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The topic of citizen journalism, old/new media has been a favourite topic of mine this past week after Jeff Ullman mentioned the “death of newspapers” in his talk. To my surprise, the Guardian announced that they are building a blog focused on local media, and for some unknown reason, has chosen Leeds, Edinburgh and Cardiff. Plus, they are advertising for a position of a local blogger! And we’re not just talking about “pay per blog” type of job – but a real job. With money attached. In fact, it’… Continue

After the success of the last Edinburgh Girl Geeks Dinner, the next one will be on 29th Sept!

Incidentally, we sold out pretty quick at the last dinner, so if you want to come along, make sure you get your tickets ASAP!

Details below!

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Tuesday 29 September, 6.30 for 7pm
Screen Academy, Edinburgh Napier University, 2a Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh EH10 4NU
Cost - £10 including buffet and soft drinks (£5 cash back for undergraduates – sponsored by Interconnect)

Girl Geeks Dinners is back… Continue

In the past week, I’ve been working on an interactive mortgage guide as part of an entry into the Touch Finance Competition.

After speaking to users, and looking at FSA regulations, here is one solution to making it easier to choose the perfect mortgage for you :)


"The Interactive Mortgage Guide is designed to take advantage of the multi-touch capability of Microsoft Surface to help you make sense of the variety of mortgage options available. The Natural User Interface (NUI) enables us to giv… Continue

The girls over at Girl Geeks Dinners Scotland are looking to hold an event in Glasgow at the end of August.

If you are interested in helping out - please drop me a line at kate@startupcafe.co.uk

Thanks!

Kate

As some of you know already, I've been working on mypolice.org - a website allowing the public to give feedback to the Police.

We were pretty excited when the Times decided to write a piece on us for this sunday's paper. What resulted was this:

"Police leaders have warned that a new website allowing the public to criticise the service could be hijacked by troublemakers"

followed by ...… Continue