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’…
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Added by Kate Ho on October 13, 2009 at 11:18pm —
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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…
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Added by Kate Ho on September 1, 2009 at 7:41am —
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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…
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Added by Kate Ho on July 16, 2009 at 10:55pm —
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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
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Added by Kate Ho on July 2, 2009 at 7:26pm —
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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 ...…
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Added by Kate Ho on June 28, 2009 at 11:30pm —
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So, its the end of Day 1 at the first Scottish Social Innovation Camp. The idea is to take 6 back-of-the-envelope ideas, add lots of people, then try and make it happen over 48 hours. The point is to take ideas that could potentially create social change by connecting people through the web.
This is the 3rd SICamp, and this time round, the 6 ideas are:
Citipedia-An online public town planning tool.
Ex-Changing Places ->
Weedayout -Google Maps mashup to map disable toilet faci…
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Added by Kate Ho on June 21, 2009 at 1:00am —
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[Cross post from
StartupCafe]
This is a little off-topic, but we’re excited about the announcement of the next Twestival! In case you were wondering what this is – besides a hybrid of the words twitter and festival – in a nutshell, its an event organised on twitter, by twitter types, for charity:
“In February 2009, Twestival leveraged the Twitter audience to raise more than $250,000 in the most ambitious Twitter fundraisin…
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Added by Kate Ho on June 17, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Hi everyone,
Bela Hamid, Thomas Drapier, Jessica Williamson and I have been working very hard lately and now we're ready to launch
StartupCafe:
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We aim to be a fun and humorous place to go to for local startup news. We’ll be offering you an alternative commentary of tech, startup and social media news; along with announcements of jobs, events and competitions (all with a dose of silliness). As if that’s not enough, we’ll also be showcasing local st…
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Added by Kate Ho on June 9, 2009 at 11:26pm —
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[NOTICE: If you are interested in attending something like this in Edinburgh - please leave a comment so we can gauge interest]
Thanks to
Hermoine Way from
TechFluff.tv, along with
Jonathan Sarno and
Alex Cone from CodeFab, I had the pleasure of getting a scholarship to the…
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Added by Kate Ho on June 4, 2009 at 11:58am —
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So unless you've been under a rock lately (or not in the Tech scene in Edinburgh), you will know that the
Social Innovation Camp is rolling into town.
I've submitted two ideas of my own:
GiveKnitting.org and
Girls in Tech.
But I've been keeping an eye on the other entries, and wanted to talk about my fav…
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Added by Kate Ho on May 22, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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I was driving into Edinburgh today and spotted someone training for the
Moonwalk - the lady was the first person this year I saw training for the walk, and prompted me to write this post.
For people that have never heard of the Moonwalk, here's the basic idea: take 10,000 men and women, get them to walk a full marathon (26.2 miles) or the half marathon (13.1 miles) in a brightly decorated bra to raise money for breast cancer. If you haven't seen it,…
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Added by Kate Ho on May 22, 2009 at 1:30am —
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In a month's time, I'm packing up and heading towards the West Coast of Scotland onto Islay for the
Education2020 Unconference.
The unconference is going to be in the same style as BarCamp, and although I haven't worked extensively in e-learning; I'm interested enough to go up, listen and participate in the conversation. It will be interesting to hear what people think the future of education would be like. Personally, I'm intr…
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Added by Kate Ho on May 10, 2009 at 11:39pm —
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Added by Kate Ho on April 21, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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I've just got back from the
Lovelace Colloquium held at
Leeds University organised by
Hannah Dee. The colloquium is an event for all computing students within the UK and included a series of talks from Gillain Arnold (IBM), Cornelia Boldyreff (Lincoln University), Julie Greensmith a.k.a. Dr Thrill (Nottingham), Eileen Brown (Microsoft) and Karen Groenink (Google). Fina…
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Added by Kate Ho on April 17, 2009 at 12:00am —
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After the fantastic success of the Scotland Girl Geeks Dinner launch in Dundee, we are proud to announce the launch of Edinburgh Girl Geeks Dinners!
Details are listed below. But be quick - we're expecting the event to be a fantastic night!
Edinburgh Girl Geek Launch Night
14th May 2009, 7pm – 10pm, Mini-Forum 2, Informatics Forum, 10
Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Cost - £10 including hot buffet and soft drinks
Girl Geeks Dinners has arrived in Edinburgh! Come to our launch night,…
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Added by Kate Ho on April 9, 2009 at 5:36pm —
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