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3rd Party IP Workshop

July 14, 2009 from 9am to 12pm – TRC media/Channel 4
BBC Multi-Platform Awareness workshops

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Brothers McLeod Q&A and Screening

July 25, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8pm – Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
TechMeetup Edinburgh

August 12, 2009 from 6:30pm to 9pm – Floor 8, Appleton Tower
International Symposium for Electronic Arts

August 23, 2009 at 6pm – Waterfront Hall Belfast
Tweet Tweet

August 27, 2009 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm – The Lighthouse
Write Well on the Web - advanced

October 6, 2009 from 9am to 1pm – The Lighthouse
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November 3, 2009 from 9am to 5pm – The Lighthouse
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November 13, 2009 to November 14, 2009 – Dundee

Guardian Tech

Domestic wind turbines could 'power 800,000 UK homes'

System failure?

£8,000 projector is indie cinema's future

Google's new OS aims to show Windows the door

Digital Britain? We haven't even got decent digital radio

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N. Ireland Screen

BBC XM25 Scheme now open

4iP and UnLtd launch new funding package

Screen South recruiting Business & Operations Manager

Ultra Low-Budget Fiction winner "Wee Buns" now in prep

Carol Moore's short in Russian competition

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While Sacks Plays Poker, Yammer Burns

New URL Shortener Is Kind Of Cool, Kind Of Defeats The Point

Gnip Launches Push API To Create Real-Time Stream Of Business Data

TokBox Fires 50% Of Engineering Team, All Founders Gone

Multi-Platform Media Sync Software DoubleTwist Gains “Hundreds Of Thousands Downloads”, Is Now Available in Japan

Someone At Apple Has A Sense Of Humor

Location Now Built-In To Google Maps — In Chrome And Firefox

It’s Official (Kind Of): People Prefer the Kindle

Speeding Up RSS

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38mintues, the place to debate social & philsophical themes regarding the digital media world! If you're new or returning after a while away, make sure you check out the blog archives and discussions taking place in various groups and you can also follow us on twitter!

Blogs & Discussions: MA in Creative Media Practice at UWS • Art of digital, and sustainable ability • Mypolice meets Calum Steele • Matchlight on Hulu • More...

Upcoming Events: Digital Rights and Wrongs & 3rd Party IP Workshop - Tuesday July 14th - Glasgow • BBC Multi-Platform Awareness workshops - London - Wednesday July 15 • International Symposium for Electronic Arts - Sunday August 23rd - Belfast • More...

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THE CREATIVE BUSINESS: A FREE ONLINE RESOURCE IN 12 MODULES

The Creative Business is a series of 12 modules of information about developing creative enterprises, written especially for people running businesses in the creative industries.

http://blog.davidparrish.com/tshirts_and_suits/2009/07/the-creative-business-12-modules.html

The information is particularly relevant to creative businesses and cultural enterprises in the fields of Advertising, Literature and Publishing, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Design, Cultural Heritage, and Crafts.

Dav… Continue

Posted by David Parrish on July 9, 2009 at 8:51pm

TV Broadcasting in Northern Ireland

To quote from Sean O'Casey's 'The Plough and the Stars', TV Broadcasting in Northern Ireland is "in a state of chasis". But don't take my word for it - here are the reports to the House of Commons inquiry by the NI Select Committeee. The submissions by independent producers and the NUJ make sad reading on the state of the industry here - particularly in relation to the lack of commissions from network broadcasters.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmniaf/memo/television… Continue

Posted by Una Murphy on July 9, 2009 at 3:28pm — 2 Comments

Would you pay for Facebook?

The Guardian today reports on the Sun Valley conference in Idaho, where the big guns in digital media network, discuss industry issues, massage one another's egos and mumble about the evils of the press (presumably).

Twitter is said to be among the hot topics of the day and much debate circled around one key question:

Will users ever be willing to pay for sites like YouTube, Twitter & Facebook?

John Malone of Liberty Media thinks so, believing when we're hooked we're hooked. Rupert Murdoc… Continue

Posted by Nicola More on July 9, 2009 at 1:51pm — 6 Comments

Digital Media or Masonic Conspiracy?

A fascinating article in this week's Economist asks whether social media sites like LinkedIn are the new brotherhood, or whether older established networks and clubs still exert real power in business and government.

Un… Continue

Posted by Stuart Cosgrove on July 9, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Featured Member: George Falconer

George Falconer a project manager within Scottish Enterprise’s Digital Markets and Enabling Technologies team. For the last six years he worked with national partners to develop projects to suppo… Continue

Posted by Darcie on July 9, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Win a place at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Darcie, our wonderful site editor will shortly publish the pdf which accompanies this email. It contains details for the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network and UK Trade and Investment competition to win a place at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

On offer are five free places to showcase your solution or product in the UKTI stand in Barcelona from 15th to the 18th of February 2010.

Full details will be in the information sheet. If you have any questions or com… Continue

Posted by Scottish Enterprise on July 8, 2009 at 4:39pm — 1 Comment

Telly On Demand

Friday saw the official launch of the revitalised 4oD on Channel4.com. In addition to Catch-Up there are thousands of hours of Archive programmes from Comic Strip Presents to The Mark of Cain.

Over the we… Continue

Posted by Stuart Cosgrove on July 8, 2009 at 12:58pm — 7 Comments

Art of digital, and sustainable ability

BBC technology journalist Bill Thompson has written a great article "Giving Life a Shape" on how the arts can help us all think in new ways about digital. Bill mentions… Continue

Posted by Hannah Rudman on July 4, 2009 at 3:55pm

Mypolice meets Calum Steele

Yesterday I visited Calum Steele in a first round of interviews with the various organisations/bodies of the Police force. I was looking to get a thumbs up on the mypolice service and see if we can get the police working with us....

to read more or find out about who mypolice are go to… Continue

Posted by rufflemuffin on July 3, 2009 at 2:50pm

TinEye ...Find useful/valuable/disruptive applications

Hi

Just been talking to a company in Canada called Idee Inc.
http://blog.ideeinc.com/
They are looking to collaborate with some Scottish partners.

So have a look at the blog, sign up for the Beta of TinEye and see how you can use it?
And if you are interested in technologies regarding images and sight, or you have some novel ideas/ technologies you want to discuss let me know and we will start some visual communications.

And if you are a… Continue

Posted by Steve Harrison on July 3, 2009 at 12:41pm — 1 Comment

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Scottish Arts Council Open Funding Deadline The Scottish Arts Council offers both deadline and fast-track funding schemes across artforms to Individuals and organisations.
Deadline: July 13th, 2009

Touch Finance Competetion: Your challenge is to design and build an innovative branch-based personal banking.
Deadline: 12pm July 13th, 2009

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TRC media’s pioneering training programme for top creatives working in digital media production.
Deadline for Applications: Tuesday July 14th, 2009

Pixel Pitch: pitching forum for up to ten of the best UK and international cross-media film projects.
Submission Deadline: 14 August 2009 (18.00 BST)

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Seedcamp: Applications open July 7th-August 23rd

Featured Member: George Falconer

Read about our Featured Member, George Falconer of Scottish Enterprise.

Featured Group: Matchlight

Led by Ross Wilson, Matchlight is a network focused factual production company based in Glasgow. Established in the spring of 2009 our first production - The Exhumer - will be aired on Channel 4 in July. Join the Matchlight Group to stay up to date with the latest information.