Feed: Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education - AggScore: 82.1

• Twitter / peter ashe: Patient Opinion's *got* th ... Patient Opinion's *got* the tone right. Interesting to watch MyPolice *getting* the tone right in a different domain http://bit.ly/3qXVwF
• In Going Free, London Evening Standard Doubles Circulation While Slashing Costs | Techdirt the paper has doubled its circulation in just a month. Not bad. But what's more interesting is that it's also slashed its distribution costs massively. It used to cost about 30p, and now it's just 4p per paper.
• Video Game Competitions to Expand Stem Learning in the United States The organizations will work to harness the excitement surrounding computer and video games through a series of STEM-related video game design competitions. "Computer and video games are one of the most effective ways to reach America's children and encourage them to stay interested in vital STEM principles. We are honored to have President Obama recognize the unique ability of games to act as a catalyst in generating new areas of growth in education," said Michael D. Gallagher, president and CEO of the ESA, the trade association representing U.S. computer and video game publishers.
• The National Collection of Aerial Photography Amazing aerial shots from wartime, covering the UK and Europe in particular.
• North East explores New Directions | bdaily TV | North East business news The New Directions conference was held at the Tyneside Cinema on Thursday 29 October. We went along to find out what is being done to engage young people with the media industry.

A group of folk who I believe are spearheading informal learning in the most unlikely of ways are looking for some help, and edu.blogs.com readers are almost certainly likely to be able to help. Do you undertake some informal learning...

Via Euan I saw this lovely example of how we might think about changing behaviour, not always in the way we'd associate with those in positions of authority. Mind you, I wonder if only the Dutch Danish Police could get...

• Towry Law | Independent financial planning services | Business financial planning consultants and advisors | Advice, managers and services

Becta, the UK education technology agency, has been looking into how schools communicate with parents and vice versa. Their initial research has discovered some home truths that, unfortunately, are all too recognisable: ‘Invisible’ parents: Of the parents who admitted they...

• BBC News - Police open up to social media There is no national plan to make the police use social media, but its use by beat bobbies and many other officers is about to get a boost with the creation of the MyPolice website. Set up by designers Sarah Drummond and Lauren Currie, it hopes to become a central point on which members of the public can relate the good and bad of their experiences with the police. "Its creation stems from my friend getting robbed," said Ms Drummond. "She didn't have a terrible experience but there were aspects of her case that she was not happy with." In a similar way the site will log these problems, funnel them to the police and find out what happens to put things right. Ms Drummond said the plan is to run a closed pilot with a couple of forces before rolling it out more widely. The two designers are working on data visualisation tools to ensure that the site is easy to use for both the public and police.

• Edinburgh Spotlight - Edinburgh news, reviews and information A fabulous new Edinburgh website written by locals on things to do, where to eat and what's on in Edinburgh

• The Daily Start-Up: The Year Of Social Gaming - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ RockYou Like A Hurricane - If 2007 is considered the year of social networking, 2009 might be the year of social gaming. Companies that make games for social networking sites are already proving their worth - Playfish was just acquired by Electronic Arts for at least $300 million, Zynga is making tens of millions of dollars in revenue and Playdom raised a hefty round of financing. Now there’s news that RockYou, one of the earliest developers of so-called widgets on social networks, has raised a giant-sized $50 million round as it also moves deeper into social-gaming. SoftBank was apparently the only investor in this round, meaning previous investors DCM, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Partech International and Sequoia Capital curiously did not re-up.

• Clicker - What's On Online More social TV
• Germany gets personalised print newspaper made up of blog posts and newspaper articles Today I should have received my first edition of Niuu, a personalised print newspaper comprised of articles taken from various blogs and newspapers. Delivery time should be between 4 AM and 6 AM so that people can read it over breakfast. Niiu has contracts with mostly German newspapers like Bild, Frankfurter Rundschau and Handelsblatt but also with the Washington Times and The International Herald Tribune. Readers can use the Niiu website to customise which page of a newspaper they want to read in the morning. Local news from Berliner Morgenpost can easily be combined with Sports from Bild and the New York Times’ frontpage with just a few clicks. Content can always be reshuffled for the next day’s edition. Even Russia’s Komsomolskaja Prawda is a partner as well as blogs like Cult of Mac, Slashdot and Netzpolitik.

• Left vs Right (World) | David McCandless & Stefanie Posavec | Information Is Beautiful Lovely visualisation of what it means to be "on the left" or "on the right"
• Cell Size and Scale Beautiful visualisation showing relative scale
• Research: Readers Favour News Micropayments—But They’ll Only Pay Pennies | paidContent:UK Sure, some readers will pay for online news content via single-article micropayments, but only if the price tag is very low. That’s according to a report from analysts at Continental Research, which found that 63 percent of a 500-person survey ruled out paying for online news content. Of those that would consider getting their wallets out to pay for Times Online and the rest, three quarters agreed their upper price limit was a measly 10p.
• Technology Review: Blogs: Jason Pontin's blog: How to Save Media If media companies can't earn money, and everyone is a journalist, it follows that "amateurs" (Shirky) and "sources" (Winer) will be part of a "decentralized" media (Winer), whose stories will be distributed by "excitable 14-year-olds" (Shirky). This is all folly and ignorance. Shirky, Winer, and other evangelists know nothing about the business of media.
• Reconstruction of US Airways 1549: "We're going to be in the Hudson" - Holy Kaw!

Via Graham Linehan's blog and Techcrunch is This American Life examining our attitudes to censorship, citizen journalism and how people change when they're behind a camera.

I love watching Jon Stewart's continued picking apart of the bias in cable TV news, notably in Fox (the YouTube clips should suffice as explanation). Now, Seth talks about how Cable TV News' attitudes can be seen in any board...

Where many education authorities continue to routinely block, filter and ban social networks not just for youngsters but for teaching and management staff, new research from Gartner (via Euan Semple) reveals yet more logic behind opening up networks and encouraging...

YouTube and Channel 4 (who pay my mortgage) have signed a pioneering content deal which will make the broadcaster’s original programmes available on demand, in full and free-of-charge via YouTube in the UK. By early 2010 all of our current...

In an age where celebrity is held higher esteem by tweens and teens than ever before, Simon Cowell has emerged as an unlikely superstar: old enough to be most teens' dad, appearing to have the Midas touch where everything he...