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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I wrote last week about the presentation by someone from ITV Imagine at a Digital Horizons seminar; disappointment at the channels failure of imagination was offset by an unexpectedly insightful talk given by a researcher from the University of Sussex, Michael Bull.
Michael focuses on people’s use of media products as ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
At a seminar that I chaired for Digital Horizons last week, a presenter from a department at ITV called Imagine presented their vision of the future.
I hadn't heard of Imagine before but it now employs 15 people and exists to inform internal and external producers, commissioners and execs at ITV ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Andy Palacio a musician and artist, who worked with me at the community media organisation Cultural Partnerships in the 1980s, died last month aged 47.
A member of the Garifuna people in Belize, Andy was a talented musician and passionate about preserving and promoting Garifuna language and culture.
Andy, whose musical career ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
Do you work in Broadcast? In:
• Multi purpose/format editing
• Interactive producer/production
• IT/Media Integration
• Web meets Audio Visual
• HD Engineering/Science
• Live Events/Music Directing (Vision Mixing)
• Broadcast Media Graphics
• Presenting for Live Events
• HD (5.1) Sound
• Mutliplatform Writer/Project Creator
01Zero-One is building a pool of Industry trainers for 2012 – would you like ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Consumers ARE connected.
The market IS a conversation
Convergence HAS happened.
Broadband is MASS market.
Mobile finally works.
…and everywhere we look we see rich content….
But where does all the content come from? The last two years has seen an explosion in user generated content and new channels but research is showing that as audiences ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
On 30th January details about the £10m call for collaborative research projects, targeted specifically at the creative industries, will be announced and the competition formally launched. Full details about the call and how to apply will be posted on the technology programme website.
Objectives
In recognition of the importance of technology to ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
We've been asked to run a 2 day 'innovation lab' as part of the Content 360 pitching competition at this year's Mip TV in Cannes.
It's an interesting development from last year when we worked with the BBC on their categories in the competition. This time we're working with Ogilvy (part ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Spoke yesterday at a conference on Creativity:Innovation and Industry, organised by the Insititute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University in Leicester. The other contributors were two academics, Professor Margaret Boden and Dr Claudia Eckert, and Toby Moores of Sleepy Dog, the company that brought us Buzz.
Annoyingly I managed to ...
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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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