Podcasting in Plain English

Those folk over at CommonCraft have done it again with an excellent animation on how Podcasting works. Check it out.

Will the BBC iPlayer go the same way as BBC Jam?

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BBC Jam was meant to be the BBC’s exciting new online education service. The service went live in January 2006, with the BBC pledging to invest £150m over five years. Half of the budget has already been spent. It had 170,000 registered users when the BBC Trust [...]

Digital Families

Following on from the Byron Report , that among other things recommended parents should take more interest in what their kids are doing online comes the Digital Families’ Report. The research, carried out in 10 countries by the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA). The findings are interesting as it shows the extent to which people [...]

Would Shakespeare have been a blogger today?

Victor Keegan has a good article titled “All the world wide web’s a stage” over at the Guardian on how the resources on the web reflect the fact that Shakespeare has probably never been more popular than he is today. He list an amazing amount of projects and web sites dedicated to exploring and discussing [...]

Children flock to social networks

 Interesting new research on the use of social networking sites carried out by Ofcom. It will be interesting to compare these results with the kind of results Louise will be gathering soon.
More than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds in the UK have a profile on a social network, research shows.Most sites, such as Bebo, [...]