Alok Jha speaks to David Rooney who is the curator of time at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. They discuss the decimalisation of time and the pips
foe / Fiona
There are no people in foe’s collective.
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Dictionaries and Other Book-Shaped Objects: Erin McKean
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The Urban Web
From http://2008.dconstruct.org/podcast/
Steven Johnson's opening keynote from dConstruct 2008 in Brighton.
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Matt Locke - Television and New Media
The variety of new methods for self expression on the internet have led to an overlap between public and private communication and six new kinds of communication spaces have emerged. These are not along a spectrum but rather have different roles and rules governing behavior. When designing a new media service, the important thing is not which medium (TV, internet, etc) it is on. The important thing is to make the architecture of your service match the kind of social space the users expect.
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David Rooney reveals the story of Ruth Belville, the Greenwich Time Lady
Ruth Belville was a Greenwich celebrity - a woman who made her living by selling Greenwich Mean Time all over the capital, from her pocket watch, Arnold.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/podcasts/ontheline/2008/09/david-rooney-reveals-the-story.html
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