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"1 January - 29 November 2009. Source: BARB/Infosys, provided by ITV" - Roo Reynolds

From the comments: "could we be seeing an introduction to the 'bad guys' for season 2 as hinted at the end of season 1?", "I realised straight away it was obviously BH... but gives us another little insight... they must feature in season 2..", "well the official poster-y thing they've released, the wall on the left has a 'censsa' graffiti tag on it at the bottom, so i'd say it'll be featured!", "I'm thrilled to have another of my shows go with this kind of background work especially with BH as not only is the show awesome, but I know all you guys involved in this kinda stuff will do it well and make it fun Buzzed beyond words" - Roo Reynolds

"...The idea that it's in any position to shed light on the democratisation of communication and opinion, or on the dissemination of knowledge, is fanciful..." - Roo Reynolds

"The title itself is not even fixed yet and they are currently debating it on the site.The whole idea is conceived as an ongoing, interactive project of which the programmes will be a tip of the iceberg or even the icing on the cake. It is in fact an ‘open source’ documentary ... This could herald a whole new way of looking at copyright etc of digitally prepared and collaborated materials. Well done BBC ! I do hope this will be a ‘learning’ for other groups (and governments). It really is a massive leap in the right direction" - Roo Reynolds

I made a thing. A single-serving site that tells you what's on BBC Radio 4 right now. (See more of this kind of thing at http://kottke.org/08...) - Roo Reynolds

"we at EFF are worried that today's changes will lead to Facebook users publishing to the world much more information about themselves than they ever intended" - Roo Reynolds

"Masters of the video mash-up, Cassetteboy and Barry Pilling, have joined the Digital Revolution team to make mirth and entertainment with the Digital Revolution downloadable content, and hopefully provide some inspiration of ways in which you can use our content for the Digital Revolution Short Film Competition." - Roo Reynolds

"Customize your Twitter page In 3 simple steps" Very nice pattern + palette picker. Via Kim. - Roo Reynolds

my real point is this: interactive storytelling -- even when it's not meant to be a game -- still needs a game designer. It needs someone who will think about what the reader/player is supposed to do, and what that action means, and how it contributes to the story being told. - Roo Reynolds

This is a really easy way to combine multiple USB input devices on a Mac "thanks to your Mac’s Aggregate Audio feature, you can maximize your input track count by recording through several such devices simultaneously" - Roo Reynolds

"Last weekend I was looking for ways to extract Twitter search data in a structured, easily manageable format. ... Before too long I’d cracked my problem – I was able to generate nicely ordered spreadsheets of real-time URL search results with next to no effort. In this post I’m going to explain how you can do it too. ... The instructions below will help you create a Google Spreadsheet that pulls in and displays the time, username and text of all tweets containing links to a specified page. Because it uses Backtweets, these tweets will be retrieved even if they used shortened URLs from services like bit.ly or tinyurl." - Roo Reynolds

"Hi. Does anyone know if it's possible to use a background that would essentially turn my computer monitor into a mirror? Scanning a mirror doesn't work." - Roo Reynolds

"We’ll put all this up on the web soon ... The poll shows that while 57 per cent of Britons think greater police powers to tackle terrorism are more important than protecting civil liberties, less than half of Twitter users agree. Fifty-six per cent of the public agree that “the greatest victims of discrimination in Britain these days are often ordinary white men,” compared to only 45 per cent of Twitter users." - Roo Reynolds

"Britain's 5.5 million Twitter users are younger than average members of the public, slightly more likely to vote Labour, and distinctly more liberal, according to a survey published today. They are also more likely to live in London, less likely to live in the north of England, and marginally more likely to belong to a lower social class. ... Most users find Twitter either 'very worthwhile' or 'mildly useful'. But 39% of all respondents said that it 'dumbs down' the way people communicate and 76% of them said they had no interest in using it themselves. [See also http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/... who commissioned the poll] - Roo Reynolds

"We believe people discover great things through their friends" - Roo Reynolds

Channelography creates statistics about BBC Programmes by reading and analysing the captions. - Roo Reynolds

"My mild-mannered husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead-of-night musings, I thought it only fair to share them with the world" "...Don't forget to dry-clean the baby..." - Roo Reynolds

"Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time only, Sunday-edition-sized newspaper—the San Francisco Panorama. It'll have news and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides) and a magazine and a weekend guide, and will basically be an attempt to demonstrate all the great things print journalism can (still) do..." Yours as a PDF for $16. The shoreline between online and newsprint is a very interesting place at the moment. Wouldn't it be cool if McSweeney's to do a deal with newspaperclub.co.uk for UK distribution? - Roo Reynolds

"... It’s now possible for columnists and companies to hear what people are saying about them. That’s unnerving for columnists, not least because their opinions are now frequently challenged by people who know more than they do. Instead of responding like adults – correcting when they’ve made a mistake, engaging when someone raises a sensible point and defending themselves from false accusations – they are whining like children and dismissing technologies that they don’t understand. It’s not the complaints culture on Twitter that annoys me, it’s the complaints culture among columnists that is getting tiresome." - Roo Reynolds

"A mob fighting a good cause is still a mob. To fight back, you need to remember that although the internet age is hugely expanding the number of complaints, the old rules still apply. ... if someone says that you must think what they think, you ignore them." - Roo Reynolds

Quite lovely - Roo Reynolds

"Being NOTES and SLIDES on a talk given at PLAYFUL 09, concerning CHARLES BABBAGE, HEATH ROBINSON, MENACE and MAGE" - Roo Reynolds

"If you want to hear me banging on about my favourite numbers and why you should never trust an even number or let 5 show off, then have a listen from about 3 minutes in to Episode 2 of shiftrunstop. Inevitably I also bang on about Yiddish and Jews…" - Roo Reynolds

"I appear at just over 40 minutes into these two podcasts discussing the likes of Respect The Mojo Squirting Skulls (26p/packet, Tesco) and Haribo Super Sour Monsters" - Roo Reynolds

"I still don’t really know what a podcast is. Or, like, why it is. But here I am again, collaborating on a thing called Shift Run Stop. ..." - Roo Reynolds

Everyone in that room was super-smart and many of the presentations were genuinely inspiring. I LOVED Russell Davies’s thoughts on playing-as-pretending. What else is play if not pretending? And he’s right, we forget this. - Roo Reynolds

"For the next six months I will be working part-time as Head of Partnership Development for the BBC Archive Project" - Roo Reynolds

"I’m at Playful ‘09 today. I’m not going to be taking verbatim notes, as is my usual habit, but instead just jotting down a few random notes." - Roo Reynolds

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