Tag Archives: creativity

Non-techies: New Media needs YOU!

Non-techies: New Media needs YOU!

We still tend to class new media / social media / web projects as being about “technology”, and I’m starting to get fed up of it. It’s especially bad at conferences – people are always talking about the tools as if they’re the only thing that’s important.
Our industry is no more about technology than filmmaking [...]

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Not From Concentrate: Continuing where 4Talent Networks left off

Not From Concentrate: Continuing where 4Talent Networks left off

One victim of C4’s recent cuts was 4Talent Networks. This was a shame for me – I felt they’d done some amazing things over the years, not least the magazine which was always brilliantly produced. Some of the team were colleagues of mine and I was always impressed with the quality of their work and [...]

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Home of Metal – The future of curation?

Home of Metal – The future of curation?

Home Of Metal – Family Tree by Francesca Bunny Wiliams
Birmingham’s Capsule have a mighty interesting project on the go right now:
The ‘Home Of Metal‘ project aims to create a digital archive of everything heavy metal from the 60s to now. An online library of images, interviews, stories and various pieces of memorabila dedicated to telling [...]

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Young people are now even becoming scared of each other. What can digital do about it?

This article really depressed me.
Not only is the media making adults needlessly scared of teenagers, it’s having an impact on the teenagers themselves – they’re now becoming scared of each other.
Figures show more than half of the stories about teenage boys in national and regional newspapers in the past year (4,374 out of 8,629) were [...]

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