Sunday, February 14, 2010

Indymedia - 10 years on

discovered Real Time Arts - magazine
reading message is medium is message by Sydney-based Zanny Begg.

The UK Indymedia does not have Wales designated branch but does have a Bristol and South West branch. Noted articles covering Welsh topics include:

Wales, the first and final colony speech by Adam Price, the MP for Dinefwr and East Carmarthenshire, presented to the Institute of Welsh Politics, Annual Address, Aberystwyth, 16th November 2009.

2nd Landslide Win Against Biofuel Power At Newport, South Wales

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

BBC - Virtual Revolution: Episode 1

BBC 2 - Sunday eve series: The Virtual Revolution - How 20 years of the web has reshaped our lives

episode 1: The Great Levelling?
The wonder and walls of Wikipedia; the blogger media revolution; the price of peer-to-peer piracy... who really has power on the web? Is it the online crowd or the 'gatekeepers'? Is the web a platform for sharing or is it inequality writ large?


Dr. Aleks Krotoski meets some of the biggest names of the web, including Jimmy Wales, Arianna Huffington, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, and the inventor of the web himself, Tim Berners Lee.

Open Souce Mean Business - BBC R4



Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means Business:
Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open source' computer software. available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00kp806

First Broadcast 1 June 2009 - which I missed
broadcast again on Radio 4 on 2 Feb 2010


Cloud Culture: The internet’s next revolution
















up and coming from the British Council's think tank counterpoint...

Cloud computing promises a huge liberation of human creativity and communication; but can this precious space for our collaboration be kept open and free? Charles Leadbeater, leading thinker on creativity and innovation writes here about the issues he addresses in his new pamphlet published by Counterpoint on 8 February - Cloud Culture: the global future of cultural relations.

Ordering pizza in the future

Video produced by American Civil Liberties Union in 2006. Recently brought to my attention by David Rowan, editor of Wired UK. Rowan's presentation on Future Trends formed the introduction to a one day event hosted by the Welsh Assembly Gov on collaboration, new media and creative industries on 28 January 2010 at WMC. Can't find any links for the event online.