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Winner It's won a string of awards already and Somers Town is a great film. Shane Meadows always seems to come up with a new take on ma...

Clear Originally uploaded by De Seven Free . There’s a whole lot of work to do on creating a taxonomy of graffiti tags. Recently I’ve been t...

I went to pay my last respects to Tinsley Towers last week and somehow managed to leave my camera at home! But not to worry, there are s...

they knock yer back I've just been writing about music-sharing for the Web 2.0 book. I wrote this. 'Legal file-sharing can be used i...

Born to be wild One of the attractions of music file-sharing is that the user can select the specific track wanted, rather than the whole bu...

Twenty two and three six four days We’ve had a bumper crop of good SATs stories this year, starting off with this one about a student picki...

Fog your brain Thank goodness it's just texting and emailing....blogs are perfectly OK! Phew. Here's the wonderful Becky Bowley (r...

r I just love all those portmanteau words! In Canada I discovered the wonderful idea of a snack called a naanwich, a real linguistic mash-up...

Sarah and Danah Wow! This was NRC - nearly 3 years ago. I realised I haven't been visiting some blogs very much lately. So I've don...

I'm one of the founders of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy - and it's a fine journal. It's a great pleasure to work wit...

tattoo book I've finally got my copy of Arabic Tattoos (see sidebar for details). It's got my photograph of Ruth's white farasha...

open your mind We already have a language for the topgraphy of online space that is expressed in th way we refer to the flow of information ...

bear watching Reading this sign in Tofino, I was struck by how we now simply watch what we once hunted. I think it was John Berger who once ...

padlock on green I'm reading Bachelard's Poetics of Space at the moment. It's a fascinating work that looks at intimate spaces l...

no graffiti Views from the Capilano Suspension Bridge are truly amazing, and the experience of walking across reminds you of the fairground...

Niagara Falls reaction This is me visiting Niagra Falls, the other day. It’s a reaction shot in response to Ivor Tossell of the Globe and Ma...

on the wall I've been thinking a lot this week about ways of being in online and offline spaces. Annette Markham's idea of internet-...

Amy amd Hannah I wanted to develop the participatory learning theme a little more from what Michele talked about and also with reference to ...

Digital moment And of course, both of them were fabulous! Listening to Michele helped me to refine my thoughts. I've realised that what ...

I gave my keynote today, and it seemed to go down OK. It’s great that Vivian Vasquez is here ( this is her podcast stuff). I also learnt ab...