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THE CREATIVE BUSINESS: A FREE ONLINE RESOURCE IN 12 MODULES

The Creative Business is a series of 12 modules of information about developing creative enterprises, written especially for people running businesses in the creative industries. http://blog.davidparrish.com/tshirts_and_suits/2009/07/the-creative-business-12-modules.html The information is particularly relevant to creative businesses and cultural enterprises in the fields of Advertising, Literature and Publishing, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Design, Cultural Heritage, and Crafts. Dav… Continue

Added by David Parrish on July 9, 2009 at 8:51pm — No Comments

TV Broadcasting in Northern Ireland

To quote from Sean O'Casey's 'The Plough and the Stars', TV Broadcasting in Northern Ireland is "in a state of chasis". But don't take my word for it - here are the reports to the House of Commons inquiry by the NI Select Committeee. The submissions by independent producers and the NUJ make sad reading on the state of the industry here - particularly in relation to the lack of commissions from network broadcasters. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmniaf/memo/television… Continue

Added by Una Murphy on July 9, 2009 at 3:28pm — 2 Comments

Would you pay for Facebook?

The Guardian today reports on the Sun Valley conference in Idaho, where the big guns in digital media network, discuss industry issues, massage one another's egos and mumble about the evils of the press (presumably). Twitter is said to be among the hot topics of the day and much debate circled around one key question: Will users ever be willing to pay for sites like YouTube, Twitter & Facebook? John Malone of Liberty Media thinks so, believing when we're hooked we're hooked. Rupert Murdoc… Continue

Added by Nicola More on July 9, 2009 at 1:51pm — 6 Comments

Digital Media or Masonic Conspiracy?

A fascinating article in this week's Economist asks whether social media sites like LinkedIn are the new brotherhood, or whether older established networks and clubs still exert real power in business and government. Un… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on July 9, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Featured Member: George Falconer

George Falconer a project manager within Scottish Enterprise’s Digital Markets and Enabling Technologies team. For the last six years he worked with national partners to develop projects to suppo… Continue

Added by Darcie on July 9, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Win a place at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Darcie, our wonderful site editor will shortly publish the pdf which accompanies this email. It contains details for the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network and UK Trade and Investment competition to win a place at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. On offer are five free places to showcase your solution or product in the UKTI stand in Barcelona from 15th to the 18th of February 2010. Full details will be in the information sheet. If you have any questions or com… Continue

Added by Scottish Enterprise on July 8, 2009 at 4:39pm — 1 Comment

Telly On Demand

Friday saw the official launch of the revitalised 4oD on Channel4.com. In addition to Catch-Up there are thousands of hours of Archive programmes from Comic Strip Presents to The Mark of Cain. Over the we… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on July 8, 2009 at 12:58pm — 7 Comments

Art of digital, and sustainable ability

BBC technology journalist Bill Thompson has written a great article "Giving Life a Shape" on how the arts can help us all think in new ways about digital. Bill mentions… Continue

Added by Hannah Rudman on July 4, 2009 at 3:55pm — No Comments

Mypolice meets Calum Steele

Yesterday I visited Calum Steele in a first round of interviews with the various organisations/bodies of the Police force. I was looking to get a thumbs up on the mypolice service and see if we can get the police working with us.... to read more or find out about who mypolice are go to… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on July 3, 2009 at 2:50pm — No Comments

TinEye ...Find useful/valuable/disruptive applications

Hi Just been talking to a company in Canada called Idee Inc. http://blog.ideeinc.com/ They are looking to collaborate with some Scottish partners. So have a look at the blog, sign up for the Beta of TinEye and see how you can use it? And if you are interested in technologies regarding images and sight, or you have some novel ideas/ technologies you want to discuss let me know and we will start some visual communications. And if you are a… Continue

Added by Steve Harrison on July 3, 2009 at 12:41pm — 1 Comment

MA in Creative Media Practice at UWS

We're launching our new MA Creative Media Practice, starting this September. It's is new and innovative programme focusing on the development of your knowledge, understanding and creative and technical skills in the fast-moving areas of screen and broadcast, digital content creation and the wider creative industries, including audio, performance and digital arts. Although based primarily at our Ayr Campus – which has some of Scottish higher education’s finest media, broadcasting, and recording… Continue

Added by Graham Jeffery on July 3, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Real Giant Robots arrive in Japan!

One of the web's great sites, Gizmodo, has posted pictures of a giant Gundam robot that's terrifying Japanese children as we speak. It's a life size(?) highly detailed model and utterly awesome to anyone with geek blood in their veins. Beautiful. Continue

Added by David Smith on July 3, 2009 at 12:04pm — 4 Comments

Where Innovation Creates Value

“It is easy to impede [economic] growth by excessive research, by having too high a percentage of scientific manpower engaged in adding to the stock of knowledge and too small a percentage engaged in using it. This is the position in Britain today.” (Charles Carter and Bruce… Continue

Added by Ray Macsweeney on July 3, 2009 at 10:32am — No Comments

Free advice, it doesn't pay - or does it?

(Image care of Hugh at gapingvoid.com)
Not all of us do it for the cash, some of us consider 'The Godfather' way - but ultimately there are a few great people out there in our creative world that give up their time to help and assist startups and young companies without loo… Continue

Added by Colin Gilchrist on July 2, 2009 at 9:29pm — 7 Comments

The Rise and Rise Of Web 2.0 Photojournalism

Each week brings new innovations in the arena of online photo-sharing. Many belived that Flickr and the declining Photobucket would solve all our online needs, but the reverse has proved to be true, as new sites dig deeper into the passion centres of people's l… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on July 2, 2009 at 9:25pm — 1 Comment

In Glasgow? Into Tech? And a Girl? We need you!

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 Continue

Added by Kate Ho on July 2, 2009 at 7:26pm — No Comments

Whose Side are you On? Southern Soul or Twitter?

Trouble is brewing in Tweet Town. In the 1959 film Tweet Dreams , after failing so many times to catch Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat suffers a nervous breakdown and goes to see a psychiatrist. Quite apart from this terrible moment in Sylvester's emot… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on July 2, 2009 at 4:16pm — 1 Comment

Mapping Digital Scotland

Was looking a few weeks back at how successfully this site has grown (well done Darcie) and thinking to myself that it would be really nice to be able to see at a glance where everyone is geographically.

As Project Manager for TRC media’s… Continue

Added by Carole Dunlop on July 2, 2009 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments

New forms of journalism, Part 1: Let me be part of it

The Online Journalism Blog's Malcolm Coles calls on newspapers to kill their RSS feeds because no-one's using them. Some newspapers are churning hundreds of of their stories out into personal newsreaders, something that in the early days of RSS seemed a highly risky approach as it could,… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on July 2, 2009 at 10:22am — 3 Comments

legal file sharing - an advanced form of distribution?

Global Gaming Factory has bought the Swedeish based P2P file sharing platform The Pirate Bay, a notorious site for illegal torrent downloads with the intention of using the site's advanced distribution model to their advantage. The Pirate Bay is rated the internet's 106th most po… Continue

Added by Tulip on July 2, 2009 at 10:03am — No Comments

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