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I was reading through an AOP presentation (Digital Landscape Report vol. 54) this week when I came across one slide which quite startled me. It was talking about the growth of mobile advertising at Facebook and Twitter. The fact that stood out for me was…
Continue reading...I've just read a long, passionate post on Marc Scott's Coding2Learn blog lamenting the fact that kids can't use computers. The hypothesis, simply put, is that far from being "digital natives" most kids simply don't know their way round a computer or, indeed, a smart phone. This is…
Continue reading...In February I bought myself a Nexus 7, the 7-inch tablet made for Google by Asus. I bought it from Currys as, since the demise of Comet in November last year, this is just about the only electrical chain around. My early experiences were good;…
Continue reading...The number of articles which are now talking about the problem of work are increasing. Techcrunch cites many of them in a recent article pointing out the productivity conundrum in the US; the economy is slowly bouncing back, but the jobs just aren't coming back with…
Continue reading...Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was quoted on the BBC today saying that traditional bricks and mortar universities would lose out if they didn't find a convincing way to respond to the new wave of online courses (sometimes called MOOCs - massive online open courses). "The…
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