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Out with the old

2008-09-22T22:50:28Z

Just scanning through my laptop and I find a folder called projects with lots of notes, proposals and ideas. So since they have been there for ages and I have not done anything with them and their time has probably past I am going to spring clean,...

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standard operating procedure

2008-08-12T11:31:06Z

I recently finished reading the book 'Standard Operating Procedure' by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris. It is based on the interviews that were made for the Errol Morris film of the same name. It is about, if you do not already know, what ha...

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Books and community

2008-02-20T11:50:50Z

Gavin Bell has posted the slides from his recent talk at TOC08. Some good stuff here on nurturing the online community around content that can equally apply to broadcasters such as the BBC as much as publishing houses. (Gaving used to work at the ...

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A BBC Question Of Air

2008-02-12T10:28:35Z

I am obviously very interested in the perception of the BBC and its content, what it does, what it could do and what it should do (as well as all the negatives to those questions). So out of curiosity, I have a few questions below, if you would no...

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Games and Journalism

2008-02-04T16:59:50Z

Just so that I don't loose it, Philip Trippenbach hads been blogging about games and Journalism for a while now. Lots of interesting posts here.

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A (very) informal (unofficial) BBC experiment

2008-01-26T09:12:49Z

I am the Technical Project Manager for the Languages site on bbc.co.uk. This is a great resource if you are interested in languages and especially if you want to start learning a new one. If you want to learn French, German, Spanish or Italian we ...

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Warhammer 25 years

2008-01-25T17:31:34Z

Apparently WarHammer, the tabletop fantasy battles game is 25 years old this year. The game is published by Games Workshop which has over those years changed itself quite considerably. As a kid my friend and I would often get the bus from Kingsto...

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Further notes on the Social Bar

2008-01-16T11:10:29Z

Continuing from the post on the Social Bar, I thought I would put down some details on where it comes from. Initially I was given some time to do a bit of R&D, as a part of one of the technical teams here. I was interested in another way of deali...

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Raising The Social Bar

2008-01-15T11:41:57Z

I gave a presentation on this project at the recent BarCampLondon3. More thoughts and further thinking is below. What is it? The Social Bar is the name for a small R&D project that I have been doing at the office. The area of research is in com...

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lean forwards

2007-12-07T12:33:43Z

That is what interactive television was supposed to be about. If you just watch then you lean back, let the content wash over you when the calls to action appear though, you can lean forward, engage with the content. It has not really been real...

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