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Done the TMA! Hooray!!

Hooray! After working on this intensively in all my scraps of free time for the last week, I have done the TMA with 3 hours to spare!! Hooray!!!

The course forums, and personal histories of the Internet

I paid a visit to the course forum, to check for any new advice on the TMA and to find out the time of the tutorial.

Several people had posted the answers to the ‘Personal history of the Internet’ exercise. Some had used Prestel and similar early bulletin boards. As often happens with the OU, it’s reassuring when so many of them are about the same age as me!

This was an interesting exercise in the course materials: once you start looking back and putting dates to your recollections, you realise things really were quite different, and not that long ago.
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Links for TMA 1 about Last.fm

• About Last.fm
• Last.fm tour
• Techcrunch: iLike Growing Quickly, Still Massively Trailing Last.fm
• Wired: Last.fm: Music to Listeners’ Ears
• Shirky: The Music Business and the Big Flip
• BBC News | Technology | Last.fm debuts free music service
• BBC News | Technology | Last.fm strikes Sony music deal
• Web pioneer, 24, is millionaire
• How to be a high-tech startup success
• The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few (J. Surowiecki)
• Webscape
• BBC | Newsbeat | Technology | Internet music library launched
• BBC News | Technology | Web users ‘getting more selfish’ (Nielsen)
• BBC News | Technology | Web 2.0 ‘neglecting good design’ (Nielsen)
• Last.fm stories in BBC Audio and Video
• Adam Webb at the Guardian – The importance of music PR and marketing

(plus much more on the T320 website!)

Last.fm, the Stones, the Verve, and more

What with the first TMA being based on Last.fm, and Last.fm featuring in the DVD, I thought I should at least visit the site and see what it’s about.
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The first post: opening The Box…

At the time, it seemed like a good idea to wait and sign up in the next tax year. It meant I only had a couple of weeks between signing up and starting the course, but then I’m always optimistic that maybe next year I’ll earn more… (among other things!)

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