Kids, eh

via. Communities Dominate Brands

 

And appar­ently the most blogged about video on the ‘net at the moment. The URL of the creators, fleet­ingly referred to towards the end is http://www.mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

“… the basic idea is to create a 3 minute video high­lighting the most important char­ac­ter­istics of students today – how they

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Too Much; Too Young

My col­leagues at MusicTank are putting on an event next Wednesday (3/​​10/​​07) called ‘Music’s New Conundrum: Too Much Choice?’. MusicTank, if you haven’t come across it before, is a knowledge-​​​​sharing network for the music industry, in much the same way that my own outfit, NMK, is a knowledge-​​​​sharing network for the digital

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Ad Sense and Sensibility

I use Ad-​​​​Block Plus. I have done since I first heard of it, a couple of years ago. I think it’s bril­liant. I think ads on the Internet are annoying and intrusive and that they fun­da­ment­ally don’t work — I either don’t look at them, or I want them out of my face, or I resent the band­width they’re sucking up. The

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Proper Entertainment

Amazing shadow puppetry video.

GREAT Shadow PuppetryWatch today’s top amazing videos here

Found on Ursi’s blog — who is doing a fine job of gath­ering cool bits and pieces from all over the place.

Playing with iPlayer

Somehow, I’m on the beta pro­gramme for the BBC iPlayer. I can’t for the life of me remember applying for this, but that’s becoming fairly irrel­evant to the truth nowadays. Sadly, there aren’t any invites and so-​​​​forth I can offer to readers — this is the BBC, remember. They do things dif­fer­ently there.

It’s reas­on­ably stable,

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News Feeds

Over at curry­bet­dotnet, Martin Belam has produced OPML files for all the RSS feeds pub­lished by the eight leading UK newspapers.

This amounts to the aggreg­a­tion of 2316 dif­ferent feeds — though indi­vidual author feeds for the Guardian’s Comment is Free admit­tedly account for 1968 of these. A CiF-​​​​less version with 348 feeds

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