Invitations to debate journalism and hyperlocal
A couple of events coming up which I’m involved in over the next couple of weeks and which I’d like to share with you, and pass on invitations. * First up, as part of this year’s Edinburgh Science...
View ArticleBig Chip Awards 2010 shortlist released
The Big Chip Awards has this morning announced its shortlisted entries – see the full list here. Some great projects named in there and selected from a record number of entries according to orgnaisers...
View ArticleHow Do Awards 2010 – the winners
Unfortunate timings might have put the annual north west awards ceremony up against the Leaders’ Debate but, thanks to the wonders of twitter, the ‘ow dos became a second must-have back channel event...
View ArticleThe Future starts at 4.30.
Adrian Slatcher reports from the future. Yesterday was the first time I’ve been to Vision and Media’s offices in Salford Quays. Given the often soulless buildings in that part of the city, I was...
View ArticleThe Day the Arts Gets Digital
Adrian Slatcher invites you to come and play Manchester has been a great place to be this year if you’ve an interest in digital arts. We’ve had two brilliant festivals, in FutureEverything and Abandon...
View ArticleMedia Festival underway with old and new media ‘rubbing up’
Adrian Slatcher mingles down at the Media Festival Hipster goaties. Black rimmed spectacles. iPads. The usual signifiers of new media are dotted around the room, but outnumbered by suits and men of a...
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Playspace: A day of art and technology, gadgets and gaming
The Playspace event at The Contact Theatre on Saturday seemed to span everything from dance to data. Impossible to cover everything that happened there so this is a few notes and thoughts from the part...
View ArticleNorthern Quarter to become home of Hyper Island school
Readers of this blog could well be interested in this move by digital training giants Hyper Island. As I blogged here earlier today, the Swedish organisation is setting up in Lever Street in the new...
View ArticleBBC’s move to Salford: ‘Limitless and long term opportunity’
The impact the BBC’s move north will have on the region’s existing digital industry is something that hasn’t received much attention to date but an interview with Photolink‘s Craig Johnson giving a...
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There’s something digital stirring on Teesside #teesconvo
Just some of the 40 people who made it along to the Cultural Conversation The first in a new series of Cultural Conversations for what some call the Tees Valley (more on that in a moment) got underway...
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