Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Thursday, March 08, 2018

Chatting with a Chat Bot. BBC Labs Experiments

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An interesting article from Nieman Labs which takes a look at how the BBC are experimenting with Chatbots.  Not just how they an enage but a...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 32): Team GB, Big Data on Campus, Libraries and eBooks, Amazon Daily Delivery + More

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First the important stuff:  TEAM GB ! From Andy Murray's gold to the men's lightweight four landing a dramatic silver, here are Br...
Monday, June 25, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 26): AAUP Meeting, Summer Reading Lists, Magazines, The Guardian's Future +More

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Last week the Association of American University Presses held their annual conference in Chicago, (where I attended and made two presentati...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 23): Amazon, Achilles, Ulysses +More

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In a heavily retweeted article, The Nation takes a look at The Amazon Effect .  In the process, the author seems to rely a lot on what J...
Monday, April 16, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 16): Texas Custom, Apps For Education, William Boyd, Official Chinese Authors, + More

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Tarrant county (Texas) attempts to save students money on textbooks runs into faculty resistance ( IHEd ): The push for cheaper textbooks ...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No14): Frontline Video on NI Hacking, Blackboard Thinking, Taking the SAT (again), Book Awards + more

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Frontline on PBS has spent an hour looking at how the Murdoch/News International phone hacking scandal has evolved from the start.  As you w...
Monday, March 26, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 13): Pew Reports: News Isn't Dead Yet, Slow Reading, Odd Titles + More

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The Pew Research Center published their annual State of Media report this week and the research suggests some interesting trends are develop...
Monday, March 05, 2012

MediaWeek (Vol 5, No 10): The Monkees, PayPal, Self-Publishing, Jeff Bezos + More

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I was never that aware of The Monkees but the passing of Davy Jones generated a lot of reminiscing.  Mrs. PND recalls the time her Dad broug...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

MediaWeek (Vol 3, No 26): OCLC, AAUP Conference, Intellectual Property Enforcement, Harold Robbins, Book Bloggers

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OCLC announced that a revised record use policy will be going into effect on August 1st ( LJ ): After more than a year and a half of prop...