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Facebook has notched up 500 million users this week. The Guardian had data on where they all are, and a data analyst at Tableau, Ross Perez, put this into a great visualisation. Powered by Tableau via Read Write Web Posted via email from Tony Watkins It’s very good to see Lars Dahle joining the blogosphere. Lars is Principal of Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication in Kristiansand, Norway, where I am now an adjunct lecturer. He’s heading up the media and technology stream for Cape Town 2010 (3rd Lausanne Congress). A couple of his early posts have focused on the [...] This is a fabulous interactive infographic of all the Doctor Who monsters (not all of them are villains, really – the Ood, for example) since the first episode in 1963. A good summary of where the Internet is right now, or rather, where it was at the end of 2009. JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo. via lookingcloser.org Posted via web from Tony Watkins The final session with Southampton Deanery Chapter. SDC3. Responding to Media And the slides are here. The second of three sessions at the Southampton Deanery Chapter study day: SDC2. Perspectives on media A more print-friendly version of the slides is here. Yesterday I led a study day on engaging with media culture for the Southampton Deanery Chapter. Here’s the first session: SDC1. Culture Now A more print-friendly version of the slides is here. An interesting infographic which was posted on mashable.com: [Source: Online PhD Programs for MashableMashable.com] I stumbled across this yesterday, having missed it when it was published in The Guardian last year: The actor Sam Elliott, who starred in the 2007 adaptation of the first novel, Northern Lights (the film was called The Golden Compass), said earlier this week that books two and three were not being filmed due to a [...] This article was first published on Culturewatch. © Tony Watkins. When I interviewed Philip Pullman, I found him genial, generous and engaging. He has a sharp mind, a clever wit, and he’s a brilliant writer. He has justifiably been acclaimed as one of Britain’s finest writers, having won several awards including the Whitbread Book of the [...] Charlotte Higgins wrote this in her blog on the Guardian website yesterday. What a great response to Philip Pullman’s new book: The Good Man Jesus is a fascinating story, told in the same kind of spare, lapidary prose as the Gospels themselves or a Grimm brothers fairytale. Pullman’s gift for storytelling is in evidence on every [...] |
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