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The Grace, NYC - Ewan McIntosh

Old media not realising the awards audience can tweet out, too: Pssst. We know who won the Scottish BAFTAs and will be announcing at 8.30 exactly. - Ewan McIntosh

@thelistmagazine You mean what @ewanmcintosh and others have been tweeting all night? Zzzzzzz - Ewan McIntosh

# Advanced TD-9 module with expressive new sounds, real-audio songs and patterns # Comfortable mesh-head tom and snare pads with rim triggering # 3-way triggering for ride cymbal # Scope function with graphical LCD display # USB host for audio-file (.WAV) playback # Special cable for easy pad connections # Sturdy drum rack (MDS-9) with newly designed ball-clamps for the snare and cymbal arms and a new hi-hat mount for maximum flexibility - Ewan McIntosh

Clever mock YouTube page ad for renewable energy - Ewan McIntosh

As our Creative Industries Technology Strategy outlines, innovation is key to developing new business models for the digital future. In this live session we explore the key issues with our panel of experts and contribute to the debate. - Ewan McIntosh

The internet is obviously an increasingly powerful influence. But where television still just about unites, the web fragments. When social media does manage to deliver a collective experience, it’s remarkable how often it revolves around tv content. Television still has greater power than any other creative medium to influence public attitudes. And yet it is increasingly characterised by the lack of places in which mainstream audiences can engage with provocative, non-conformist ideas. If our most universal and influential medium fails to challenge and provoke, if a fear of offending the audience begins to proscribe creative freedoms, then I believe the danger to our broader cultural life is clear. Our society will become less democratic. Less enlightened. Ultimately, less free. - Ewan McIntosh

a project involving 14 colleges in Denmark that are piloting a new system of exams where students are allowed full access to the internet during their final exams. According to the article, in the exam, students can access any site they like, even Facebook, but they cannot message each other or email anyone outside the classroom. The Swedish government are quoted as saying, “if the internet is so much a part of daily life, it should be included in the classroom and in examinations.” - Ewan McIntosh

Keynote Tweet is a free, simple to use and open source script that provides the capacity to participate in the backchannel by combining Twitter with Apple Keynote. All you have to do is add text wrapped in [twitter] and [/twitter] tags in the presenter notes section of a slide. When that slide comes up in the presentation the script grabs that text and sends it to Twitter on your behalf. Out of the box it will ask you if you want to add any #hashtags or @mentions to all the tweets (e.g. for a conference #hashtag), and will watch your presenter notes for [twitter]twitter this[/twitter], ignoring the rest of your notes, while in presentation mode only. - Ewan McIntosh

Browse a timeline of war and conflict around the world - Ewan McIntosh

Canada does eduBuzz - Ewan McIntosh

While this confidence and self esteem can be and should be established offline even more so that online, we do a huge disservice to our students when in efforts to protect them we inadvertently rob them of the opportunity to be recognized. - Ewan McIntosh

Funny: Just because something is new, doesn’t mean it’s better. - Ewan McIntosh

This Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey finds that Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People’s use of the mobile phone and the internet is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks. And, when we examine people’s full personal network – their strong and weak ties – internet use in general and use of social networking services such as Facebook in particular are associated with more diverse social networks. - Ewan McIntosh

The Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coast on the Italian Riviera. It is in the Liguria region of Italy, to the west of the city of La Spezia. "The Five Lands" comprises five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. - Ewan McIntosh

A “culture of compliance” in British television is in danger of making programmes bland, according to the head of Channel 4. - Ewan McIntosh

Welcome to CrimeMapper. This website provides you with information on crime and antisocial behaviour in your neighbourhood, wherever you live in England or Wales. It also enables you to access and compare the latest information on a range of crime types with other neighbourhoods. You will also be able to access the details of your local neighbourhood policing team, policing priorities and information on the policing pledge. - Ewan McIntosh

Ooh, Central Station, a new European art, design, and film community http://www.thisiscentralsta... - Ewan McIntosh

