links for 2010-01-26

• Episode 12: Dr Aleks Krotoski of ShiftRunStop
  giving it promo on the best geek podcast in the world
  (tags: shiftrunstop bbc geek virtualrevolution digitalrevolution bbcdigrev bbc2)
• About Social by Social
  an open sourced book writing project, supported by NESTA
  (tags: technology newmedia opensource publication nesta internet web)
• Jaron Lanier Is Rethinking the Open Nature of the Internet
  anonymity in cyberspace ruins everything.
  (tags: online web anonymity wikipedia prog1 bbcdigrev virtualrevolution)

links for 2010-01-25

• China accuses US of using cyberwarfare
  Google extraction escalates war of words with China
  (tags: china cyberwar bbcdigrev prog2 google internet web politics usa)
• Debate: Science reporting: is it good for you?
  a webcast video of the debate between Lord Drayson & Dr Ben Goldacre
  (tags: science media journalism badscience video research twitter)
• ScraperWiki
  help open up the data on the web by contributing scraper code for public data on this wiki. or search for scraper code if you want public data.
  (tags: data research)
• Routes Game
  still loving this award-winning multiplatform documentary/game/arg from Channel 4 and Wellcome. Really excellent.
  (tags: games education channel4 science arg play game genetics online web wellcome)

links for 2010-01-24

• Charting the Digital Revolution
  Series producer Russel Barnes explains the thoughts behind the development of Virtual Revolution
  (tags: bbc digital internet socialnetworks web tv interactive digitalrevolution bbcdigrev virtualrevolution online bbc2)
• Digital Revolution: BBC experiments with Open Source Documentaries
  coverage from Interactive Documentary
  (tags: web tv bbc BBC2 digitalrevolution bbcdigrev virtualrevolution press)
• How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
  Douglas Adams, from 1999
  (tags: internet technology culture web social media history tech douglasadams)
• The Virtual Revolution On BBC – Dissociated Press
  a preview from Dissociated Press
  (tags: virtualrevolution bbc bbcdigrev bbc2 "virtual revolution" media TV online web)

links for 2010-01-23

• BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Loose Ends, 23/01/2010
  Listing for Loose Ends, on which I share the mic with Ian McKellan, David Threlfall, Richard Herring & Clive Anderson
  (tags: bbc iplayer looseends radio4)

links for 2010-01-22

• Remarks on Internet Freedom
  the text of Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech in DC on 21 January 2010
  (tags: internet freedom policy politics speech video 2010 china clinton diplomacy web prog1 prog2 bbcdigrev virtualrevolution)
• Internet freedom 'a foreign policy issue'
  debabte on the issues on Radio 4's Today programme from Thursday 21st January 2010
  (tags: radio internet data freedom web online politics policy)

links for 2010-01-20

• The Good Gym
  a good idea: pairs runners with people with limited mobility in their local area so runners can deliver things and visit, and can exercise at the same time
  (tags: health community social volunteering fitness running)
• Gaming: the real-world implications of an infectious pursuit
  The environment may be virtual, but the players are not only real: they are also active, willing and highly-motivated participants within an arena that elicits far more sophisticated, ‘realistic’ behaviours than any comparable laboratory experiment. Not to mention that the quantity and depth of data that can be derived from virtual worlds is of a level that was only being dreamt of in the social sciences a few decades ago.
  (tags: virtual virtual_world online research method)
• Women in the workforce: Female power
  from The Economist
  (tags: gender women business feminism work demographic)
• Women and work: We did it!
  taking over the workplace
  (tags: women business data gender europe feminism demographic)

links for 2010-01-19

• Population of the Dead
  nice little schematic from appfrica
  (tags: statistics visualization history science data demographics population)
• Technology comes to the aid of Haiti
  new media solutions to real world social problems
  (tags: data information technology twitter web2.0 socialmedia online web haiti crisis event)
• The Transition from the Co-Digital to the Post-Digital.
  from innovation to mainstream: how 'digital' has entered the public's consciousness, on University of oxford's TALL blog
  (tags: oxford research digital social innovation online web trends)