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Is the web making us conform and be less individual, is free devaluing our things?

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:31:00 GMT

In this video interview with Doug Rushcoff for the excellent BBC Virtual Revolution series he explores the nature of the web as free.

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TED is great, unless you are not there…!

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:57:00 GMT

This year the anti-TED movement seems to have geared up a level with criticism coming right, left and centre with TechCrunch seeming to lead the way…

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Interacting with data using Microsoft Pivot

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:19:00 GMT

The Microsoft Pivot project is now available outside for general download and its an impressive tool for visualising and interacting with data.

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Remix Culture – social play and copyright policy

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:16:00 GMT

This Julian Sanchez 8-minute video on remix culture talks about how this isn't just about sitting around your house remixing, but often turns into a social event among remixers and their friends.

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TED Talk – David S Rose on How to Pitch to a VC

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:43:00 GMT

An excellent sub 15 minute video by David S Rose on How to Pitch to a VC

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Reflecting on a week of tweets, could be useful?

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:30:00 GMT

I’m treating this blog post as an experiment to see if reflecting on tweets over the past week unearths any useful activity for taking forward! More...

#lrnchat 90 minutes exploring training and learning myths & truths

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:48:00 GMT

#lrnchat is a weekly twitter discussion that occurs every Thursday evening from 8:30 est, yesterdays explored some of the myths around training and learning

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Open Innovation / Innovation in Open Networks

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:08:00 GMT

This TEDx Dubai 2009 talk by Joi Ito is a great introduction to the technical and legal stack underpinning and driving innovation in open networks with a focus on how sharing changes things.

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Entrepreneurs Manifesto: If you are silent, you are part of the problem

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:30:00 GMT

Yesterday Doug Richard took part in a live webchat before publishing his Entrepreneurs Manifesto accompanied by a short background interview carried out by Smarta staff.

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What Matters Now – free e-book from @ThisIsSethsBlog

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:54:00 GMT

What Matters Now is a free e-book from Seth Godin (@ThisIsSethsBlog) containing thoughts/ideas from 70 big thinkers.

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Startup Metrics Model – from AARRR! to RARR!

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:08:00 GMT

Inspired by Jude Gomila’s post on Mapping Out Your Web Startup which in turn is based on Dave McClure’s Startup Metrics 101 I thought that I’d have a go at creating a framework for applying relevant metrics to – sounding less of a pirate going from AARRR! to RARR! though…

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Creative Commons Licences and use of Trademarks to protect your work

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:18:00 GMT

CCLearn has prepared a useful guide on CC Licenses and Trademarks targeted towards organisations creating OER works but is of use to any organisation wanting to allow others to adapt, localise and remix their works whilst still retaining retain control of their intellectual property rights including copyright and also trademark(s)

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The difference engine (ala Y Combinator, Techstars, Seedcamp) launches

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:06:00 GMT

The Difference Engine is a new programme for early stage digital businesses that provides £20k funding and mentoring support over a 16 week period for 10 companies, the programme runs twice a year.

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A Wordle of this blog...

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:04:00 GMT

A quick wordle of this blog… More...

Digital North East – a regional #digitalbritain strategy for the digital sector

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Digital North East is a North East England regional strategy that aims to expand the digital sector and stimulate the regions economy through digital technology. The strategy, which is owned by ONE North East.More...

50 Years of Space Exploration - Seadragon Ajax version

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:41:00 GMT

50 Years of Space Exploration in one graphic that you can zoom and pan around

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Using Apture to collate resources and in any page

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Apture is a great addition to any website that provides and there is now a creator/builder tool that allows you to collate and embed resources in any webpage without the need to install any apture related plugins.

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CCPlus / CC+ – being clear with Creative Commons AND your own agreement

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:18:00 GMT

CCPlus allows you to clearly add a human, legal and machine readable Creative Commons (CC) licence to your work PLUS clearly highlighting to users how they can obtain any additional rights not granted by the CC licence.

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Videographics from the Economist

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:11:00 GMT

The Economist now has an interesting section on videographics, each of which can be downloaded or embedded into blogs, teaching resources etc.

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Bookmarking is a delicious gateway drug to Social Media

james.burke@deburca.co.uk — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:54:00 GMT

Social Media is now mainstream in most web applications that deliver content and have a community that consume and influence that content. Over the last few months I have been training various staff in the NHS where an appreciation regarding the benefits of embracing social media was needed to be quickly acquired before moving on to more specific training relating to e-learning – I needed to get them hooked on and bought into the concepts Social Media quickly – bookmarking ended up be my delicious gateway drug to Social Media!

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