comment on the news of the day & other things
“Discover the future at The Midlands’ first digital festival. Celebrating the awe inspiring possibilities of the modern world, Hello Digital is an electrifying showcase of sights, sounds and dreams turning into reality”.
Here is all the live comment and pictures, via Twitter and Flickr:
Read the rest of the Hello Digital twitter stream on Twemes.
I’d like to have been able to say how good the session Real opportunities in a virtual Birmingham, supposedly broadly about Second Life(tm), and specifically about Birmingham’s presence which has been developed there, was. I would, really. Unfortunately, not only was the internet connectivity – both wifi and 3G – in the conference room so [...]
…you know when it’s the run-up to the Christmas season – the first ‘Winterval’ story of the year has appeared. As we all know, the story’s claim about “The increasing external pressures to secularise Christmas and even the attempts to rebrand it as ‘Winterval’” is, of course, a plate of steaming prairie oysters: “The council [...]
“A city council has blocked its staff from looking at websites about atheism. Lawyers at the National Secular Society said the move by Birmingham City Council was ‘discriminatory’ and they would consider legal action. The rules also ban sites that promote witchcraft, the paranormal, sexual deviancy and criminal activity”. Not least because it would be [...]
Not so very far down the page on the report of today’s fire on Weston-super-Mare’s pier appears a plea from the local police: Police have placed a cordon around the pier and beach and advised people to avoid the area. Then at the bottom of the article appears another plea, from the BBC News website [...]
I’m not particularly concerned with this story as such, but rather with the BBC’s reporting of it. ‘Asked if she would like to stay in Pakistan or return to the UK, she said: “I would like to stay here in Pakistan forever. And my name isn’t Molly, it is Misbah.” Molly added: “I knew my [...]
“Astronomers meeting in the Czech capital have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet”. Now I’m not saying it’s not interesting, or even not important, but what drew my attention to this story was that I walked away from my desk for a few minutes to talk to somebody down the corridor, [...]
Since this blog is essentially news-driven, it feels appropriate for me to start it off with an article I first wrote in the late 90′s and revised last year. Last November saw the start of a new comedy series on BBC2, Broken News, presenting a sardonic parody of modern 24-hour rolling news channels. Throughout, the [...]
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