Links for 2009-07-04 [del.icio.us]

• MiLK - The Mobile Learning Kit
  Teachers can now design everyday learning activities using mobile phones and the internet. For students this makes events such as excursions, group discussions, and questionnaires all the more engaging. Using MiLK students can create their own learning profiles, discuss topics with other students and teachers, share ideas, photos, comments, and most importantly, design their own learning events.
• Mobilise Your Imagination - CipherCities
  Build, Play and Share Games Anytime Anywhere
• Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker
  There are four strands of argument here: a technological claim (digital infrastructure is effectively Free), a psychological claim (consumers love Free), a procedural claim (Free means never having to make a judgment), and a commercial claim (the market created by the technological Free and the psychological Free can make you a lot of money). The only problem is that in the middle of laying out what he sees as the new business model of the digital age Anderson is forced to admit that one of his main case studies, YouTube, “has so far failed to make any money for Google.”

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Links for 2009-07-03 [del.icio.us]

• TrustedPlaces one step closer to profitability thanks to LocalPeople
  The sites focus on communities of between 10,000 and 50,000 users, and blend Northcliffe’s local news and traditional media assets like classifieds and job ads with TrustedPlaces’ local business directories and social media elements, to create an ad-funded community publishing platform.

Links for 2009-07-02 [del.icio.us]

• Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds | Online Journalism Blog
  The latest subscriber figures (see table below, and first published in my blog’s newspapers category) show that, apart from a couple of exceptions, it’s time for newspapers to turn off their RSS feeds - and hand over the server space, technical support and webpage real estate to an alternative, such as their Twitter accounts.
• New forms of journalism, Part 1: Let me be part of it - 38minutes
  The challenges of audience and conversation are never purely about technology, RSS or Twitter. They're nearly always about the connections your most passionate users or community members have both in the real world and online. My question for newspapers would be whether they really know who their online and realworld connectors and contributors are. If they don't, then they cannot hope to provide a space for them to find each other, to collaborate, communicate and comment on their sites and on the distributed networks of Twitter, Facebook et al.
• Online content + printing press = customised newspapers FTW
  Following the success of AudioBoo, 4iP has unveiled another investment with the potential to completely change the face of mainstream media - though this time, it’s all about print. Newspaper Club is a tool to help people make their own newspapers using online content. The site’s in private beta, with a public launch planned for late summer.

Links for 2009-07-01 [del.icio.us]

• Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history
  Nicely done, mapping out literary and historical journeys around the world in great clarity
• Tempero
  Tempero is the UK's leading interactive community management company providing 24/7 specialist moderation for message boards, blogs, commenting, social networking sites and user generated content (UGC) projects.
• This Ain’t No Disco (it’s where we work)
  If you've ever sought inspiration for your latest school, work or home build, then this is the place to come for it. This ain't no disco. It's where we work.
• Xmen relationship map
  Some seriously OCD design work here.