Internet swashbuckler Ben Hammersley has taken another step towards redeeming himself for inventing the word “podcast” with this programme for Radio 4’s Analysis on the willingness of people to disclose personal information on site like Facebook, and the implications this might have for our notions of privacy. Well worth a listen.

Grassroots video,collaboration webs,mobile broadband,data mashups,collective intelligence and social operating systems…..all in the Horizon 2008 report.
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf

There’s an article in — yes — the Guardian (we do read more widely than this blog might indicate) on the inclusion of high-resolution aerial images available from 192.com (”Sharper aerial pictures spark privacy fears“). These images are, as the article title suggests, extraordinarily detailed for images in the public domain, sufficiently so that “in [...]

It’s now widely accepted that children and young people are learning all the time — with many of the messages from the DCSF calling for educationalists to recognise and engage with the existence of a 100% curriculum.
This 100% curriculum is said to constitute the 15% of time school-aged children spend in formal education together with [...]