Search Engine Optimisation

Lee Siegel, commentator

Gina Bianchini, Co-founder, ning

Tim Berners-Lee

Internet Week Europe

Internet Week is currently being held in London - check out the details of a multitude of events in the City.

3D TV

Charlie Brooker's assessment of 3DTV... It ain't positive!

e-books

Latest figures show that the e-reader of choice is not in fact the Kindle, but the laptop. Wired magazine discusses...

The Times subscription charges not paying off

News International has released figures on The Times levels of subscription showing a steep decline in web activity following their decision to charge for content.

Horizon Report Museums Edition 2010

The Museums Horizon Report outlining current and potential uses of technology in the museum has been published. It includes sections on social media and augmented reality.

Status Project by Heath Bunting

Heath Bunting's Status Project 'The Map of Normality' is currently at the Cornerhouse in Manchester. The project (according to the blurb) 'combine[s] three obsessions, Buddhism, computer science and network hacking' Map of Normality 'survey[s] the system that constructs identity in Britain today.

Social Search?

Bing and facebook are uniting to work on a 'social Search' function that will fend off competition from 'Google Me' when it is launched.

The end of Screen Burn

Charlie Brooker has decided to call time on his Screen Burn column for the Guardian. Here he reflects on 10 years of writing reviews, and the changes that have rocked TV watching over the past few years.

Farmville stifling the games market?

There is increasing concern (unsurprisingly perhaps) in the games industry that facebook games such as farmville adopt a cynical market approach and stifle creativity. Zynga is the primary recipient of criticisimn in this article from Wired

Scribd

Have a browse around Scribd and see if anything takes your fancy. Scribd is a new platform for publishing and reading with a mind-boggling array of content.

Nudging

Wired gives an overview of their investigation into nudging practices online - both aggressive and non-aggressive behaviours can result in negative influence on our loyalties.

YouTube video editor

YouTube has added its own video editing programme which allows you to edit your posts in your browser.

Microsoft's Kinect

Microsoft's new Kinect gaming device was launched to great fanfare this week. Kinect responds to bodily movement thus negating the need for any handheld device. It is about to re-write the history of humanity - according to Microsoft that is!

re-packaging the news

The latest news is being re-packaged for young people in Japan in order that they might feel more engaged and informed. And the new package? Manga. Either online or on smart phones. Check out the examples at Wired.com

Augmented reality

Augmented Reality is a way of using smart phones and the like to collect additional information about hte world around us. It has a log way to go, but this video outlines some of the possibilities.

Music Production in 2010 - the techno laboratory!

An insight into Trent (NIN) Rezner's technology rich music production processes ... and his latest beats

Wired.com videos

Wired.com's video channel has all sorts of short clips about latest arts and technology projects including The Orb and the latest Gorrilaz video

ipad launched in UK

Hundreds queue to get their hands on the ipad as it launches in the UK. Sales have now risen to two million units in two months! I wonder how long it will take to get my hands on one...

Preserving our digital lives

Advice from the Digital Lives initiative on how we might go about preserving our digital memories

Light Graffiti at Watershed

Watershed's work with light graffiti is being documented online - the puruit of an interactive safe space at the venue is explored through the drawings of members of the public.

One book, one twitter

Visit crowdsourcing.com for information on other crowdsourcing initiatives, including the latest to use Twitter as a book discussion forum: One book, one twitter. First up, American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Crowdsourcing experiment

Might we be able to crowdsource music production processes? Wired are figureheading a collaborative experiment to find out. Very interesting...

3D

With all of the discussion around 3D recently, also getting in on the action is Playboy... the magazine's June centrefold will be in 3D!

Machine Orchestra

Check out the machine orchestra - an innovative collaboration between performers and robotic instruments now live in California

facebook privacy backlash?

How do we respond to Facebook's increasing domination of the social networking sphere? Dos it represent sinister wholesale selling of our identities? WIRED reports

A post at gigaoam explores further

See Zuckerberg's justification

MTV streaming

After a relatively stagnant times in terms of streaming gis online, MTV appear to be at the forefront of rejuvination... and its potentially free!

Thanks to Sonia for this - proof that we really don't read through the terms and conditions: Online shoppers unknowingly sold souls...

Document Freedom Day

Today is document freedom day... freeing us from the tyrrany of the .doc

More than semantics?

Wired report on the language we use to talk about the web, and how the term 'cyber' is often used when setting out to scare people. Note, in the module, the one instance of the term 'cyberspace' in the schedule...

Digital Theatre

A new resource of productions from leading theatres for download online. Might the exerience ever be the same as actially 'being there'? Should it be? See Digital Theatre for more.

future of the book?

Following on from this morning's session...
Introducing the Kobo eReader
and eye tracking tablets that can alter text in numerous ways in response to the ways in whic you read.

How playful:
Ben Folds IS the ChatRoulette piano player! Or is he?

For those of you following the story of google unfolding in China, the latest can be found here.

Is the tablet the future of computing?

Digital Lives project

The Digital Lives project at the British Library has published a really in-depth synthesis of their work so far

Kevin Smith becomes a hit through social media, at the same time as his films seem to be struggling. More at Wired

Google's Buzz

Goggle's buzz social network has already had to make some changes to the ways in which it organises its privacy and other settings. Read more at Wired

Thanks Stasia - got it sussed!

Here's a bit of a different spin on things:
from Wired.com

For those who are interested in the future of the book, here is an overview of current issues around the Google books project from wired.com:

Check out - dance-tech's exploration into interesting ways technology and motion might collide. Includes lots of video footage of projects, lectures, seminars etc.

Atoms are the New Bits - Chris Anderson

from wired.com

http://museummedia.nl/

Virtual revolution series

A ridiculous amount of free resources are available through the BBC's Virtual Revolution website

iPad

Two very different reviews of the iPad... I want one!

From Wired;
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/ipad-future/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+UK#Replay

From Charlie Brooker;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/ipad-therefore-iwant-why-idunno

SOCIAL MEDIA WEEK

Today is the first day of Social Media Week. Follow the various events at http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/

The six spacesw of social media (according to matt Locke). This post is a few years old now but certinaly worth the look:
http://test.org.uk/2007/08/10/six-spaces-of-social-media

NLA

National Library of Australia podcasts page - check out the Innovative Ideas Forum presentations:
http://www.nla.gov.au/podcasts/index.html