links for 2008-09-11

BBC NEWS | Technology | UK prepares for faster broadband The people who want a government subsidy to run help their business have calculated that "The cost of stringing fibre cables to every home and business could cost £28.8bn, according to a report from the Broadband Stakeholder's Group." (tags: broadband infrastructure) Senior public sector managers …

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Quality newspaper video from the Birmingham Mail:

[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiFZtI_KLXQ] Why do I like this? Static shots well framed with thought for the lighting. Simple story, well told by one voice, someone we can relate to. No poor voice over from someone who didn’t get into the BBC because they couldn’t broadcast and equally no tacky script riddled with newspaper cliches, the sort of …

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Tooled Up For School.

[youtube]rOV6h1NNv9E[/youtube] This video appeared on the West Midlands Police Youtube site last week. It is part of the Tooled up for School campaign. As I write this has been seen a couple of hundred times.  It is a song produced for a dvd which is used in schools to discourage children from carrying weapons.  In …

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