Te above video presents the rise and rise of online videos using powerful infographics. The data of video use is amazing and the influence of YouTube is considerable. The questions that the video raise are in respect to the way that children think in a world where they are surrounded and immersed in videos. I [...]
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I think that this is the first time that I have put an ad into my blog. The reason for this though is because I found myself moved and thoughtful about this advertisement. It features Vic Gundotra, a senior executive and software developer at Google. It is shot in the style of a documentary and [...]
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Reuters have come out with a selection of photographs that they have had taken during 2011. I suppose the one that resonated the most with me was this: This is a convenience store in Hackney, East London, being ransacked by rioters. It meant a lot to me because I was born and bred in Hackney [...]
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I was fortunate enough the other day to receive a link (on Google + where I get many of my most interesting links these days) to a video about the 96 Year old activist and writer, Grace Lee Boggs. Firstly I was impressed by the crystal clear intellect of this woman who has been involved [...]
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I was watching a really good discussion on PBS between Richard Heffner and Howard Gardner. The subject was Gardner’s book “On Truth, Beauty and Goodness”. Towards the end of the interview Gardner comes out with a bold statement that Gandhi was the most influential figure of the last millennium. He justifies this statement by saying [...]
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Picture this. There has been a decision by the Artist’s Federation of Florence that all new paintings have to be rigidly examined as they are created. This is to fit into rigid new rules from the Florentine Government that specify the precise way that all paintings must look, the colours to be used, the subject [...]
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One of the greatest TED Talks that I ever saw was Ben Dunlap‘s brilliant “The Story of a Passionate Life“. I have seen this talk about three times and it never fails to move me. The main subject of the talk was Sandor Teszler, a businessman who suffered along with so many others during the [...]
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I came across this post on Facebook from Daniel Pink: Daniel Pink MT @brainpicker: 21 years ago today, @timberners_lee published a proposal to create the World Wide Web http://t.co/cJaAglp0 If you hit the hyperlink you will go to the original proposal made by Tim (now Sir Tim) Berners-Lee to CERN, the organisation he was working for [...]
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I have always been interested in potential. The word denotes a state of possibility. It is indefinite, in that it expresses an uncertain outcome. I recently came across an excellent talk via a link on G+ by Dr Stephen Krashen. After the talk he gave an interview in which he reflected on his ideas. I found [...]
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Two months ago I had a technological change in my life. I became an Android user by getting a Samsung Galaxy phone. I found it a joy to download lots of Apps and play around with them. Many of them lasted for just a few days before they lost their usefulness to me and others [...]
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