Serious Games and Things

If you start a job as an oil rigger, then there’s a 50% chance you’ll have a report­able accident within the next six months. After that period, the risk drops to 5% or less, as you get to know the ropes.

That’s quite fright­ening for poten­tial oil-​​​​riggers and for people in the oil and gas industry who hire

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The Big Shitty

Thanks to DrewB for this invalu­able reminder of my status, via Ffffound:

I have three invit­a­tions to Ffffound, if you like pictures. First come, first served in the comments.

My Week in Media

I’ve been tagged twice for this so here goes. I have also cheated and extended this out to two weeks…

Telly: watched Extras and Dr Who over Christmas. Neither of them were as good as I’d hoped. Otherwise, I watched The Most Annoying People of the Year on BBC 3 through iPlayer, which was quite possibly

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Conflict?

Update: Had a good chat with Daryl Wilcox, and it looks like we’ve come to a sensible com­promise that will allow Tim to do his job and Response Source to maintain its purity. All’s well, etc.

My staff writer at NMK — Tim Hoang — works for the PR company, Rainier, as well. That’s always some­thing we’ve

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Digital Media Literacy?

I am just back from the Digital Media Literacy Forum Summit hosted by Channel 4.

Most of the people there — from the worlds of media, edu­ca­tion and policy making — agreed that there was some need for action on digital media literacy (I guess none of us would have turned up, oth­er­wise) but there

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Things I Wish I’d Said #1084

I was at a roundtable debate this morning about Citizen Journalism (update: rather ungen­erous of me not to mention this was hosted by the excel­lent people from iStock­Photo). Everyone saying they want to embrace CJ as part of their forward strategy. I suggest that main­stream media is attempting to contain rather than embrace conversations.

Me (to

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