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As Bebo Fades Art Cinema Lives On

I am a great lover of dramatic paradox, cruel juxtaposition and decorative : colons.. So in the week that Bebo has announced it has frozen all commissioning and decimated its… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on November 15, 2009 at 11:50am — 3 Comments

Who is going to get the last Open Source Awards ticket?

Just 1 (that's one, uno, eins, une, 01 binary) ticket to go before we put up the SOLD OUT signs. Continue

Added by greg soper on November 15, 2009 at 11:21am — No Comments

Micro-blogging’s claims to greatness don’t ring true

Advocates of Twitter have made some grandiose claims about microblogging. One recurring argument is that it’s a tool for holding power to account. It’s a noble objective but falls far short of those lofty ambitions. Newspapers and television are achingly clear about their deficiencies. They fle… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on November 15, 2009 at 11:07am — No Comments

Onwards and upwards...

Looking for new avenues to explore, I entered the competition to design and produce the Glasgow Film Festival's trailer which, all going well, will be presented to cinema goers across Scotland and northern England in the weeks leading up to the GFF. After succesfully being shortlisted(woohoo!), I embarked on a c… Continue

Added by Patrick Macdonald on November 12, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Is social networking really the right tool for 21st century education?

from LSE's Flickr commons stream Great gurus of the internet age, such as Henry Jenkins, have challenged educational institutions to… Continue

Added by Anne Bonnar on November 10, 2009 at 3:36pm — No Comments

Scottish Enterprise at the BAFTA Scotland Awards

Lena Wilson highlights Scotland's digital media success stories at the prestigious awards ceremony in Glasgow. Big names from film and TV graced the red carpet at the 2009 Scottish BAFTA's, with guests including Robert Carlyle, Gregor Fisher, Kevin MacDonald, Stella Gonet, Muriel Gray, Isla Traqua… Continue

Added by George Falconer on November 9, 2009 at 5:33pm — No Comments

Open Source Awards - 25 FREE tickets to go and counting.

When they're gone they're gone. Now less than 25 FREE tickets for the Open Source Awards Event in Edinburgh on November 20th. Read all about it here http://opensourceawards.eventbrite.com/ Event organisation coming along nicely ... wine, beer, soft drinks, food ... all free. And great networking with some of Scotland's most liberated technologists. Book now ... Continue

Added by greg soper on November 9, 2009 at 5:09pm — No Comments

Triumph for 38minuters at the Baftas

It was a night of celebration for Scotland's digital sector last night, as the prestigious Bafta Scotland Awards recognised the abundance of talent and innovation across the genres. Tern Digital's KNTV Sex, in association with Channel 4, won in the… Continue

Added by Nicola More on November 9, 2009 at 2:46pm — No Comments

Citizen Journalism vs Being Human: "People act different behind a camera"

Techcrunch examines the roll of soldiers at the Fort Hood tragedy, not in helping stem the blood, but in snapping with mobile phones the injuries their comrades receive. The comparison is made to the strangely unhuman position one cellphone user puts himself in in Iran: "The second video is much less heartwarming, but far more terrif… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on November 9, 2009 at 12:42pm — No Comments

LIVE FOOTBALL ON INTERNET

Changes Of Trend- Watch TV On Web!

Due to the fast developing of internet and IT worlds, all the football fans are able to watch the live football on the internet from their Pc or laptop at any place or any time as long as there is internet access.

From the individual TV sets to cable TV, satellite TV with dish until now the satellite TV on pc. You all can see the changes of trend.

Watch TV on web are the future television set. This all must thanks to the programmer wh… Continue

Added by Tim Ferras on November 9, 2009 at 9:01am — No Comments

Central Station, Dummy Jim & Gillian Wearing

One of the high hopes for new artists network Central Station was that it would connect and promote great contemporary art and help users discover great stuff on the web. I was really impressed with the… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on November 7, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

The Art of Collective Curation - More Viral Loops

The Financial Times maxes out on viral-loop media, under the title Famous for 15 Megabytes. In an extract from Adam Penneberg's book on viral user-generated content, the FT, describes how viral cl… Continue

Added by Stuart Cosgrove on November 7, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Have your Embarrassing bits checked out in Glasgow

The Embarrassing Bodies team hit Glasgow tomorrow (Saturday) to help with your aches and pains. For the stars of the digital world, enslaved to binary and widgets, showing your awkward smells, bumps and boils seems a small price to pay for a s… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on November 6, 2009 at 11:57am — No Comments

Changing Software to meet Copyright Law

I've been looking at copyright laws quite a lot this month and in the end I had to redesign the product so that it adhered to the copyright laws. As a start up business there is no way I could afford a copyright lawyer and I have no inclination to provide a pirating service. The game I produce is not designed for a mass market and would be a one user product. Buying a copy of an MP3 for each product sold, would not have bothered my conscience very much as the artist would be getting a fee for th… Continue

Added by Rosie Wood on November 5, 2009 at 2:03pm — No Comments

New media project for Lincolnshire shows guts and foresight if nothing else

Times are hard for everyone and very little ever happens in the backwaters of Lincolnshire. However, we have the foresight to prepare for when times get better and we have launched a unique community project. We made front page news today which is great news.... now lets see if people have faith in what we are trying to achieve. Have a look at the project website www.lincsmediacentre.com Thanks for your support in anticipation Continue

Added by Steve Timewell on November 5, 2009 at 12:32pm — No Comments

How to fail your pitch before you've even started

The VentureBeat blog gives superb advice for anyone pitching their idea, from Jason Cohen, a startup entrepreneur who's been there and done it three times already and now sits on the other side of the table as an Angel investor. The four sins Jason picks out are the same four we see frequently at… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on November 5, 2009 at 11:39am — 1 Comment

A quick roundup of UWS's growing media presence on the web, and beyond

UCA Radio, the School of Creative Industries' radio station, broadcasting on 87.7FM and DAB to Ayrshire and beyond - live streaming on the web UWS' YouTube channel: sparsely populated at the moment, but we're working on it! UWS School of Creative and Cultural Industries research blog… Continue

Added by Graham Jeffery on November 4, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Blindside sign distribution deal for Saltmark

Blindside are delighted to announce that we have just finalised a distribution deal for our short film Saltmark with global media distribution specialists… Continue

Added by Kat Hebden on November 4, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

The Future of the Web - where will we be in 5 years

Whilst wandering around the Internet at lunchtime today I came across an interesting article by Cameron Chapman discussing the future of the Web and where it will be in 5 years time. Some of the items on the list include micro payments for quality content, more semantic content (and apps that expoit them), augmented reality in web apps and the reduction in importance of search engi… Continue

Added by Lynn Banks on November 4, 2009 at 1:24pm — No Comments

Scottish Centre for Enabling Technologies - Call for ideas

With winter drawing in and Christmas looming (no we can't quite believe it's that time of year again either!!), The Scottish Centre for Enabling Technologies are currently talking to companies with plans and projects to start in Jan/Feb next year!! So if you have an innovative idea which could potentially enhance your services, products, knowledge or business processes but feel you could benefit from a little extra support and guidance th… Continue

Added by Lynn Banks on November 3, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

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