Archive for 'Articles'

Networking admin: Phew.

1988: Meet someone new. Get a business card, write a bit of info on the back of it. Put it in the Rolodex. 2008: Meet someone new. Get a business card, write a bit of info on the back of it. Add to Google Mail Contacts. Add to various groups in Google Mail Contacts. Email [...]

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Screen West Midlands are looking for someone to develop an Innovation, New Markets and Skills Strategy

Sorry – very late with this (deadline is on Thursday)! There’s a fascinating sounding project up for grabs at our local West Midlands screen agency. The strategy will include clear objectives for Screen WM to: Profile the region as a UK centre of digital screen media activity Deliver integrated business development support in partnership with [...]

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The Social Innovation Camp

This looks interesting.. "What happens when you get a bunch of hackers and social innovators together, give them a set of social problems and only 48 hours to solve them? In London between 4th-6th April 2008, the Social Innovation Camp will bring together some of the best of the UK and Europe’s web developers and [...]

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Future of Web Apps: 4Talent Article

I had the pleasure of attending the mighty Future of Web Apps late last year on behalf of 4Talent. The article’s now online (finally!). Really looking forward to the next one (and hoping I can stay longer next time).

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4Talent: Serious Virtual Worlds

Last week I caught the last afternoon of the Serious Virtual Worlds conference in Coventry. Here’s a short piece I wrote on the conference for 4Talent.

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4Talent Podcast: New Media 4Casts – Get a Great Website

As you may know I’m currently producing a five-month series of podcasts for 4Talent (previously known as Channel4 Ideasfactory). The show is looking at how the internet and new online communities can be used by creative individuals and small companies. We’ve just finished the second show and I thought I’d post a preview up here [...]

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Live Webcasting: The Next User Generated Phenomenon?

This article will appear on the Channel4 Ideasfactory website later on in November. In the wake of Google’s acquisition of web wunderkind YouTube, everyone’s looking for the next big Internet phenomenon to push things forward again. And once we have the technology to make it available to all, argues Antonio Gould, live webcasting could be [...]

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Online Communities for Creative People

This article will be published in the forthcoming edition of TEN4 magazine. One of the Internet’s biggest success stories in recent years has been the rise and rise of online communities – sites that allow anyone, technically able or not, to communicate with each other and publish their own content. Many of these websites centre [...]

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Some Interesting New Projects

I have quite a few exciting new projects on the go at the moment: Digital Central Interactive Media As an industry representative, I’m working with Dave Harte to brainstorm ideas around and put together a network (as yet undefined in structure) which will help to deliver the Interactive Media arm of this new project. I’ll [...]

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Plyometrics through Paypal

This is the rough draft of an article I’ve written for the next issue of TEN4 magazine. I’d like to know what people think about this subject and of the article. All comments appreciated as usual! Thanks to Dan O’Connell for the interesting title. — Plyometrics through Paypal Digitalization has profoundly altered the creative industries. [...]

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