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Video of a silent rave [VIDEO]
I've produced my first video in a while on the back of my limited contribution to an effort to stop a power station being built in my back yard. There's quite a lot of shaky cam and some of the shots are less than perfect, but I hope to have used some music and decent edits to carry off a decent package of what we were trying to achieve. Let me know what you think...
Talk About Local Unconference: a few (delayed) thoughts
Possibly a bit later than I would have hoped to have written this - I've been snowed under at work.
REVOLUTION. Conflict. Opportunities. Not exactly the words you expect to hear to describe a conference, particularly about a subject such as hyperlocal blogging.
But they were among the words used by speakers at the recent Talk About Local Unconference at Staffordshire University.
A tale of two conferences - part 1 of 2
In the past three days I've been to two conferences. One was the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference in Kensington, the second was the Talk About Local Unconference 2009 at Staffordshire University.
It's going to take a bit of time to write up so here's the first part, devoted to the first day at Fowa...
FOWA 2009 - the Future of Web Apps
There is nothing as inspirational as the story of success, or so goes the theory behind trade and business conferences.
Stoke's Top Talent: vote for your favourite act
Here's my first fully-fledged voting package built in Flash. I accept there are plenty of rough edges, but it works, which is the main thing.
Reading: The story is dead + other weblinks
THERE are two big questions in journalism today: what is journalism?; how will the profession be paid for? While Rupert Murdoch's paywall plans for News International have fuelled the debate on the second question, there are more, yet diverse, arguments on what constitutes journalism.