The Heritage Lottery Fund have released a report called Digital Participation and Learning: 22 Case Studies. The case studies are intended to: illustrate a wide range of approaches to using digital media to engage people with culture and heritage And these are they: * ArtBabble (Indianapolis Museum of Art) * Chester: Revealing

Thoora is a service for aggregating a bunch of information around a topic. It combines automatic discovery with human curation. In their words, it’s: a new way for you to discover, monitor, and share the best of the web: by creating living bodies of knowledge on the topics you

I’ve used this analogy a few times in various chats, meetings, steering groups and so on over the past few years and thought I should probably commit it to blog: Collaboration’s like marriage. Before getting wed it’s a good idea to go on a few dates Of

This topic has come up so many times recently – in the past couple of months it’s been raised at the AMA Conference, at the ACE/NESTA Digital Day in Birmingham and at the Art of Digital London meet-up. It’s obvious why. The word on the street is that

I met Rowan Rutter, a producer with the Bureau of Silly Ideas, the other day. She happened to mention how it’d be nice to be sent an online artistic or cultural thing she could interact with at her desk over lunch. I quite liked the idea and asked Twitter

Just a quick note to thank the folks from Art of Digital: London and The Photographers’ Gallery for, respectively, organising and hosting last night’s event which was a discussion about digital economic models. There was an interesting spread of people there, from individual artists to people working at RFOs.

Nicely expressed in Rachel Coldicutt’s write-up of her Edgelands talk: The Arts is a system that needs all the help it can get. It’s an infrastructure that needs trustworthy services to make businesses run and deliver services to patrons. Rather than making innovative ticketing systems, brand new video-streaming

I’m putting a bit more effort into this website. Its purpose has drifted back and forth over the past five years and most of the time it’s served as an ad-hoc dumping ground for things I wanted to publish but couldn’t find a home for elsewhere. There’

I got a new laptop when I joined Made Media and spent a happy evening going through all the applications I’d downloaded to my old laptop, only installing  the ones that would actually be of use to me. This is really another of those posts intended to serve as

Nick Booth has tagged me in one of those posts where you answer a bunch of questions and pass the honour on to a few others. The acceptable(ish) face of chain letters, if you like. This one’s called My 7 Links. Nick says it’s not the kind