Archive for April, 2006
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
Marleen Stikker, Director of the Waag Society in Amsterdam was knighted yesterday!
As far as I can work out being invested as a 'ridder' is the equivalent of being awarded the MBE but the Dutch translate it as being made a 'lady-knight'. I've known Marleen since 1991, I think, when she ...
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
On the final day of the BNMI's HD Summit, the final panel - of film makers who had used the medium - did make a case that in some circumstances the high resolution format can add real value.
David Christensen, director of the powerful documentary War Hospital, made a comment which ...
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
It's snowing in Banff and the New Media Institute is holding a 3 day summit on High Definition. I came partly to see whether there would be any value in setting up collaboration between BNMI and Creative London, partly to work with Andrew Bullen who is Director of the Mediaguild ...
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Matt Locke, Head of Innovation in BBC New Media and the client for the recent Labs, has listed the winning projects on the BBC's 'open' site.
Given that he had expected between 3 and 6 from the three labs, to have got 12 taken forward is a great result.
It'll be interesting ...
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Friday, April 7th, 2006
Spread Eagle Hotel
The pilot series of Innovation Labs has ended with nine companies winning commissions and another six or seven projects being referred to other budget holders in the BBC. It’s a much better result than we’d anticipated at the outset.
There were many other benefits to the process – ...
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