I hope this is ok to post this here, since it is very much in the area of work of the network...
Join one of the most successful social enterprises in digital inclusion to create and set-up a new exciting training programme to enable young people in low-income communities to use, design and develop mobile and web-based applications for social change and community action.
Founded in 1995 by Rodrigo Baggio, the Centre for Digital Inclusion (CDI) is the pioneer of digital inclusion in the…
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Added by Iris Lapinski on December 8, 2009 at 1:41pm —
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A call to arms for budding photographers...
Channel 4, Blipfoto and the National Theatre of Scotland have teamed up to launch a global photography event running throughout 2010. The event - Unstaged - takes the form of three photography competitions, starting in Scotland then opening up for entries f…
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Added by Nicola More on November 18, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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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…
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Added by Nicola More on November 9, 2009 at 2:46pm —
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Edinburgh’s Storm Ideas have unveiled an official branded destination on their popular Twibbon site to reinforce The X Factor’s presence on social networking websites.

Working in association with ITV and FremantleMedia Enterprises, the destination launches to coincide with the live phases of the hit se…
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Added by Dan Moss on October 9, 2009 at 12:13pm —
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Channel 4's new media Commissioners end a month of UK-wide briefings in Glasgow on Wednesday, October 21. Louise Brown from Cross-Platform, Matt Locke from Education and Tom Loosemore from 4iP will outline their areas of interest for…
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Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 5, 2009 at 5:11pm —
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http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/did-you-know-4-0-video-by-the-economist/
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Added by Arvind Salwan on September 22, 2009 at 8:15pm —
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When I was a kid, gaming was all about sitting an inch from the telly with my little brother, guiding a pixellated plumber or blue hedgehog through a maze of adventures against a backdrop of repetitive tinny music. Yet primitive as it was by today’s standards, it was an escape from parents, tidying my room and…
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Added by Nicola More on September 22, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Jay Feeney is behind Freak Marketing Ltd, a digital marketing, brand, identity and design agency working out of Edinburgh.
Recently Jay and his team launched the Facebook application…
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Added by Ewan McIntosh on September 21, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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George Falconer (SE) posted on this event on 8 Sept (rather than 15th). Still - this addendum is a good chance to remind you about the event (as below). If you would like to attend, RSVP: ask4info@newmediacorp.co.uk
Into music and technology? Well, further to George Falconer's blog, just contact ask4info@newmediacorp.co.uk if you fancy coming along to the Glasgow. Music. Now. event, at The Hub, from 1pm-6pm on 29th?
You can also email in any questions you would like posed at the Question Time…
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Added by Arvind Salwan on September 17, 2009 at 8:52pm —
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Me and Robert Fergusson
Thanks to Stewart Attwood
1% of the population have bipolar affective disorder, (the rebranded manic depression) and I‘m one of them, as was my dad and his dad before him. Statistically, there are 13 other people with bipolar on 38 minutes. I don’t know who they are and wh…
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Added by Richard Saville-Smith on September 7, 2009 at 6:25pm —
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Shrunk! The Butterflyers' festive winning entry
Madévi Dailly from 4mations talked about her experience at Dare ProtoPlay:
Dare to be Digital is over for another year. Congratulations to
Gentlemen of Fortune…
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Added by Elaine Russell on August 19, 2009 at 12:44pm —
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I read this morning about a company called
Journalism Online who launched in April this year - it's been set up by Steven Brill the Yale Lecturer and journalist; they are effectively asking for multiple w…
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Added by Colin Gilchrist on August 17, 2009 at 1:08pm —
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We've launched our franchise this week, hoping to attract some great people within the digital marketing arena. Despite the recession we've enjoyed a great deal of success over the past year; something we now aim to help our franchisees achieve with our help.
The last couple of years we've worked hard o…
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Added by Graeme Kerr on August 11, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Enter your seed idea, win £1,000 idea development money, and a potential commercial commission with Shop Direct!
Just-b. Productions have teamed up with Aegis, NESTA and Shop Direct for
Branding Talent #2
Shop Direct is a massive (and massively successful) home shopping organisation that has moved online in a big way over the last few years. They are currently in the process of preparing to launch a new fashion cloth…
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Added by Greg Povey on August 10, 2009 at 1:02pm —
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The best raw talent in computer games design from around the world is preparing for a final battle at
Dare ProtoPlay (14-16 August) at
EICC (
Fringe venue 150), part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Dare ProtoPlay, presented by Abertay University and powered by Intel, has gr…
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Added by Elaine Russell on August 5, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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Pitch your idea for TV Platforms to win an industry placement and attendance to a BBC workshop
The BBC’s aim is to make available its TV and radio programming to everyone in the UK
We are looking to find talented individuals who combine great software skills with creative flair and who want to work with world-class content enhanced by the latest technological developments
The “creative code-swingers” will have skills in the latest web-programming code, including Flash, Java, XML and mo…
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Added by Greg Povey on July 31, 2009 at 5:13pm —
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Image courtesy of "Newspaper Innovation"
Brian Currie gave me permission to post a link to his article in The Scotsman today:…
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Added by Colin Gilchrist on July 14, 2009 at 5:22pm —
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Channel 4 (C4) has launched
Test Tube Telly, a new service that integrates its 4oD on-demand video player with Facebook so users can see what their friends are watching.
The move means that C4 becomes the…
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Added by Darcie on July 13, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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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…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on July 2, 2009 at 9:25pm —
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The Hub, a new center for creativity, encouraging interaction and collaborative working, recently opened in Glasgow's Digital Media Quarter.
The DMQ - an initiative by
Sco…
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Added by Darcie on June 23, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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