A new photo exhibition is showing the real gamers behind their virtual creations.
Fascinating is the outsourcing of even our entertainment and learning. There are teams of Chinese workers spending hours building up the power levels of virtual characters to increase their value and sell them to those of us who do not want to work our way up from the bottom.
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With Marconi’s failure to be part of BT’s 21st Century Network, a sell-off was inevitable. Ericsson now gets to complement its mobile business with fixed line network equipment while the once great Marconi has been decimated.
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Ipsos-Insight has just released some findings to show that it is:
essential to effectively communicate the benefits of RSS (ease, convenience, access to information of interest). Internet users do not understand how to use the XML button, how to actively seek out RSS feeds, or even what the term RSS means.
That would be promoting the benefits and not the feature, then?
Just 4% of US internet users knowingly use RSS, a great tool for customising and filtering information (I like the free and very easy to use Bloglines), while 27% use it unknowingly (principally through MyMSN and MyYahoo).
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Sick of the crazy frog, that tedious default Nokia ring or distorted Bach blaring out on your mobile? Get yourself (or your fellow commuter) a proper ring tone. I recommend the highly reassuring 1960s Type 700 – Medium.
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In the run-up to the UN’s net phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the US and the EU still can’t agree on who should be administering the internet. WSIS was set up with fine principles to make international policy on the internet. ICANN is the body set up by the US government to assign numbers and domain names. Which of these should decide policy?
This article, in some detail, explains the background to the controversy. It raises questions about whether ICANN can operate in the interests of the planet and he outlines some of the policy areas that are making this more than a technical issue of server addresses and IP numbers:
- Spreading access to the disadvantaged, and providing content of value to them in their native languages.
- Inequitable costs paid by underdeveloped countries to connect to the major countries that offer Internet service.
- The need to guarantee business transactions online.
- Revising laws regarding speech for the Internet (eg. accuracy).
- Prosecution of those committing electronic crime
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As the prices of flat screen technology continues to plummet, Siemens has revealed paper thin screens that can be produced cheaply and can show moving images similar to a TV. Expect to see it used for ads and packaging.
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It takes an increasingly stronger will and a great deal of focus to be a master of technology and not a slave to it. This entertaining article advises us to take more control of technology and has a nice summary of what might cause poor productivity and overload:
Internal causes:
External causes:
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This year has seen two of my previous employers making new friends. NOP got taken over by GfK following a (not altogether successful) restructure under the corporate United Business Media and I understand former NOP colleagues are now being encouraged to go orange.
Then this week fast-growing MORI is being merged with Ipsos to become UK agency number 3 in terms of turnover. The remarkable Sir Bob did OK out of it – when will he ever retire?
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Do you know what sypware is, what it can do and how to get rid of it? Wired news has a nice summary with simple, practical help.
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Great uncertainty still surrounds the viability of open access academic publishing. The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has brought out a report saying that open access journals publish less, have a lower rejection rate, and are not making any money.
Open access publisher BioMed Central has hit back and said the future looks rosy.
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