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Women in Technology – OpenTech 2009

by Richard Elen 10 July 2009

The last of my OpenTech 2009 videos, this covers the Women In Technology panel, with a fascinating selection of short talks and presentations, and a question and answer section.

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Video from Bletchley Park

by Richard Elen 9 July 2009

Here are two short video sequences shot on Spring Bank Holiday, 25 May 2009, at Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes, showing demonstrations of the reconstructed Tunny and Colossus machines.

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The Great Returning: Inhabiting Our MotherWorld

by Leona Graham 9 July 2009

An experiential workshop with Leona Graham and Penn Kemp, dedicated to empowering the individual to attune to our Great Mother Earth and life-sustaining, enhancing values. Participants will emerge grounded in realistic ways and means to face these critical times where the choices we make can make all the difference.

Sunday, October 4, 2009, 10:00 am–5:30 pm in London, Ontario.

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Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom at OpenTech 2009

by Richard Elen 8 July 2009

“Her Majesty’s most senior civil servant concerned with Information and Communication Technologies (or “ICTs”) [and] the Prime Minister’s data-sharing czar” addresses OpenTech 2009.

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Ben Goldacre at OpenTech 2009

by Richard Elen 7 July 2009

Ben Goldacre is the author of the best-selling “Bad Science”. Here is his somewhat impromptu talk at OpenTech 2009.

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OpenTech 2009 materials online

by Richard Elen 6 July 2009

Some of the presentations from OpenTech 2009 are becoming available online. Here’s the currently-available materials I’ve been able to find.

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Bill Thompson on the “Two Cultures Problem”

by Richard Elen 6 July 2009

Bill Thompson’s talk at OpenTech 2009 was a short version of a lecture he gave in Cambridge recently. Here is my video of the talk.

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“Radio Drama At A Distance” OpenTech presentation

by Richard Elen 5 July 2009

View the slides that accompanied my OpenTech 2009 presentation on how to record radio drama using VoIP technology.

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“Beeching-style” BBC enquiry? You must be joking

by Richard Elen 3 July 2009

ITN newscaster Alastair Stewart attacked the BBC at a CBI NW region dinner last night, suggesting that it would benefit from a “Beeching style enquiry” to assess whether its services are all really “necessary and viable”. What a bad idea.

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Radio and Britain’s digital future

by Richard Elen 1 July 2009

If we’re keeping DAB, we need to upgrade it to use modern codecs. But why not skip all that and move the “radio space” to IP networks? However, you can’t do that until there is a national broadband infrastructure that will need a lot more than copper-based 2Mb/s. So until then, maybe keeping FM is the thing to do…

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