & Vodka. February 5, 2007. February 11, 2014. In the summer of 2006, I was invited to write a monthly column for Linux User and Developer magazine to publicise digital rights issues. I wrote for nearly a year, and had great fun doing it! Here are the results:. Issue 61: Whose Net is it anyway? Issue 62: The politicians and the database. Issue 63: Reviewing the Gowers Review. Issue 64: Digital rights abuse in your back garden.
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The politicians and the database | Suw Charman-Anderson
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Social technology workshops, online courses, consulting and research. Chocolate & Vodka. The politicians and the database. February 5, 2007. February 5, 2007. First published by Linux User & Developer. Here in the UK, database-based IT projects have blossomed, gathering between them an alarming amount of information, including:. Your personal details (National Identity Register). Your phone call and internet access data (communications traffic data, held under the EU’s new Data Retention Directive).
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Opposing copyright term extension | Suw Charman-Anderson
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Social technology workshops, online courses, consulting and research. Chocolate & Vodka. July 20, 2007. July 20, 2007. First published by Linux User & Developer. Is it really going to be different this time round? 1 It’s fair. Composers and writers get life plus 70, but performers only get 50, and Sir Cliff thinks it’s not “just.”. David Weinberger discusses the fallacy of fairness in an article Fair But Wrong. 2 Think of the pensioners. 3 After 50 years, musicians lose everything. Only a tiny minority o...
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Don’t you think Amazon looks tired? — Chocolate and Vodka
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Queen of the May. Online Courses and Consulting. Bubbling enthusiasm for $arbitrary topic. Don’t you think Amazon looks tired? August 11, 2014. Amazon recently returned fire at Hachette and Authors United. With a particularly ill-considered new website, Readers United. Authors United is a group of 900 authors, published by all sorts of companies not just Hachette, who support Hachette and are calling on Amazon to end their sanctions against Hachette authors. John Scalzi has a great post. Now, let’s pull ...
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