* just in teractive: GameLayers from PMOG to Dictator Wars – Lessons learned from PMOG’s rise and fall * Social by Social – “A practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact”. Buy the book for a tenner and/or download the PDF for free * BBC – The Knowledge Exchange Blog: ugc@

* The Real Deal : alex hillman writes here – In Philadelphia there’s a tension between the actions of the (necessarily bootstrapped) grassroots community and what Alex calls “an under-used and over-produced attempt at being a regional resource for a good cause”. A story which I imagine is repeated the world over

Yesterday, I went to an event at the ICE in Coventry – an introduction to an innovation labs thing called F2 Future Forum. In the afternoon we were asked to think of challenges that we’d like to innovate around. We were then told that we would vote on the ones

Last night I went along to the launch of the new Academy. Editors played and were good. Thanks to ace photographer Steve Gerrard for the invite. His photos will be up on Birmingham Live soon-ish and will probably be better than the one above. (Update – The Editors on Birmingham Live.

* Blogging for Artists – An informal talk given to Shropshire Arts Network on September 8th 2009 by Pete Ashton * Culture Wars | About Culture Wars – Culture Wars is the online review of the Institute of Ideas in London. We cover books, films, theatre, art and talk events, with a view to understanding

Last weekend was given over to Moseley Folk. A couple of days in the company of Birmingham’s boho middle-class, where children running riot is, weirdly, actually quite a good thing. As with last year, I only caught the headliner on Friday night – that being Saint Etienne. No, not very

* Smokescreen § Homepage – “How do we get teens to think about online privacy, trust, and identity? TV, films and books haven’t worked – but a game that simulates the internet, with a gripping drama and fast-paced missions definitely could”. “Smokescreen is a cutting-edge game about life online, on a new social

I like Delicious a lot. It’s like the Internet’s version of a gated community, but one that’s open to any content as long as it meets some fairly simple criteria – it must be good enough for someone to want to bother bookmarking it with Delicious. It’s

Speaking at TED is a big deal being, as it is, a conference that offers ‘knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers’. Browsing the site just now, I was a hugely surprised to see my old neighbour, Willard Wigan, now numbers among TED’s speakers. Let’s

* journalisted.com – “Journalisted is an independent, non-profit site run by the Media Standards Trust to help the public navigate the news”. So if you want to see all the articles printed by any particular journalist then you can * Elatable : Bradley Horowitz: Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers – Content production pyramid – a breakdown