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Day 25 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge and the letter Y. 400-word ramble through my thoughts on YouTube advertising. YouTube! Where would we be without YouTube! On-demand, make/publish/choose-your-own-content television. Wow! What more could we ask for? The freedom to create and broadcast our own video content and watch, at our leisure, content created by others.... Continue Reading →
Great introduction to AMAZING free online education - MOOC - from the folks over at DLCS Management. My MOOC & The Science of Gastronomy.
So I'm, taking a web design course at Camosun College. After the first class, we're sent home to do a 30-day trial download and install of Photoshop CS6. Which I do. And getting to the part where I finally get to do my homework - using various tools in Photoshop to manipulate images - was one... Continue Reading →
There's no doubt the seafront is Brighton's greatest asset. In the 2 and a 1/2 years I've lived here, I've been fortunate enough to always live within a few minutes walk, and really enjoy it. It's inspired some surprising poems. There's even a cycle path that goes along the sea from one side of town... Continue Reading →
For the full effects of this blog post, put your headphones on! I haven't been writing as much here as I've been consumed with making audio tracks and posting them on Soundcloud and over at alisonboston.wordpress.com. I love Soundcloud. I first joined in 2008 - when I was living in Barcelona and started playing around... Continue Reading →
"I think singular pronoun agreement is evolving out of English; most authors I copy-edit use “they” rather than the correct, “he or she” (or variations). Will you abandon pronoun agreement?" Meg Nash, a freelance writer-editor in the Greater Philadelphia area asked that question just over a month ago in the LinkedIn Writers and Editors group. ... Continue Reading →
Lessons from TEFL classroom 01 I attended a lot of different events during the Brighton Digital Festival. At one event, we were broken down into smaller groups - the idea being that it would increase networking, and get people sharing ideas with random people, rather than the people we were drawn to/ended up standing/sitting next... Continue Reading →
The problem with these single-cup, coffee drip bags is the instructions. The labeling isn't consistent with the instructions. Instruction 2 reads: "Push in tab to hold open." Push in what tab? There is nothing labeled 'TAB'. Where the word 'TAB' should appear we get "PRESS HERE". Very confusing, because nowhere in the instructions does it... Continue Reading →
I've been taking in some of the Open Studios which are part of Brighton's Digital Festival. On Friday afternoon at Cogapp, Gavin Mallory and Joshua Routh gave a presentation about their work creating interactive maps. In particular, a Magic Magnifying Glass they developed for Magnificent Maps at the British Library. They asked if anyone in... Continue Reading →
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