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A Visit to Beamish

by Richard Elen 2 September 2009

Some short videos from a visit to Beamish open-air museum near Sun­der­land. Includes a trip on an early steam train, oper­a­tion of a pole lathe and a Victorian-style street organ.

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Cambridge Geek Nights: Recommended

by Richard Elen 30 July 2009

Last night saw the sec­ond Cam­bridge Geek Night – an evening of net­work­ing, chat­ting and short pre­sen­ta­tions in the May­pole pub in Cambridge’s Park Street.

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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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