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We've been having a bowling competition on Robbie's Wii. Spending a little time making our Mii avatars makes all the difference as t...

Lower Level 2 If you've ever had anything to do with literacies, you can't fail to be struck by the dense textual environment of Hon...

Don't think just work Well, it's time for a nostalgic sort of post. Time because this old blog is now five years old. And in that ti...

So, after yesterday’s post and in the interest of balance, here’s the Hong Kong duo Fama . Now is that indie, or canto-indie? I’m no longer ...

One of the most fascinating papers at Hong Kong Pop was Angel Lin ’s sociolinguistic study of local hip-hop artist MC Yan. Fascinating bec...

weight I finally made it to Hong Kong after getting stranded in Paris with bad weather. If I get a good night's sleep then I should be O...

Yale (turquoise band) There's a great little story here in the Guardian about how easy it is to cut keys from images on your Flickr pho...

Skysigns We often hear stories about the evils of gaming. Earlier in the week I reported about the Italian boy who was diagnosed with PlaySa...

This video is interesting in a number of ways. It plays on the amateur feel of a lot of language instruction material to feed that obsessio...

Jim Gee ’s sustained examination of videogames does two things. Firstly it helps to show their learning potential in the face of ongoing mor...

. Here’s a link to a New York Times video which shows the faces of fascination when youngsters are emerged in video gameplay. I think it’s a...

I’m beginning to work my way through a modest pile of assignments written by student teachers. What really strikes me is the way in which th...

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo . If the concept of animated graffiti sparks your imagination, then this video show...

Wires and cables If you've got the latest, don't assume everyone else has! That's what Jackie and I discovered today at the NFT ...

red berries Just when more and more people are getting comfortable inhabiting the Facebook space, along comes the spectre of the social netw...

Mill HQ The UKLA regional conference in Sheffield was a great success. Celebrating the National Year of Reading, it was deftly steered int...

Love at first sight Cultural chaos and moral decay are strong words to use about Web 2.0, but Andrew Keen isn’t afraid to use them. He dare...

mino OMG, it's arrived! I'm now the proud owner of a Mino (from Flip ). Design - good; packaging - i-podesque; heft - brilliant; eas...

working There's something faintly disturbing about Google gobbling up whole libraries of print. It's an unsettling paradox in that t...

Rejoice We inhabit a culture in which choosing from a pallette of pre-written templates is common place. I'm just about to start some wo...