TEDx is coming to Nottingham on March 17th 2012. The theme is Hidden Heroes. Ticket applications open at 9am on Monday 20th February 2012 until 9am Thursday 23rd February 2012. Each individual can only apply for two tickets which will be randomly allocated. Follow @TEDxNottingham for updates on tickets and speakers. Follow the discussion at #TEDxNott. Hope to see you there.
Great news that iPlayer is now available on iOS devices. “@mikebutcherBBC iPlayer app launched for iPhone & iPod touch, w 3G streaming across all networks. Details: http://bbc.in/uJabd5” Note that devices older than iPhone 3GS and iPhones and iPod touches that continue to access the mobile web version, will remain a Wi-Fi only service. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2011/12/iplayer_bbciplayer_iphone_android.html The BBC [...]
A great start to the day with breakfast at Hungry Pumpkin with other attendees prepping themselves for the day at Mediacamp Nottingham 4. Sue Beckingham’s talk on Using Social Media to create a Personal Learning Network provided some great insight on the tools available and how to use them to best effect. I’m definitely going [...]
It seems like much more than a year since Mediacamp 2 took place. It’ll be interesting to see how much has changed in that time. With talks on developing a webTV network (Fibrecamp), location based social platform stuff, crowdsourcing goodness , digital inclusion and reputation management, it sounds like its usual mixed bag of interesting [...]
This Sunday Times article by Douglas Adam has resurfaced on the 10th anniversary of his death. It has following statements: everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make [...]
As of March 2011, I’m up to 36 loans on Kiva. All loans have been to entrepreneurs in Peru, for a variety of retail and agriculture services. It’s been massively rewarding to be able to help with a simple loan. Repayments have always arrived on time with no missed payments at all. Loan repayments are [...]