Lovely example of fun copy, and making the quite rare seem even more so: *Plus $10 Shipping and Handling. Domestic shipping by UPS ground. International shipping by US post. Please allow 6 weeks for delivery if you're quite far away. One per customer, we'll take this page down when all the boxes are sold out. Your mileage may vary, books are in English, careful of sharp edges, not for children under three years old, do not expose to open flame or read while driving. Void where prohibited (including some stuck corporations). Thanks for all the fish and please support your local bookstore this holiday season. - Ewan McIntosh

A liquidation preference if you are not aware is the means by which the order of payback is determined at the point of a liquidity event (ie when folks might get their money like going public, or selling the business etc). Now naively you might think that if a VC bought 30% of the company then, when the company sells, they should get 30% of the money. Well, maybe. Let’s use an example. If the VC invested 300,000 for 30% then the value of the company just prior to his investment was £700,000 (”the pre-money value”) and it was worth £1,000,000 (”the post-money”) just after the investment. Thus £300,000 neatly equals 30%. But let’s say that for unknown reasons the company is sold for £500,000. Then the VC get 30% of 500,000 or £150,000. The founder who hasn’t put in any money walks away £350,000 richer and the VC walks away £150,000 poorer. Not good. - Ewan McIntosh

The Swedish government is following in the footsteps of the Finns (well almost), as their IT-ministry is now promising that 90 percent of all Swedish homes will have access to a 100 mbit/s broadband connection before 2020. - Ewan McIntosh

Short article and interesting podcast insight into how Pixar make great ideas become nine hits in a row: [excerpt]: Ed and his fellow executives give directors tremendous authority. At other studios, corporate executives micromanage by keeping tight control over production budgets and inserting themselves into creative decisions. Not at Pixar. Senior management sets budgetary and timeline boundaries for a production and then leave the director and his team alone. - Ewan McIntosh

Values before profit, and the profit follows - Ewan McIntosh

The misguided application of three financial-analysis tools as an accomplice in the conspiracy against successful innovation. We allege crimes against these suspects: • The use of discounted cash flow (DCF) and net present value (NPV) to evaluate investment opportunities causes managers to underestimate the real returns and benefits of proceeding with investments in innovation. • The way that fixed and sunk costs are considered when evaluating future investments confers an unfair advantage on challengers and shackles incumbent firms that attempt to respond to an attack. • The emphasis on earnings per share as the primary driver of share price and hence of shareholder value creation, diverts resources away from investments whose payoff lies beyond the immediate horizon. These are not bad tools and concepts, we hasten to add. But the way they are commonly wielded in evaluating investments creates a systematic bias against innovation. - Ewan McIntosh

Canvas, however, is touted as a platform, or a standard, allowing other broadcasters to jump on board. This may be the key difference. In simpler terms, where Kangaroo acted as a shop with selected products, Canvas will represent a shopping centre, with other outlets able to get involved. - Ewan McIntosh

Various worldwide competitors to the settop box Canvas chip - Ewan McIntosh

While pundits posit a future of 3D TV and mood-based programme selection, Duncan points out that what technology is capable of and what consumers actually want to do are two very separate things. He thinks people will continue to watch an average of 25 hours of TV a week, but it will be through a mixture of broadband-enabled TVs and PCs. Interestingly, he says the more “tecchy people” who use VOD service regularly, watch even more TV than the average person – so the myth of online killing TV really could be a myth. - Ewan McIntosh

2002: The question is, should we uncritically encourage students to participate in a global knowledge economy where at best a small minority only of the world’s population has access to the Internet? - Ewan McIntosh

Haven’t we all been wondering at one point in our lives how to balance your pig-in-a-blanket with your Dom Perignon? Fortunately, Fred&Friends has got the answer – charming little plates with rings that fit right on your finger. Now you can balance your glass and your hors d’ouevres, and look positively in control the whole time. Genius! One size fits most, ten reusable plates per handy peggable pack. - Ewan McIntosh