Posted: October 17th, 2009 | Author: Chris | Filed under: Links | Tags: art, artists, comedy, community, drama, film, ikea, portfolio, social, society6, video | No Comments »
- Society6 – Society6 is a platform for the world’s artists and creatives to promote their work and connect with unique opportunities
- IKEA Heights – “Ikea Heights is a melodrama shot entirely in the Burbank California Ikea Store without the store knowing”. That’s… incredible
- aM laboratory – “Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer”. I love this
- 4iP Birmingham Nick Booth Presentation – Nick Booth talking about Big City Talk, Social Media Surgeries and Help Me Investigate at the Recasting Power event. This made me proud to be working in Birmingham
- Designing Social Interfaces – The patterns in this collection are social design patterns (a.k.a. social user experience design patterns). They are interaction pattern for people designing social interfaces
- Intelligent Naivety – First Art Game For the iPhone – “The soft watches have disappeared from the painting and are hidden in other Dalí works. Players need to find them by exploring enlarged pictures of those other art pieces”
- What’s the best art you’ve ever experienced? | Hello Art – The first stage of the Arts Council’s public engagement project running 2010-12 is a simple question and answer thing. Am wondering if this is as much an email capture system as anything
- Universe Creation 101 » Techniques for Segmenting Content Across Media – “While the notion of episodics is fairly understood, what isn’t is the variety of episodic techniques available and how these can be utilized in a cross-platform project. So, in this post I’ll outline ways a production can be designed for multi-platform segmentation”
- When The Audience Takes Control – “Lance Weiler breaks down the new models independent filmmakers are using to create a fan base”
- ARG Stats – “information about the uptake, impact and awards garnered from ‘alternate reality games’ (ARGs)”
Posted: September 11th, 2009 | Author: Chris | Filed under: Links | Tags: advertising, artists, Blogging, culturewars, games, google docs, googlemaps, infographics, marketing, monopoly, ning, online, peteashton, realtime, research, rss, rsscloud, socialmedia, statistics, verifiable, video, visualisation, wordpress | No Comments »
- Blogging for Artists – An informal talk given to Shropshire Arts Network on September 8th 2009 by Pete Ashton
- Culture Wars | About Culture Wars – Culture Wars is the online review of the Institute of Ideas in London. We cover books, films, theatre, art and talk events, with a view to understanding how political and other ideas filter through the culture, and how the arts in turn influence politics and society more generally
- Welcome to verifiable.com – “Our goal is to develop a tool to help you communicate data more clearly, efficiently, and honestly. We want to make it easy and fun to produce gorgeous, verifiable visualizations and allow viewers to dig into your data and even build on your work to bring out richer, clearer, or just plain different conclusions”
- Monopoly City Streets – Live worldwide game of Monopoly using Google Maps as the game board. The goal is simple. Play to beat your friends and the world to become the richest property magnate in existence” Launching 9 Sept
- RSS in the Clouds « Blog « WordPress.com – “Today we turned on support for all 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com something called RSS Cloud, which is basically a way for people to get push notification that your feed has updated”. Oh, now that is interesting
- Embeddable Google Document Viewer – A little known Google Docs feature will let you embed a PDF or .ppt on a website. One day we won’t have to faff around with arcane things like this
- Ning Apps – “Today you can choose from more than 90 Ning Apps, and that’s just the beginning. This number will continue to grow as developers here at Ning and around the world build additional Ning Apps tailored around your interests and passions”
Posted: July 15th, 2009 | Author: Chris | Filed under: Links | Tags: blip, fierce, ftp, lift, mark ball, melonzmagazine, rsc, search engine, shifthappens, social media, spezify, video, visualisation, visualisations | 1 Comment »
- D’log :: blogging since 2000 » Spezify – “Spezify has just launched with an impressive and different take on delivering search results. It’s primarily a visual search-engine aimed at designers and creatives, but also slips in relevant text and audio links”. Wow. This is nice
- blip.tv (beta) – You can upload videos to blip.tv using FTP and if the connection drops out then you can resume (within 10 mins). This may be useful when working somewhere with a potentially iffy connection
- Shift Happens by Mark Ball – “In January I was privileged to be invited to Perth by the Department of Culture and the Arts to participate as a Major Production Fund panel member and to meet with arts organisation to discuss the potential opportunities brought about by the rapid proliferation of Web 2.0 technologies, in particular Social Media tools”. Mark Ball, ex of Fierce and the RSC, now of LIFT talks arts and social media
- Chart: Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online – Plotting creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators and inactives across the generations. Not perfect, but interesting
- Melonz Magazine – Produced by 3rd year media students at Birmingham City Uni. There should be some actual real life copies around Birmingham somewhere
Posted: July 8th, 2009 | Author: Chris | Filed under: Links | Tags: blogs, bsmc, chrisanderson, ebook, Free, opensource, player, software, thomasmoronic, tuttle, video, vlc, writing | No Comments »
- VideoLAN – Open Source multimedia and streaming solutions – The only media player you’ll ever need (although you may want others). It loads quickly and plays everything and has just been released in it’s first proper full version
- FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson – The manifesto for making money by giving stuff away. True to form Anderson’s put the book online for free via Scribd
- Thomas Moronic – There’s just something very cohesive and unfussy about the layout of this blog, especially the ordering of the sidebar. When you spend your time reading RSS feeds you miss seeing the content in the context it was (most likely) intended. I’ve followed Thomas’s writings for a while, inherited when I nabbed Pete Ashton’s OPML file for CiB but rediscovered the blog itself when looking for examples of good writers’ blogs to point to
- Socialreporter – Crowds, tribes, teams: Tuttle turns to consulting – Interesting business model this. Tuttle is the name of a weekly social media get-together in London (from which the format for the Birmingham Social Media Cafe was lifted pretty directly) – “Tuttle has been going very well, and has now spawned The Tuttle Team. This is an innovative consulting approach to discover and understand client needs using a process of refinement through three forms”