Guardian can't go on like this @arusbridger print is over

Yesterday was the explanation. Today the event is the end of sports pages. Not that I read them very often but it also means that there is less space for the Education bit, also now without a section. There is a selection of reader Tweets and a guest space for the Digital Champion. But I can't find any sort of considered view on Gove at BETT that helps me.

Long ago there would have been a computer supplement on the Thursday during BETT and lots of space on the Tuesday after. Maybe there is more online but I'm responding to the printed product.

I don't think this will last for long. The circulation is about to drop quite sharply I would guess. I used to subscribe, now I buy it on certain days. Could the front cover on a Monday and Tuesday clearly state how many pages of media or education are inside? Otherwise it is a lottery.

I still think citizen journalism is the future of news, but probably with completely new structures.

 

Gove at BETT as a news event , the blog as process #natcur #BETT_show

Guardian in print is not that definitive about Gove at BETT (see next post) but I still think it is a news event. They republish tweets from ICT teachers who are upset by the criticism of current teaching. Probably any claim that school is boring would get some public support. But I think the Gove speech is worth looking at in detail and probably marks aq point in time after which tech is more central in UK schools. He is also right to claim that so far not much has changed in the model of teacher upfront at the blackboard.

I think universities face more change as they are largely based on a print culture around journals. Although these are now almost all digital there is still a print model. Defined dates for definitive publication. Exclusivity very important. I was recently shown as background what seemed to be a "proofready" journal article but not allowed to quote it presumably as it was waiting on publication. And this was for a show I think related to social media. BETT has more space for radio, podcasts, video and mashup. So if Gove mentions the wiki as an approved format, why not try it out?

There probably is a more recent post from Jeff Jarvis but my Google search found this frorm Buzzmachine

I think of the diagram a bit differently as the "story" in the middle can be repeated a few weeks later. Some of the rest stays the same. At the moment it is not at all clear what will happen in September. Some ICT continues. More computer science of some sort. But what is "digital literacy"? Will the schools appear as coherent with social media? I may find a better way to phrase this question some time later.

So this blog has enough links to return to from recent posts and this one

Management Theory at Work One timetable now on Scribd

I have found the timetable from 2001 and a scan has worked ok.

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The LinkedIn version of Management Theory at Work 3 starts with a text from John Burgoyne that can be seen as an update on the original keynote. Search groups for "mtw3"

@arusbridger Guardian costs 20p more, now less pages why no citizen journalism?

In today's print version we learn that more changes follow during the week. Sports section fitted into the main pages. Friday film and music maybe a bit smaller.

20p on a £ is more than most inflation. The people who subscribed after this hike may not have known about the reduced product.

Is there any alternative? Apparently there is no other business model for a newspaper.

But OhmyNews has a model for a news organisation. Mostly online with a printed weekly given away to promote it. The investment is in editing and training for citizen reporters. I wrote for the English language version while it lasted. The income for Korean electronics is reduced so I guess the income is no longer enough to run the English version as well.

I think OhmyNews was only reported twice, both in the Computer pages on a Thursday.

Why not send Alan Rusbridger to Korea for a week or so on a study tour? Trust the readership as an experiment.

Guardian Unlimited Talk was dumped and trashed. No warning, no backup, hundreds of developing stories as junk.

Meanwhile social media continues and there is a news sharing aspect. The Guardian print audience may continue handing over more money for less product for some time to come but eventually the online model for news will turn out to be different in several ways.

There may not be much time in the case of the Guardian.

Gove@BETT something happened #natcur #BETT_show

I am still trying to work out what to make of Michae' Gove's announcements at BETT. I don't often find that I agree with what he says but on this occasion at least technology is getting some attention. There was not much apparent engagement with BETT from the Department for Education in 2011. So there is some change that can be explored.

There are a couple of blogs found so far that balance my enthusiasm. 

Richard Hall sees the new policies as part of more general policies-

Government is closing down all public discourse that threatens or questions private profit maximisation or the extraction of value by corporations from our previously accrued social goods. Progress is to be realised by the privatisation and marketisation of public assets, and education is a pivotal terrain for making concrete and securing this neoliberal agenda.

But much later there is a statement on possible benefits from the situation

The crack in this revealed assault on education as a public good is Gove’s final statements connecting “an open-source curriculum” and “Disapplying [sic.] the ICT programme of study”. Gove talks here about freedom, and enabling teachers “to cover truly innovative, specialist and challenging topics.” This might be seen as an attempt by capital or corporations to enter, control and enclose what has previously been seen as open source or as the terrain previously set-out and negotiated by hacktivists. However, it does open up a space for educational technologists working with programmers and educationalists to challenge the dominant logic of how we construct and re-produce our educational worlds as commonly-defined, social goods. 

It is this space that is interesting. I have found that Gove's speech is on YouTube with a Creative Commons licence and a link to the remix options. I have tried this out and it works ok. The edit might be improved with a download but at least there is the chance of adding comments in a way that will get public attention and is not often available with a speech.

Tech Czech is concerned at the commercial nature of BETT and the low visibility of open source options. It costs a lot to fill Olympia and the lack of volunteer stands is not really surprising. 

There are links to one stand and a meeting. The Open Source village has not come back but I think the case is fairly well known and exists in the cloud.

Richard Hall links to this radio report on the Cloud through Christopher Newfield

The radio is presenting the Cloud as consumer electronics but I don't see why this prevents it from being public space. Newfield claims that "the future emerges in erratic bursts from the secret development operations at companies like Google" but the Cloud discussion may continue some other ideas that have a wider basis.

There is a debate about what the Gove announcements will mean as in what is possible in schools. I think it is worth studying this and checking out the wiki options. 

Kodak and location, clues about cameras?

Found this in the wall Street Journal through whattheythink

Very interesting about how companies change or do not.

Also this may explain something about the Zi8 and other similar cameras. Kodak gave me one at IPEX as a blogger / press registered person. It is excellent. But I can't find them in the Exeter UK shops. I don't actually need another one but try to follow what is happening. There are other brands that seem to have better distribution.

This article seems to suggest that the cameras in phones will just get better. But I find that taking a card back to a desktop works fine. The file sizes are too large for phones at the moment.