Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
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In New York to run a workshop at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers.
The brief is more or less: do Crossover (normally a five day lab) in four hours.
I have a feeling that this crowd, who are all from television, are going to ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
One of the projects commissioned from last year's northern Innovation Lab at Swinton Park has gone up on Rattle Research's site.
"Muddy Boots is a project prototype commisioned by the BBC to investigate the ways in which social metadata can be utilised within the BBC. It's called Muddy Boots because we ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
It's the penultimate day of the two week tour with the Innovation Lab roadshow. We're at the Lowry in Salford today. It's a striking building but one in which the interior designer has been excessively liberal with the orange paint.
Last week's Edinburgh event is described by Calico Jack, one of ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Finally a day off from the whistle-stop tour of cities to launch this year's BBC Innovation Labs. We've done events in Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle (again) so far.
I decided to base the afternoon's workshop on a user-centred design exercise since that seems to have been the most valuable ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
The final act of Crossover UK was Cross-Platform Pitch competition at the Doc/Fest in Sheffield. The whole DigiDocs strand was well attended and we had a full house for the pitches.
Four of the teams which formed for the last two days of Crossover in October chose to pitch the projects ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
The Doc/Fest in Sheffield started last night with a fine documentary about Joy Division written by Jon Savage.
The festival starts in earnest today. It has been transformed over the past two years, doubling its budget and the number of delegates attending. They've also introduced a 'Digi-docs' strand looking at the ...
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