March 31, 2009
There was an interesting clash of events today. Over at the Orange Studio was the Screen West Midlands/Creative Republic Crunch Time Event. Screen WM’s Sarah Arnesen has a useful report on it – sounds very positive and it certainly had an good choice of keynote in James Medway (update: Ruth Ward has put up the [...]
March 30, 2009
Found over at the Digital Spy site: Television – Tube Talk – 'Hustle' relocates to Birmingham? – Digital Spy – This true? Fascinating news if it is. I need to find me a Selly Oak BBC drama village insider.
March 29, 2009
Some links for you: Digital pioneers still shining amid recession – Birmingham Post – Business – Business News – Creative industries – The column what I wrote for the Birmingham Post this week.
March 27, 2009
For too long now the houses in the street next to where my Mom lives (in Alum Rock, East Birmingham) have been boarded up ready for demolition. Some have gone but others remain. In fact they’ve remained that way for several years now. I don’t actually know what the plans for them are but I [...]
Some links for you: Vision Lozells – Welcome to the Vision Lozells website – 3d virtual Lozells! Not tried it yet (PC laptop wouldn’t run it). From the site: “a bespoke 3D virtual environment which allows you to view the proposals interactively in 3D. This software has a number of special innovation created for the [...]
March 26, 2009
I gave a presentation at the LUCID dissemination event today in which I proposed that the region needs to think afresh about setting a strategy for identifying opportunities in the digital economy. I know, sounds grand doesn’t it. The bottom line is that I have to write a short paper for Advantage West Midlands to [...]
March 25, 2009
Just thought I’d get this down as it’s an issue raised in the meeting I’m sitting in as I type this now: “Are the city’s creative industries too far on the other side of the social media curve that they’ve forgotten how to engage with everybody else?” The meeting is generally made up of representatives [...]
March 24, 2009
Some links for you: LUCID – Location, User and Context-Aware Information Delivery project – Videos – Not watched all of these yet but looks like a useful set of videos on mobile content. Speakers are Jerome Turner – User-Lab, Birmingham City University; The Blueshoot Project – Lee Pritchard, University of Wolverhampton; Alice Gardiner from the [...]