That’s Edutainment

The Guardian reports today that the BBC’s Jam programme, previously known as the Digital Curriculum, has been suspended thanks to the European Commission. This was a project that has already spent a £150mn budget, all of it licence payers’ money.

As you know, I worked previously in educational publishing. I’ve spoken with a

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Announcing NMK Forum 07

OK, I’ll try not to let this site become too much like a boring diary of what I do at work and get back to the normal web services and social media output.

But not yet.

Today, the website for NMK Forum 07 finally went live. It’s taken me a while, mainly

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Goodness in the Future

I’m in charge of the Beers and Innovation events at NMK. It’s a stream that was first started by my predecessor, the excellent Deirdre Molloy, in response to a post from Tom Coates about why we don’t seem to be particularly innovative in the UK. Oh yes, we are!

Anyway. Our plan

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Tumbling All the Way Home

Move over Twitter. All the smart kids are now Tumbling. What is a Tumble Blog? It’s like an internet scrap book. Quotes, RSS, pictures and multimedia just stuck together in one place. When I first started this blog, that was actually exactly what I was looking for. I just wanted a place

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Multi-Calendar Misery?

I work at an office. I also work from home. I also work when I’m out and about (sometimes). Oh yes, sometimes I work on a PC, sometimes a Mac. So what do I do about my calendar? Well, Google Calendar is a pretty good solution in many respects. I can get to

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Clever, writer-type wanted

Anney from Prospect rang me up to ask if I knew anyone who might fit the following role – which I assume is UK-based. I said no, but that I’d ask around:

“My client is a start up social enterprise that uses Web 2.0 and online social networking for a “pro-social” purpose. Through search

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Craving Attention?

The likelihood is that – in this day and age – your attention is stretched fairly thin. The law of information states that, “the rapid growth of information causes scarcity of attention”. Few would deny that there’s been an explosive growth of information over the last few years. It’s estimated that the average consumer

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Irresponsible Post

I’ve talked a little bit about Twitter recently, the social software that seeks the answer to that most fascinating of questions, ‘What are you doing now?’

But what if you’re too busy to Twitter? Are you anxious about shrinkage in your online presence? Well, help is at hand with the arrival of Continue reading Irresponsible Post

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