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Pupils get revision help by text
Pupils at a school in Buckinghamshire have been getting extra help with GCSE revision by texting their teachers.
from : mollywebb
28th June 2006
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Back to spam (friday rant)
"Thank you for your interest in online keno" begins one. "Our staff places great emphasis on providing stunning customer service and is dedicated to gambling online" gushes another. The downside of making commenting easier is that we're getting more spam. C'mon, has anyone EVER been interested in online keno????? I REST MY CASE.It's amusing after I take a few deep breaths and count down from 100. I allow myself to admire the use of 'stunning' in a sentence with 'gambling' while getting...
from : mollywebb
31st March 2006
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Greenhouse joins the bloggerati
It's official. The Demos Greenhouse has joined the bloggerati. We're among the world's top blogs according to today's Independent. We're in excellent company, including such titans of the blogosphere as Boing Boing, the Huffington Post, and Instapundit.
from : samhintonsmith
20th March 2006
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Demos on del.icio.us
It's interesting to see how people are tagging the Demos website on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us. Have a look at the popular tags on the right.
from : paulmiller
17th March 2006
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Second-guessing google?
How much do we trust google? The headlines about its latest run-in with Chinese censorship call into question the social conscience of those in the techie driving seat. As John Lanchester in the Guardian notes, "google's founders know what they are doing technologically. Socially, though, they can't possibly know, and I don't think anyone else can either." This reminds me of the 'dark side' of this week's business week article "Math will rock your world". Even as we use maths to 'model...
from : mollywebb
26th January 2006
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wising up to wisdom of the crowds
Web 2.0 is a catchy way of talking about a set of principles with which most popular online tools are now aligned: user-driven, emergent, participatory (and the list goes on). Usually, instead of clarifying what this means, the examples people use to describe web 2.0 lead deeper into lingo: wikis, tag clouds, folksonomies, mashups, AMV (anime music videos) to name just a few. As Duncan noted last week, in the case of wikipedia, the legitimacy of these types of tools can be called into question...
from : mollywebb
23rd January 2006
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Wiki-d
Contintuing the theme of the take-up new ideas/technology, I meant to write a post the other day about my brother getting panned by his tutor at university for referencing wikipedia in one of his essays. He was told that anyone can write on it and it's insufficuently regulated, so you never know whether it's accurate or not (despite recent evidence to the suggesting the opposite). I wonder if/when it will become acceptable to use it in academic circles..?
from : duncanoleary
20th January 2006
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Change your name for a (twenty) fiver
Just spotted in the end section of this week's Pick Me Up: you can change your name by deed poll on the internet for ?24.99. Maybe (inspired by former Demos research directors) we should all have a go?
from : paulmiller
9th December 2005
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Noisy neighbourhoods
There was a veritable celebration of new media excellence in public life at last night's New Statesman Awards. TheyWorkForYou were rightly rewarded for their contribution to civic society. My personal favourite of the night was Noise Mapping, which provides interactive maps with noise levels (in decibels). So far, the site provides a postcode search facility in London, so you can find out how noisy your 'manor' is (especially useful if you're moving house).
from : samhintonsmith
6th July 2005
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You read it here first
Bit slow on the uptake here, but The Times has an election blog...featuring (amongst others) none other than former Demos guest blogger David Charter. Worth a read. In the spirit of election-period-induced-fairness, the Guardian also has a designated election blog that you can visit here.
from : duncanoleary
6th April 2005
