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North Edinburgh Arts Centre - Possible Funeral Announcement

January 20, 2010 at 6pm to January 10, 2011 at 7pm – North Edinburgh Arts Centre
Speednetworking Event

February 10, 2010 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm – Alba Innovation Centre
Man on Wire: Simon Chinn Masterclass

February 12, 2010 from 2pm to 5pm – Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The English Surgeon: Geoffrey Smith Masterclass

February 17, 2010 from 2pm to 5pm – Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Burma VJ: Janus Jansen Masterclass

February 19, 2010 from 2pm to 5pm – Edinburgh, United Kingdom
The Lost Colony: Astrid Bussink Masterclass

February 26, 2010 from 2pm to 5pm – Edinburgh, United Kingdom
NISP CONNECT Frameworks: Launch a New Product and Get Bang for your Buck

March 2, 2010 from 8am to 10am – The Innovation Centre, Northern Ireland Science Park
Glasgow UX book club

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9/11 Falling Man: Henry Singer Masterclass

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MEd Artist Teacher Launch/Taster

March 13, 2010 all day – Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum

Guardian Tech

Bioshock 2

Microsoft Office 2010 review

Facebook under fire again over redesign

Challenges of filming Virtual Revolution

Google spends $5m on Super Bowl ad

The astronaut and his Twitpics

Science Weekly podcast: Space jam

Two futures of the internet: next cold war or up in the clouds

500,000 EU computers can access private British data

Vodafone suspends employee after obscene tweet on official account

Opposition to Digital Economy bill grows

Labour MP Tom Watson: 'Macs rarely crash - even when you drop them'

Symbian makes its software open source

The Wikipedia of the mapping world

Sun boss quits with haiku tweet

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The Boys of St Columb's -Tuesday RTÉ One

Wallace High School students in "Killing Bono"

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LORG LUNNY - Wednesdays at 10.30pm on TG4

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Back to the Future: How Apple is Becoming More Like a Carrier Every Day

Foursquare Signing Mainstream Partnership Deals Left And Right

The Value Of Online Buzz For The Top 20 Brands

The Long Tail Of Video Sites Capture Half Of All Viewing Minutes

blueKiwi Rides the Freemium Wave

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Love and romance will soon be upon us again. A tacky card with padded hearts is not enough, true love can only be measured in gigabytes. So its either a new gadget or an MP3 of Barry White. For more love and romance read the blogs at 38minutes. Wanted is our most active group. Check out Anne Bonnar on Shirky's Rant. Other blogs include Big Brother winning the Turner Prize or Mark MacLachlan's radical suggestion that we pay for Scotland's aging citizens to enjoy a free trip to Libya. Or just pimp your project.

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Blog Posts: Words of Wisdom on the World Wide Web

Early days for the Scottish Music Industry Association

The music industry in Scotland is quite fragmented, and often struggles to represent itself collectively to the world. There's been much discussion around the creation of a high-profile and fully representative music trade body - it's good to see it coming together now.

The Scottish Music Industry Association has been established as the representative body for the music industry in Scotland. The association hopes to represent and grow the industry, an essential, vibrant and vit

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Posted by George Falconer on February 8, 2010 at 3:00pm

The e-Grauniad. Trust no one

Gather round, 38 minis. I tell a tale about who to trust. Long long ago, when newspapers where printed on printing presses, after each individual letter of type had been carefully placed by hand, The Guardian newspaper was notorious for sloppy proofing. It made so many mistakes, it was known fo

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Posted by Anne Bonnar on February 8, 2010 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Digital Media Developments

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BBC self-regulator the BBC Trust is to carry out a full public consultation on the Corporation's ‘fair trading policy’, according

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Posted by Stuart Cosgrove on February 8, 2010 at 9:29am

Another Language is Lost in the Land of HTML

HTML - hypertext mark-up langauge is probably the most widely used language in the world but as we consume the web sometimes without a thought pay a second's thought for the death of a lang… Continue

Posted by Stuart Cosgrove on February 7, 2010 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

Scotland, the Time Machine and our Landed Gentry

http://the-universality-of-cheese.blogspot.com/2010/02/but-my-mind-was-too-confused-to-attend.html

I'd love to post the whole blog here, but the formatting is driving me up the wall of death.

Posted by Mark MacLachlan on February 7, 2010 at 12:30pm — 5 Comments

Poems in Public Places

This is a cool project

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Posted by Stuart Cosgrove on February 5, 2010 at 4:30pm

$1 Billion from Social Media

Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos.com

Ok so some of you may have heard of a company based in a suburb of Las Vegas called Zappos.com, they are an online retailer. They originally just sold shoes – now it’s a whole different ball game; they sell a way of life.

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Posted by Colin Gilchrist on February 5, 2010 at 12:43pm — 5 Comments

Excessive internet use linked to depression

A Leeds University study (released a couple of days ago) finds that people who are classified as internet addicts are more likely to be depressed than non-addicted users. This a serious and thought provoking piece (Guardian) and, in correlation to recent research on how long many youngsters spend online, it highlights an important issue that requires more funding to help develop programmes and suppor… Continue

Posted by Arvind Salwan on February 5, 2010 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

Teens prefer reading news online to Twitter

New US research shows that, despite popular belief, teenagers prefer reading news online than on Twitter. No brainer really. Includes some interesting stats and pretty bar grahs.

Posted by Arvind Salwan on February 5, 2010 at 9:00am

The Economist’s recent special report on social networking was entitled ‘A World of Connections’ and concluded simply – The world is better off for it. Its survey of the diverse means by which millions of people are now connected in real time,… Continue

Posted by Sam Cassels on February 4, 2010 at 1:48pm — 2 Comments

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Featured Member: Radio Magnetic

Dougal Perman runs internet radio station and digital sound emporium , Radio Magnetic, one of the UK's longest-running and most popular internet radio stations, Radio Magnetic is passionate about dub step, electro, drum n bass, hip hop, reggae, electronica, house, techno, indie, rock, jazz and soul. Radio Magnetic are one of a cluster of smart companies based in Glasgow's Hidden Lane, where Radio Magnetic broadcast beats to the world.Hidden Lane is a "magical creative community in the heart of Glasgow".

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