Archive for the 'New Media' Category

Equalities and Human Rights Commission launches Youtube Channel.

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

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This Youtube channel is my idea of good. A series of cleanly made but short (typically 3 mins) videos on personal experience of discrimination and reflections on human rights. The film above is from Michael Etkind, who survived a Nazi concentration camp. [...]

Newsvisual

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | No Comments »

If you missed this fine link on D’Log here it is.

Downing Tweet : and so the conversation begins.

Monday, March 31st, 2008 | 1 Comment »

More on Downing Street on Twitter this lunchtime, Very friendly, would like to have a name behind the address please and I suppose my feedback would be that until we know who you are we don’t really know how to relate to you.

There has been loads of blog other suggestions since the Downing [...]

Quick, quick, slow media.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Paul Caplan responded to this comment I made yesterday on this blog post with this explanation of what he thinks slow media is and why it matters. Thanks Paul. For taking the time.

Blogging Plant Arrives on Twitter.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

A Birmingham Artist has released the source code to allow plants to blog.

More accurately it tweets. So I’m following it. No, that’s right.

No I’ve looked too and I still don’t understand.

Via D’Log – who probably does.

Update Tower Bridger Twitters! This I can understand. Thanks Antonio.

Wishful Linking Linking…

Friday, March 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Mark McGuinness’ new project is a must for anyone working in the creative sector.

I’ll let him explain:
I’ve just created a new blog, Wishful Linking, to share links that may be useful and/or interesting to you as a creative professional. So if you’d like me to send you links to web pages about creativity, creative careers, [...]

Angry Journalist #1748

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 | No Comments »

Digital hero:

Angry Journalist #1748:
Journalist 1573, you are never too old to get another job. I got hired on to my present newspaper last May at the age of 74. I’ve got a heart transplant, suffer from gout, and am losing my hearing. I never shot video in my life, but now shoot it on almost [...]

It’s 99% crap

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 | No Comments »

Please read this sobering but accurate post from Gia Milinovich after her first visit to TED – the place where the currency is quality ideas, focussed leaders, ambition for change worth working for.