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		<title>Posterous blog migrating to Tumblr. WordPress blog staying right here</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>3 years of blogging?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems I&#8217;ve been doing this for three years now. I started this blog off as a test to see what video streaming tech I could get to work through common SM platforms. It turned into a place for organising and finding links between the disparate bits of work I do, and a repository of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benshirley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12407111&#038;post=933&#038;subd=benshirley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dolby Atmos &#8211; a visit to Dolby&#8217;s new screening room in Soho</title>
		<link>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/dolby-atmos-a-visit-to-dolbys-new-screening-room-in-soho/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had an opportunity to visit Dolby Labs new London home in Soho Square, the trip was mainly to visit one of our students from one of our audio engineering programmes at Salford University who is on placement there for 12 months. The screening room here is impressive in itself &#8211; a small cinema [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benshirley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12407111&#038;post=888&#038;subd=benshirley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK Govt report: Not using social media &#8220;could appear unusual or even suspicious&#8221; in 10 years</title>
		<link>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/uk-govt-report-not-using-social-media-could-appear-unusual-or-even-suspicious-in-10-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My eye was just drawn to a couple of pieces about the UK government report that was published today. The document, entitled Future Identities, Changing Identities in the UK: The next 10 Years is covered in an article in The Telegraph here whose headline, Rise of social networks in Britain &#8216;risks fuelling social unrest&#8217; will certainly help fuel its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benshirley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12407111&#038;post=879&#038;subd=benshirley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update ‹ Audio Flipboard Anyone?</title>
		<link>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/update-audio-flipboard-anyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I posted that I&#8217;d love to see an audio equivalent to Flipboard, the wonderful social media agglomerator that presents your connected networks in magazine format. The audio version would collate your audio based networks and content (Audioboo, Soundcloud, Last.FM etc) and present it as an interactive personalised radio programme. Well one of my students [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benshirley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12407111&#038;post=872&#038;subd=benshirley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Publishing Rant follow up</title>
		<link>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/academic-publishing-rant-follow-up/</link>
		<comments>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/academic-publishing-rant-follow-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted a blog entry that started off as a response to, and supportive of @melissaterras article on using social media to promote research. The post turned into a bit of a rant &#8211; sorry! At least this time it is clearly labelled I really liked the way Melissa had not only promoted her work, but made it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benshirley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12407111&#038;post=853&#038;subd=benshirley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comment: is blogging or tweeting about research papers worth it?</title>
		<link>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/comment-is-blogging-or-tweeting-about-research-papers-worth-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benshirley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read @melissaterras great article here on her experiences using social media to promote her research papers. Unsurprisingly the papers she blogged about and tweeted were downloaded more, the only surprise was how much more. I am curious how much of this is because they were available for free download rather than being behind a paywall though. Would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benshirley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12407111&#038;post=838&#038;subd=benshirley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Through the Looking Glass: return to the ETC</title>
		<link>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/through-the-looking-glass-return-to-the-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benshirley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MediaCityUK]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[University of Salford]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years I have written a little about my previous visits to the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University here and here, a few things have changed since then so this visit was an interesting one in a number of ways. First of all Don Marinelli has now retired. As [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benshirley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12407111&#038;post=815&#038;subd=benshirley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Made very welcome at ETC</media:title>
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		<title>FascinatE project 2nd review</title>
		<link>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/fascinate-project-2nd-review/</link>
		<comments>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/fascinate-project-2nd-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benshirley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Salford]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from an intense week at the FascinatE EU FP7 project review  at Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, you can find some detail of the project here. This is our second annual review by the European Commission review team, I blogged about the first one at the time. As part of the review we&#8217;ve demonstrated a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benshirley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12407111&#038;post=778&#038;subd=benshirley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Part of the third order ambisonic audio rig used in demos. Football reproduction in 3D over 16 speakers sounds just amazing.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Fraunhofer HHI&#039;s OmniCam equipped with 6 Arri Alexa-M cameras. Seriously high end  bit of kit!</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Arri Alexa on location at the Arena</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Fraunhofer HHI&#039;s OmniCam (omnidirectional camera) at the Arena</media:title>
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		<title>A very good cause indeed</title>
		<link>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/a-very-good-cause-indeed/</link>
		<comments>http://benshirley.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/a-very-good-cause-indeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.justgiving.com/Martin-Spooner Last year a friend of mine from Coniston Sailing Club, Grant Spooner, had a heart attack in Coniston and his life was saved as a result of the NW Air Ambulance service arriving promptly and getting Grant to hospital in Blackpool within 20 mins. NWAA cover 5500 square miles and a population of around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benshirley.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12407111&#038;post=771&#038;subd=benshirley&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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