There are some very good infographics out there but most are rubbish. No surprises there – that’s Sturgeon’s Law for you. They’re also very popular at the moment, with otherwise respectable people spewing the good and (more often) the bad into my RSS reader and Twitter stream. Although I think this one by lunchbreath has a lot to […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
Coders and culture
Over the past few years there have been more and more funded projects that have tried to team up developers and cultural organisations. Australia Council for the Arts have run two versions of their Geek in Residence scheme since 2009. Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab recruited their own geek in residence in mid-2010. Hack days (events where […]
Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture, analysis of applications
NESTA and Arts Council England recently commissioned a bunch of projects via the Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture, aiming to connect arts and cultural organisations with technology companies in a way that can benefit the wider sector. Hoorah to that. They had £500k to dish out to a handful of organisations. A grand total of […]