Unlit in Birmingham

I had an email in the week about a little gig/party that someone was going to be hosting at their house – part of the (mobile phone sponsored) Unlit tour that has been making it’s way around the country for the past month.  It sounded interesting so last night, after some Arstfest-related fun, I popped […]

Better living through commenting

Not many people, percentagely-speaking, comment on blogs.  A bit of Jakob Nielsen research showed that: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. I write a lot of blog posts every week and it’s nice […]

Organising a film competition

I’m not quite sure what I’ve got myself involved in here. I was chatting to Carl from Made Media a couple of weeks ago.  He makes short films from time to time and aparrently, when he was living in Sheffield, he took part in a few little competitions – 24 hours to make a short […]