Posted in marketing, media, web development on August 5th, 2008 No Comments »
So at the beginning of July I sat down with web copywriter Ellen de Vries to refine some copy for a project I’m working on (more on that later). She asked me a series of questions that we attempted to answer together, in order to refine the ideas I want to present and produce some [...]
Posted in events, marketing, media, workshops on May 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
Last night was a lot of fun, thanks to everyone for coming to an indoor event when there was such lovely weather and a beach so close by!
I am much happier with the results this time: the time I spent revising the concepts really paid off. I managed to explain the key points in less [...]
Posted in events, media, workshops on April 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Hello all you feedreaders (from the last workshop?) + site visitors,
I’m repeating my workshop on Thursday May 8th at The Werks in Hove. Hopefully it will be much improved based on what I learned last time! Its been quite an interesting time since I did it: a few different parties/organisations have expressed an interest in [...]
Posted in art, events, marketing, media on March 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
Big thanks to everyone who came along last night: the weather was really dreadful (extra cake for you lot next time)! For those who attended: a PDF of my slides (9 mb), and the page of exercise links.
I think the event went pretty well: the feedback was positive from geeks and non-geeks alike.
My favourite moment [...]
Posted in media, politics on July 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
The recent riot over at digg got me thinking again about the role of the media in our society.
The articles on digg.com only hit the front page if they’ve been submitted+voted there by the users. Digg presents quite a threatening, democratic model to ‘old’ media. This doesn’t mean there’s no editorial influence, it just means [...]