BBC Olympic audience interacting by SMS

clock August 12, 2008 15:18 by author Jonathan
The BBC's Bejing Olympics coverage has been embracing new technologies including SMS. The Live Olympics page is not only embedding the BBC's iPlayer allowing you to watch the sport of your choice but there is a Live Text Commentary alongside it. Leveraging the latest Web 2.0 technologies, ... [More]

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Can texting boost literacy?

clock June 2, 2008 18:32 by author Julian
I received a text message the other day from my younger cousin which took me about ten minutes to understand. Call me old fashioned, but what’s wrong with writing words out fully? Surely by shortening words and creating abbreviated words in texts we are affecting our written and grammatical ... [More]

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Sleep texting through the night

clock May 23, 2008 15:55 by author Julian
Move over sleepwalking. It seems that ‘sleep-texting’ is something that’s becoming increasingly common these days. Apparently mobile phone users have been reported to have text friends and family while they were sleeping, and then waking in the morning, completely unaware of thei... [More]

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