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Links for 2009-07-04 [del.icio.us]

  • MiLK - The Mobile Learning Kit
    Teachers can now design everyday learning activities using mobile phones and the internet. For students this makes events such as excursions, group discussions, and questionnaires all the more engaging. Using MiLK students can create their own learning profiles, discuss topics with other students and teachers, share ideas, photos, comments, and most importantly, design their own learning events.
  • Mobilise Your Imagination - CipherCities
    Build, Play and Share Games Anytime Anywhere
  • Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker
    There are four strands of argument here: a technological claim (digital infrastructure is effectively Free), a psychological claim (consumers love Free), a procedural claim (Free means never having to make a judgment), and a commercial claim (the market created by the technological Free and the psychological Free can make you a lot of money). The only problem is that in the middle of laying out what he sees as the new business model of the digital age Anderson is forced to admit that one of his main case studies, YouTube, “has so far failed to make any money for Google.”

Blog break

I'll be offline for the next couple of weeks recharging the inbuilt, solid-state batteries. In the meantime, I've closed comments on posts over a month old to limit those who choose to pummel me with cold meat. See you soon,...

Links for 2009-07-03 [del.icio.us]

  • TrustedPlaces one step closer to profitability thanks to LocalPeople
    The sites focus on communities of between 10,000 and 50,000 users, and blend Northcliffe’s local news and traditional media assets like classifieds and job ads with TrustedPlaces’ local business directories and social media elements, to create an ad-funded community publishing platform.

Links for 2009-07-02 [del.icio.us]

  • Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds | Online Journalism Blog
    The latest subscriber figures (see table below, and first published in my blog’s newspapers category) show that, apart from a couple of exceptions, it’s time for newspapers to turn off their RSS feeds - and hand over the server space, technical support and webpage real estate to an alternative, such as their Twitter accounts.
  • New forms of journalism, Part 1: Let me be part of it - 38minutes
    The challenges of audience and conversation are never purely about technology, RSS or Twitter. They're nearly always about the connections your most passionate users or community members have both in the real world and online. My question for newspapers would be whether they really know who their online and realworld connectors and contributors are. If they don't, then they cannot hope to provide a space for them to find each other, to collaborate, communicate and comment on their sites and on the distributed networks of Twitter, Facebook et al.
  • Online content + printing press = customised newspapers FTW
    Following the success of AudioBoo, 4iP has unveiled another investment with the potential to completely change the face of mainstream media - though this time, it’s all about print. Newspaper Club is a tool to help people make their own newspapers using online content. The site’s in private beta, with a public launch planned for late summer.

Links for 2009-07-01 [del.icio.us]

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Stewart

URConnected 1.1

Last night in Glasgow we had our first gathering of people who are keen to get their churches online. It was great to meet with you all and I hope you will take the plunge and get into blog based websites.

We talked a lot about WordPress as a blogging platform. The URC's new iChurch sites are based on WordPress.

Posted by Stewart on October 21, 2008 at 7:33pm

Stewart

Resourcing Churches

I spent some time with the ministers from the URC in Scotland today and one of the things we talked about was the Resourcing Churches website. It is a site that relies very much on user content allowing you to upload and download resources, add events to the calendar and your name and church to the directory. As I said, it is user driven so join up and start posting your ideas and events!

Posted by Stewart on November 27, 2007 at 9:46pm — 1 Comment

Stewart

Skype

One of the toys we didn't talk about on Saturday was Skype. It's basically a free video phone with text chat. You can call other people online and talk for free, conference call and and even forward it to your landline or mobile. Nice!

Posted by Stewart on November 26, 2007 at 10:42am

Stewart

a good start

I really enjoyed today. It seemed like a good start, a first step into the big wide world of being online in a planned and organised way... allowing for some cool tag discoveries of course. I'm posting this while listening to LastFM (thanks for that pointer).


Thanks to everyone for comming, to Sue and Mark from Saughtonhall URC for hosting us and to Ewan for leading us through a fascinating journey. I hope we will all be able to contribute to t

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Posted by Stewart on November 24, 2007 at 8:04pm

Ewan McIntosh

Stewart's notes from the event

Stewart's posted some great notes over on the wiki, which explain the first part of this morning.

Posted by Ewan McIntosh on November 24, 2007 at 3:56pm

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