Charlie Tims
Associate
Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.
- BE A PODCAST During November we asked subscribers to the Demos update if they would like to share an idea in a Demos podcast. Basically the deal is that you talk to us, and we’ll edit it down and give it back in five easily digestible minutes. Here's the first batch... continue reading on 29th January 2007 in Demos Podcasts
- Networked Sweatshops Ugh. Shudder. Turk: Amazon’s service for HITs.“HIT stands for Human Intelligence Task. These are tasks that people are willing to pay you to complete. For example a HIT might ask: "Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?" Typically these tasks are extraordinarily difficult for computers, but simple for humans to answer.”The mighty Big Shiny Thing prophesise that the emergence of this, combined wih the developing world’s endless supply of minds & $100... continue reading on 22nd January 2007
- Things that go crump in the the night I woke up at 2.30am last night and caught this on the World Service. It's an Assignment dispatch from Alistair Leithead on the front line in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. It recounts his chilling front-line experiences of 9 days fighting with the Royal Marines. At points you can literally hear the bullets whizzing past the microphone. The soldiers, the conditions they're in and the reasons they give for fighting are arrestingly real, but above all this is a testament to heroic journalism.... continue reading on 19th January 2007
- Nick Clarke RIP Nick Clarke, presenter of Radio 4's World at One has lost his battle with cancer. Alongside the lunchtime edition of Neighbours and getting muddy in the garden, the World at One was the backdrop to my school holidays. My awareness that there was more to the world than school and my sisters was almost exclusively piped through the voice of Nick Clarke during his "40 minutes of news and comment" on my Mum's Roberts radio. While many of his contemporaries pandered to yah-boo journalism,... continue reading on 23rd November 2006 Comments (2)
- Get Flocked! Just a quick heads-up for the mighty flock . Billed as the "social web browser", it has all the regular firefox features plus - the ability to stream photos from your friend's flickr pages, directly through the top of the page- a photo and blog uploader that enables you to upload photos and entries directly from your browser- a cut and paste bar at the bottom of the page for interesting tit bits you might find- there's also a very handy rss feed thing, which I haven't quite got the... continue reading on 31st October 2006 in Demos Website
- (how to) go down like london. The London Olympics in 2012 will be the first “post-exotic” games. The Beijing games the summer after next will mark the end of a 20 year run of host cities that used the games as a global launch-pad to announce themselves to the world. Our perceptions of Seoul 88, Barcelona 92, Atlanta 96, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 are all built on images and associations created during their Olympiad’s. For the majority of the 4.5 billion people watching London’s Olympics, the... continue reading on 23rd October 2006 in Demos Projects on the 2012 London Olympics
- Podcast 5: Science and Society And so to the fifth Demos podcast. It’s the annual BA Festival of Science this week – one of the UK’s biggest annual get-togethers of the science community where Demos is launching a new project “ScienceHorizons” about public engagement in the future of science. With this in mind Demos Podcast 5 features Professor Kathy Sykes, Collier Professor of Public Engagement in Science and Engineering at Bristol University in conversation with Jack Stilgoe, who is a Senior... continue reading on 6th September 2006 in Demos Podcasts
- giddy for Giddy "Britain is a sophisticated 21st-century society, but we still make do with a crude 19th-century system of limited and indirect democracy." This is Saira Khan. Apparently she was in a TV programme called The Apprentice. This was a sort of staged masochism where contestents tried to make money in "real life situations" before being ritually humiliated Alan Sugar. In anycase the experience doesn't seem to have broken Saira. She has an article in The Times today... continue reading on 4th September 2006
- No bank holiday north of the border, but there was a Big Dream. It's The Big Dream tomorrow, which is the last public event in the Glasgow 2020 project. We have taken over a series of rooms in The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, in the name of exciting public interest in thinking about and deliberating the future of Glasgow. There are a load of old photos here, and explanations of a few of the things that we're doing in each of the spaces. If Glasgow 2020 has a core phillosophy a the moment, it's that city's are the stories they tell about... continue reading on 29th August 2006 in Glasgow 2020
- Not Quite Proving you can't keep a good man down, a lucid Tom Bentley bounced back after being ejected from the Demosphere last week, by showing up on the Today program this morning to talk about cross-dressing politics with David Aaronovitch. You can listen again here. It's the 8.55 slot you want to listen to. continue reading on 31st July 2006