Extract Meta Data. Carolinebeavon : Looks like I haven't used Sticky... Caroline @ Baker Building. Datamud. Behind The Numbers: Mapping the bedroom tax in Birmingham. How the bedroom tax will affect housing benefit claimants in Birmingham by Abbey Hartley, Enya Quin-Jarvis and Daniel Jones On April 1 the controversial 'bedroom tax' comes into effect, charging recipients of housing benefit based on the numbers of bedrooms they have. Behind The Numbers has been crunching the data on how Birmingham residents will be affected. With 10,000 council tenants estimated to be affected in Birmingham and a further 5,000 tenants from registered landlords, the West Midlands will make up almost one in ten of Great Britain’s affected claimants.
When account carers, children and spouses are included, it is estimated that around 60,000 people will be affected in total. According to the Department for Work and Pensions' impact assessment, two-thirds of those have disabilities. It also says that those affected will lose an average of £14 a week. Housing association tenants are expected to lose £16 a week on average. Foster carers From Ladywood to Sutton Coldfield Is there room? Is rock dead? Support blog.
Assignment2. Live music: ticket buying Survey. The Psychology of Cyberspace - Home Page/Table of Contents. This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. I think of it as evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call "the psychology of cyberspace" - or simply "cyberpsychology. " Revised and expanded over time, this hypertext book originally was created in January of 1996. My most recent work focuses on a specific area of cyberpsychology that I call photographic psychology: the study of how people create, share, and react to images in the age of digital technology and cyberspace.
I have devoted a separate online book to that topic. Here, in The Psychology of Cyberspace, I offer what I consider to be my comprehensive classic text on the wider topic of human experiences in the online world. In order to make these readings accessible to as many people as possible, I have written them in a style that is not overly abstract or technical.
Breaking Waves: Birmingham Snow. Enterpreneurship. Breaking Waves A Google Waves Experiment. Link to Breaking Waves: Birmingham Snow Wave Google Wave was previewed to Google employees on May 27th 2009. Described as a “personal communication and collaboration tool” it was gradually rolled out from September 2009 via invitation. A combination of instant messenger and email, users could send messages to their contacts in a chain (similar to Google Mail) but then move back UP the chain, and insert text, images, video etc to add to the conversation. The hype surrounding Google Wave had been immense, yet my initial experiences of it were less than favourable. I found the site restrictive, hard to navigate and slow. However, I was also clear to me that a tool that allows multiple people to edit one document and add content had some potential.
In Gatewatching (2009) Axel Bruns described a new sphere of news that was the “publicizing <…> of whatever relevant content is available anywhere on the Web (and beyond)” (Alex Bruns “Gatewatching” 2009 p 2)