A couple of starting points this month. Firstly, ‘Assembly’ is an installation by Kimchi and Chips. There’s a fuller description of it on the Creative Applications Network but, for the purposes of this blog, here’s a video: Meanwhile, Leila Johnston’s post about Making Things Fast was quite

Alan D Mutter on Why ‘future of journalism’ confabs fail: After recently attending the latest in the never-ending series of “future of journalism” conferences, I finally realized why they all fail:  They don’t include the right people. While these well-intended yakfests are rich in whining and dining ops, journo-futuramas

From a post titled Offline Storytelling for Online Scanners by Karina who works at Big Spaceship: Most of what we do can be classified as digital – which means we’re telling stories in the very environment that has spawned so many Scanners. Our stories live in a “place” that cannot

I went to Art of Digital London’s get-together at The Photographers’ Gallery last night, with a bunch of speakers presenting their work and thoughts on the topic of  multi/trans/cross-media productions (the rule is you can call it what you like as long as you immediately apologise and

From an interview with Louis CK: In show business, when you really have a career that takes a while, you don’t get those big moments. You don’t get those “Oh my God, it’s me” things. You get the call—“You’re playing Carnegie Hall”—and then you

Recently, there’s been more than the average level of moaning about how Twitter isn’t what it used to be. The moaners being the tech-savvy crowd who adopted the service early on. They’re not keen on how Twitter’s selling itself to the mass market. Anil Dash has

I think the best thing I’ve seen in the past month has been Touchy, a human camera. It’s: a phenomenological social interaction experiment that focuses on the relationship of giving and receiving by literally transforming a human into a camera. Touchy, (the person wearing the device) is blind