links for 2009-11-20

• Times updates social media guidelines | Readers' Representative Journal | Los Angeles Times
  Increasingly difficult: "Your professional life and your personal life are intertwined in the online world, just as they are offline. Attempts, for instance, to distinguish your high school friends from your professional associates are fine, but in all spaces one should adhere to the principle that as an editorial employee you are responsible for maintaining The Times’ credibility."
  (tags: socialmedia online guidelines prog3)
• More than 80% don't have digital skills
  "Training body Skillset will next week invite applications for a new £200,000 bursary scheme targeting freelancers wanting to undertake multiplatform training, with up to 500 places up for grabs."
  (tags: demographic skills media new_media bursary)

links for 2009-11-18

• The web shows us as we are – Telegraph
  my first column for the telegraph
  (tags: telegraph web newmedia internet online)

links for 2009-11-17

• Age of cyber warfare is 'dawning'
  BBC news covers the growing digital arms race
  (tags: cyberwar internet web online culture politics prog2)
• V&A Exploring Photography – Photographers
  so many photographers, so little time
  (tags: photography art culture reference search)
• Eleanor Hardwick
  photos to make you go wow.
  (tags: art photography)
• Linguistic balkanization and the Internet
  from 2006,in a pre-ICANN International Domain Name world
  (tags: language internets online internet culture web)
• Why it’s impossible to commit digital suicide – even if you really, really want to
  but what if you wanted to disappear?
  (tags: online web internet digital socialmedia trends identity)

links for 2009-11-16

• The Fifth Estate: Democratic Social Accountability Through the Emerging Network of Networks by William Dutton
  "The growing use of the Internet and related digital technologies is creating a space for networking individuals in ways that enable a new source of accountability in government, politics and other sectors. This chapter explains how this emerging 'Fifth Estate' is being established and why this could challenge the influence of other more established bases of institutional authority."
  (tags: research internet web politics governance prog2)
• Climate Change and Public Policy: The Hard (Social) Sciences of Influence, Public Policy and Global Governance
  Until governments place priority on the social sciences in addressing some of the hard questions about influence and policy related to climate change, we cannot expect to make real progress.
  (tags: influence social_influence social_psychology)
• Voice of judgment
  TES' take on the viva process (via Barry Atkins on Facebook)
  (tags: phd viva research study)
• Tim Berners-Lee in Africa: Web Foundation Announces 2 New Projects
  (tags: timberners-lee web webfoundation africa development)

links for 2009-11-12

• Digital Mission to SXSWi '10 – Apply!
  go to Austin's biggest geekfest in March with UKTI & Chinwag & find out your options in the USA
  (tags: chinwag sxswi event)
• Brain food: Brian Eno and Steven Johnson in conversation
  where *do* big ideas come from? A lovely review of this talk held in November 2009 at the ICA in London from Media Guardian
  (tags: culture technology internet web longnow london event)

links for 2009-11-11

• Rupert Murdoch: for whom the net tolls | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  hear hear, Cory
  (tags: corydoctorow doctorow google media journalism internet guardian microsoft news murdoch)
• Guardian News & Media to cut more than 100 jobs
  and the Technology Guardian print section is also to go.
  (tags: technology guardian economy media print)

links for 2009-10-30

• Internet regulator Icann approves web addresses in multiple languages | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  (tags: internet technology prog2 icann regulation online politics)

links for 2009-10-24

• Eternal September
  Wikipedia's entry on the term that describes the social evolution of the Web since September 1993, as new users are less educated in the netiquette of the Web
  (tags: internet history wikipedia community technology social culture)
• RFC 1121 (rfc1121) – Act one – the poems
  fan poetry re: the 'net from 1999. Fans include Postel & Cerf. Nice.
  (tags: web internet culture poetry fan)
• A people's history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today | Technology | guardian.co.uk
  reader-generated documentary about the web from the guardian
  (tags: internet history technology guardian web2.0 culture online)

links for 2009-10-23

• Who wants to be an e-millionaire?
  remember this? an e-talent show on Channel 4 in 2000
  (tags: e-millionaire gameshow tv internet web prog3 channel4 digitalrevolution)
• Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace, by Douglas Rushkoff
  primer on the web, circa 1994
  (tags: online technology book books research cyberspace douglasrushkoff)
• FRONTLINE: digital nation – life on the virtual frontier
  PBS's own open source doc on the web, to be broadcast in December 2010
  (tags: pbs digital douglasrushkoff documentary online internet culture media tv technology)

links for 2009-10-14

• James Burke Institute for Innovation in Education the Knowledge Web
  knowledge, james burke & the web: a perfect trio
  (tags: innovation jamesburke knowledge information web)