June 26, 2009
Some links for you: Pixel Perfect Pre-Raphaelites – Latest News – Digital Birmingham – "Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery will be the first museum to offer an unrivalled resource for studying the art of the Pre-Raphaelites, using Microsoft's cutting-edge Silverlight technology to bring pixel perfect definition to the screen, as if seeing the real artwork [...]
June 24, 2009
So I tweeted an idea when I got to this part of the Digital Britain report on ‘Getting Britain Online’: “[it will] will require provision of appropriate support including outreach, skills training, and demonstration of how people can get the most out of the digital revolution, delivered through tailored, local, community-based programmes building on existing [...]
Some links for you: Look Brum, I'm on TV! | Metro.co.uk – "you’d think I’d be excited at the news that Birmingham is getting its own TV channel in the next few months called City TV. But then, I’ve spent far too much time trawling through the higher ends of Sky Digital programming, where channels [...]
June 17, 2009
Some links for you: Yoosk today! – All Topics – Yoosk Digital Britain page for Birmingham event. The Digital Mission Regional Tour is coming to Birmingham! – "A series of regional workshops are happening around the UK to talk about the Digital Mission series to the USA taking place in Autumn 2009 and Spring 2010. [...]
June 15, 2009
I thought I’d leave a week until I blogged about last Monday’s ‘Cinematic Backwater‘ debate which kicked off the excellent Fazeley Digital Festival. I thought maybe I’d calm down in the interim, that the underlying issue of ‘does it matter that Norwich get cool films before Birmingham?’ would vex me less. Suffice to say I’m [...]
June 13, 2009
About a year ago I was talking to some work colleagues about an event that was taking place about social media. “It’ll be full of the usual suspects,” I said. “But Dave,” they responded, “you are a usual suspect.” I suspect that’s how I’m viewed – a usual suspect. Truth is I don’t actually attend [...]
June 12, 2009
Some links for you: Wade on Birmingham » Blog Archive » Birmingham’s digital TV transition: Are you converted? – Just a reminder that if you live in the other Birmingham in Alabama then your analogue TV signal will be switched off by Friday. Read a book instead is Wade's suggestion. Screen WM seek Production Trainees [...]
June 10, 2009
Entries are now open for this year’s Birmingham Half Marathon taking place on Sunday October 11th. The route is changed to a flatter south Birmingham one (from last year’s undulating north/west Birmingham one) that happens to go very close to my house in Bournville. There are some undulations as you come into Bournville and it [...]