Clare Greene
All teh radio silence has been down to preparing for Clare Greene’s show tonight - I know I should have posted this earlier. How could I forget the blog as a marketing tool?
Clare has a fascinating painterly technique. She sketches by hand, she then sketches the same objects and figures using Paintbox and she then […]
A Few Questions About Art
This is an embarrassingly unassertive post. I’m hoping to get a handle on the range of exhibition options artists are using - I mean for the most part new media artists. Of course there is the screen, the projector, and there is the website and the blog, but I came across this today and wondered […]
Turnaround Time
It’s time this blog went in another direction. From now on it will be New Media Art - and the sooner I can fix the header image the better.
The blog has addressed many convergence issues - new types of content, new ways of making audio-visual content, and of displaying it, but that’s run its course.
Why […]
Quero Search For Networked Future
I caught this below by way of the lewispr blog.
“The European Union’s competition watchdog has approved the use of €99m (£76m) of French state aid for a consortium attempting to build an internet search engine to take on Google.
The Quaero project is a coalition of 23 companies led by French technology giant Thomson.”
It originated in […]
Pluck’s Blogging $50 million
This from CNET:
Demand Media, an aggregator of specialized Web sites, has acquired social-networking software company Pluck, according to the company.
CNET describes Pluck as a supplier of social-networking software to media companies such as USA Today and Fox….
My recollection was they ran blogburst, a blog syndicator to newspapers. They pulled in some top names.
Now Demand plans […]
The Broadband Movie Channel (s)
From a press release yesterday:
Babelgum, the new interactive web TV portal, has released all entries to the Babelgum Online Film Festival onto its platform for public voting.”
Be interesting to see how far the public get involved.
“The festival introduces a huge variety of professionally produced short films. Over a thousand entries from 86 countries are available […]
Where are the Ads Going
When I check my adsense account I’m always surprised by the gap ebtween what these must cost and what I get.
Here’s some data drawn from a recent conference: - 50% of the UK’s 28.3 million Net users shop online. 40% of all online ads are now accessed through search technology. And, according to a […]
Broadband and Those Innovations
This strikes me as a good use of broadband. The story circulated last year but the film is now ready for release. I’ve taken this verbatim from the publicity for The Objective, a Dan Myrick film, due out soon.
“When Dan Myrick and the producers from JAZ films sent out a world-wide internet casting notice, […]
Broadband Claims, A Little Dubious
Charles Leadbeater writing in the Observer Sunday believes broadband access is our most potent way to promote democracy. The article was also a page long ad promoting Charle’s book, We Think. We Think is an extended essay on content co-creation and Charles consults on these issues.
“In time even top-down public services will feel the power […]
Waxy Worst of List
Waxy.org had this list of Web’s Worst from the interactive festival SWSX.
“Smart people dare to be stupid in a contest between nine writers, designers and engineers - each pitching their worst possible startup ideas in lightning rounds. Winner gets funded by delusional VCs.”
These two stood out. I’ll tell you which one won in a […]