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Queen's Speech To Exclude Arts Web Site Scheme
News A £150m scheme to put the cream of Britain's arts online is unlikely to be included within the Queen's speech on Wednesday, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) admitted today. The Culture Online venture proposed by former culture...
[June 19, 2001, 15:29]
Culture Secretary Unveils 'Channel 4 Of The Net'
News Labour's Chris Smith announced a new government Web site, Culture Online, at the party conference in Brighton Thursday. What makes Culture Online unique and important is that it is not a passive Web site propelling static images into a vacuum.
[September 28, 2000, 16:12]
Government Ignores Royalty Rights For Online Artists
News The UK government plans to place the cream of Britain's arts on an interactive Web site, Culture Online, have failed to address the royalty rights of artists who would be involved. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed that it...
[January 19, 2001, 11:23]
Wikipedia Vows To Improve Quality
News Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has set the Wikimedia Foundation's sights on improving the quality of the online encyclopedia and expanding "free culture" to new projects and countries. I see a whole world of possibilities, like in the world of...
[August 7, 2006, 9:20]
Web's Oldest Magazines Shut Down
News Automatic also published two newer sites: Plastic, a discussion board dissecting the day's media, and Altculture, an "online encyclopaedia of contemporary culture" focussing on the offbeat. Feed aimed to be a thoughtful journal tackling big ideas...
[June 11, 2001, 16:56]
Is MP3 Dying Already?
News Responding to the challenge that MP3 already has a strong culture around it, Cuban quipped, "Disco also used to have a strong culture. That, at least, was the pronouncement of Mark Cuban, president of online multimedia aggregation site Broadcast...
[March 15, 1999, 16:43]
Government 'must Make Leap To Broadband'
News Giving evidence to the select committee of culture, media and sport on Tuesday, Telewest chief executive Adam Singer explained that many existing government services could be made appealing to users of high-speed Internet products.
[March 1, 2002, 6:31]
A Year Ago: Is MP3 Dying Already?
News Responding to the challenge that MP3 already has a strong culture around it, Cuban quipped, "Disco also used to have a strong culture. That, at least, was the pronouncement of Mark Cuban, president of online multimedia aggregation site Broadcast...
[March 14, 2000, 6:36]
Hot Links, Cool Trends On The Web
News If you read the listings, you're hip to pop culture," said Lycos Top 50 author Aaron Schatz, who claims that online search terms reveal fashions and fads long before they're apparent in the offline world.
[December 27, 2002, 9:26]
Internet Music - In The Line Of Fire
News The current culture of the Internet could be described as a culture of infringement," said Tom Silverman, CEO of Tommy Boy Records, in remarks submitted to the US House of Representative's Small Business Committee on Wednesday.
[May 26, 2000, 8:49]
'Smiley' Turns 25
News Since then emoticons have become an important part of online social culture, making it easy to communicate emotions quickly. Emoticons — the smiley faces that frequently punctuate emails and instant messages — are 25 years old on Wednesday.
[September 19, 2007, 14:50]
UofC Educators Defend Success Of Online Learning Criticism By National Teaching Association Called Unfounded
White Papers The U of C already offers, or soon will, online courses in Continuing Education and the degree-granting faculties of social work, medicine, education, communications and culture. The University of Calgary's online learning program is growing...
[July 29, 2004, 0:00]
Informal Learning In An Online Community Of Practice
White Papers Through active participation and peripheral "lurking," newcomers were oriented into the skills and culture of the practice, and experienced practitioners gained new insights into their own professional identities and the meaning of their work.
[April 16, 2005, 0:00]
Webcast: Innovating Within A Retail Industry Disrupted By The Web
White Papers CIO of Virgin Entertainment Group, Robert Fort says that risk-taking and innovation are at the heart of his company's culture. Fort is responsible for the switch from analog CD listening stations to digital kiosks in Virgin Megastores where...
[October 25, 2006, 0:00]
Enterprise E-Learning System
White Papers The number and frequency of acquisitions has created a constant need to educate new employees about the company, as well as to articulate and reinforce corporate culture. The new online learning environment reflects and reinforces the subject matter.
[July 23, 2004, 0:00]
Polk Relies On Salesforce.com For Critical Sales And Customer Insight
White Papers The lack of a company standard for tracking customer contact data and account history hampered Polk's efforts to monitor the pipeline, identify and correct quality issues, and essentially revolutionize its culture with improved business processes...
[July 20, 2006, 0:00]
Oracle Case Study: Consorcio Financiero
White Papers In 2000, after more than 80 years as a leader in Chile's financial industry, Consorcio Financiero set out to transform its company culture. The company planned to make major changes to its organizational culture.
[March 7, 2006, 23:00]
Consorcio Financiero Invests In A Client-Centric Strategy With PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM
White Papers In 2000, after more than 80 years as a leader in Chile's financial industry, Consorcio Financiero set out to transform its company culture. Consorcio Financiero planned to make major changes to its organizational culture.
[April 8, 2005, 0:00]
UBS Reduces An Expected 36-Hour Batch Window To Less Than One Hour Using The DB2 Products In The SmartDBA Family
White Papers UBS is one of the world's leading financial firms, combining financial strength with a reputation for innovation and a global culture that embraces change. As a result, UBS reduced an anticipated 36-hour outage to less than one hour for a critical...
[August 20, 2007, 0:00]
Combining Place, Time, And Topic: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
White Papers The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative was formed to encourage scholarly communication and the sharing of data among researchers who emphasize the relationships between place, time, and topic in the study of culture and history.
[April 14, 2005, 0:00]
