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OPINION: Will censoring the Internet stop child exploitation?
NOTE: I got to put my thoughts to John Carr directly when I was invited to debate the issues raised on the JVS Show on BBC Three Counties radio on Monday morning. Here is the link to listen again. We...
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OPINION: Social sellout; is cash for tweets a scandal?
I’m taking the unusual step of posting this article as both a review and a feature, as I have to confess it has sparked a bit of an internal conflict. The catalyst was a site called Adly, which drifted...
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OPINION: Social by Design
Social media can be bit of a time-sink in your personal life but with more than 60% of adults now using it businesses have to climb aboard the social band-wagon or else get left in the trail dust of...
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OPINION: PRISM (as I see it) and some privacy tools
“You have zero privacy anyway, get over it.” So said Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems about privacy in the digital age back in 1999. At the time his comment caused outrage and indignation. I...
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OPINION: Healthy body, healthy business
There will soon be 1.4 billion smartphones in the world. They keep us connected and informed, provide a link to family and friends, tell us where we are and where we need to be. And now thanks to a...
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OPINION: Tips and tricks for the anti-social-networker
Some people are born naturals when it comes to networking. For others it’s a chore fraught with the constant risk of making a social faux pas like forgetting someone’s name (or worse still forgetting...
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Connecting the World » IAI TV
Will technology provide the pathway to a state of global equality? Kate Russell | Technology expert, presenter, author. This interview was published on Connecting the World » IAI T Rarely is...
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HOW TO: Pitch for editorial coverage
The Maclise portrait-gallery of “illustrious literary characters” Over the 10+ years that I’ve been reviewing web and app content for BBC Click, I have been approached by a lot of rookie developers...
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Mobile China
by Kate Russell – 14 Feb 2014 There are big cultural differences in how the world’s two largest consumers of mobile technology – China and the US – make mobile a part of their lives. In this...
View ArticleStudents – would you crowd-fund to pay for your degree? | Metro News
Having just read the following article on Metro.co.uk I felt I had to comment and rebuke some of the obtuse and inflammatory statements made by the poster, who evidently has no clue what they are...
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OPINION: “I have absolute confidence we’ll still be playing @EliteDangerous a...
It’s amazing the power of a quote, especially when it’s attached to a vaguely familiar name from the media and expresses a sentiment you wouldn’t normally expect to hear from that person. It’s one of...
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Serious Gaming: A brief history of the video games industry (part 2)
In part 1 of this two-part feature we looked at the birth of the gaming industry, which was a crazy ride over four decades of rapid progress. Considering the inexorable spread of mobile across the...
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OPINION: Why don’t more girls choose to study STEM?
It is a sad fact of life today that while women make up around 46% of the UK workforce, they are extremely poorly represented in the STEM professions – in other words science, technology, engineering...
View ArticleOPINION: TEDx talk on Crowdfunding creativity
Last year I was invited to speak at TEDx in Salford, where I delivered my thoughts on how crowd funding could shape the future of the creative industries. I hope you enjoy it.
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FIRST PLAY: Star Citizen space sim
This weekend I streamed my first play of the hugely popular and in some quarters controversial space simulation game, Star Citizen. Still in pre-release testing it’s not so much a game as a tech-demo...
View ArticleOPINION: Fake news IS fake news
Last weekend I was invited to speak at The Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai, where I sat on a panel titled ‘How students and educators can combat fake news’. As a reporter writing about...
View ArticleWhen Life Gives You Lemons
What does digital transformation look like, post COVID-19? Here’s my take in a talk I prepared for my first ‘virtual conference’ Simulation World.
View ArticleScreen Engagement for Online Lessons
One of the goals I had for starting FerretTubeTV was to make educational content about technology and the Internet, using the ferrets as a way to engage children of all ages. Learning at home during...
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