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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

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

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

This is how to write a brief: make it brief

Mick Jagger's lesser known qualities as a superb writer of briefs, the one below to Andy Warhol:

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Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 31, 2009 at 4:16pm — 1 Comment

Featured Member: Blipfoto's Joe Tree

Joe Tree is one half of Leith startup… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 29, 2009 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Meet Channel 4's Digital Commissioners: The Wrap

For the past month digital commissioners from Channel 4's Education, Cross-Platform and 4iP departments have traveled the country sharing what we are looking for in 2010, how much money we want to be spending and what learnings we've had over the past year's projects. Caroline Beavon, journo student in Birmingham, had the fastest fingers and has banged out… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 22, 2009 at 10:12am — No Comments

Featured Member: Tim Maguire

This week's featured member is Tim Maguire, the Edinburgh-based Director of Roll Titles, a brand new company working on some initial, secret projects in the world of 'uncorporate films'. Tim's previous work reflects his 'in-your-face', bold style, produced on tight budget… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 7, 2009 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

Meet the Commissioners hits Glasgow: Make sure you're on the list

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… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 5, 2009 at 5:11pm — 1 Comment

World class entrepreneurship workshops in Edinburgh

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Added by Ewan McIntosh on October 5, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Meet the Commissioners hits Belfast: follow online

This week sees Channel 4's new media Commissioners hit the road, starting in Belfast today. Louise Brown from Cross-Platform, Matt Locke from Education and Tom Loosemore from 4iP will outline their areas of interest for 2010 and beyo… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on September 30, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

What is Return on Investment on the social interwebs?

Following on from my post explaining the difference between 'funding' and 'investing' is a nice coda from Olivier Blanchard, outlining the what, why and how of Return on Investment. It's essential viewing (and fun at that) if you think that merely engaging loads of Twitterers is go… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on September 29, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Has Google done it? Check the Goollery

It's a disappointing truth that many of the ideas we get at 4iP have been done before. A two minute noodle around your favourite search engine would reveal your potential competitors and either prevent you spending an afternoon on a pitch that'll go nowhere, or thrust you into a niche that's a sure winner (well, maybe). I'm convinced, too, that Google's algorithms regularly seek out development producers and coders as they look for similar products to the ones t… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on September 28, 2009 at 8:30pm — 4 Comments

Funding vs Investment: the 4iP low-down

When Channel 4 launched 4iP, its Innovation for the Public Fund, the last word brought along connotations that we were largely 'spending' money à la grant, when in fact most of our work is investing in sustainable digital media. It's a nuance explained well in a guest post on the 4iP blog by Jason Hall, S… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on September 28, 2009 at 1:32pm — 1 Comment

Government 2.0 or Government 2 point eh?

Government 2010 will examine how the next generation government is set to change in the light of social, media and technological change, and 4iP is supporting the event as it provides a free web feed for participants on October 22nd. Prior to the event, its organisers are carrying out a quick online survey to test the water and s… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on September 25, 2009 at 4:19pm — No Comments

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