Chris Unitt

I got back from SXSWi yesterday. I’ve got notes to write up about the various sessions I went to (the good ones at least) but for now: * It was good. Not revelatory, but definitely worthwhile * Sitby.us was a great iPhone friendly tool, much better than the official app.

Opened it and read it… No, Talk Talk, you utter sods. I’ve been frustratingly disconnected from your service (which I continue to pay for) for over three months now. Repeated phonecalls trying to sort the issue have only wasted my time further. So don’t email me to claim

I’m taking part in the F2 Digital Creative Development Programme being run out of the Institute for Creative Enterprise in Coventry. The other participants are creative types from a diverse range of disciplines – curators, dancers, website and graphic designers, filmmakers and all sorts. There are about 20 of us

* Welcome to MotherApp – Create mobile apps on all major mobile platforms * The Poster Cause Project – “Each month we will release a very limited print by a different artist with 50% of profits going to a specific charity or organization chosen by us or the artist.”

I’ve two aims for the next week – avoid overeating and catch up on some of the stuff that’s lost out to my recent work/life imbalance. Books For as long as I can remember I’ve been halfway through Homicide, Trickster Makes This World and Spies. Quite why

I stayed at the lighthouse at St Anthony Head. This one: It was ace. The weather was very unDecemberish and we saw a seal playing in the water.

What do you reckon sells best: * Good quality stuff with zero marketing; or * Well marketed dross? I’m sure we’d all like to convince ourselves it’s the former. However, the idea that ‘the good will out’ puts me in mind of the routinely rubbished concept that ‘if you

* YouTube – TAT augmented ID – With a mobile device and face recognition software from Polar Rose, Augmented ID enables you to discover selected information about people around you * Podcast | dConstruct 2009 – “All the sessions at dConstruct 2009 have been recorded and are being delivered via the magic of podcasting” * Mockingbird – “an

Happy times on Saturday when the first magazine from my new subscription dropped onto the doormat. I signed up for this a few weeks ago but didn’t know quite what I’d be getting – instead I’m letting the nice people at Stack decide. The Ride is lovely – printed

This meme was swiped from the blog of Russ L. Here are the instructions: 1. Grab the nearest book; 2. Open it to page 56; 3. Find the fifth sentence; 4. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions; and 5. Don’t dig for your favourite book,