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    Me and Adrian at Yahoo! Brickhouse tonight

    Cross-posted from the Six to Start blog:
    Sorry for the rather short notice on this one - Adrian and I will be speaking tonight (6pm to 8pm) at Yahoo! Brickhouse: We Told Stories: Dan and Adrian Hon (Six to Start) on ARGs & storytelling online .
    Learn about how leading alternate reality game studio Six to Start […]


    Too Expensive

    “[x] is too expensive for us now that he’s internet famous. We just can’t afford the memes. We’ve run out of cats to caption and he’s taken all our buckets. They’re his buckets now.”


    M gets to play with a multi-touch UI/Surface on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

    M gets to play with a multi-touch UI/Surface on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
    The trailer for Quantum of Solace has a second or so worth of M and co standing around a multi-touch table. I can’t believe I missed that the first time I watched it. I love movie user interfaces.


    The Wrong Way

    Right now, it takes a lot of effort for me to write something for this website. There’s quite a lot going on in my life: I’m running a successful startup, and this weekend I’m moving house. My delicious stream goes some way in getting out to the rest of the world what I’m interested in, […]


    Royal Television Society - ‘Going Round In Circles’

    Rough transcript of the RTS event ‘Going Round In Circles’
    Royal Television Society - Early Evening Events
    8 May 2008: ‘Going Round In Circles’
    Why Is 360 Commissioning The Future of Television? Sponsored by DLA Piper
    Speakers
    Danny Cohen
    Controller, BBC Three
    Roger Graef OBE
    CEO, Films of Record
    Peter Cowley
    Managing Director of Digital Media - Endemol UK
    Chair: Janine Gibson
    Editor-in-Chief, MediaGuardian
    360 degree commissioning has […]


    SPOT, play dead!

    Via Ian Betteridge, Davey Winder covers the news that Microsoft’s SPOT Watches are dead.
    I wrote about SPOT a good five years ago, and one of the things I had to say was:
    So, SPOT’s not hot. It’s lukewarm. Or tepid. It’s definitely not hot. It definitely doesn’t allow the kind of recombination that developers are dying […]


    Wordpress 2.5 annoyances

    Suddenly treating categories as actual categories, and treating tags as actual tags when I’ve been using categories as tags all this while, thus forcing me to have to contemplate redoing my templates. NOT COOL.


    Music to calm minds by

    I put out a general distress call on Twitter the other day: “Recommendations for music that will calm the mind?”
    In the interests of sharing a beneficial resource, I hereby present my Twitter follower’s Music To Calm Minds By (not available in the shops, etc.):

    Bach (in general, and also specifically oboe concertos and the Brandenburg concertos)
    Boards […]


    Bafta Voting

    From their latest membership newsletter, sent out today:
    In light of the demand for Film voting places, we ask current members to consider the Awards ceremonies they currently vote in, and to vote only in those Awards in which they feel qualified to do so by virtue of their professional experience. Members […]


    Draft-but-published: BAFTA! Tough Love

    This is an unfinished draft post (if The Triforce can do it, then I can too) in response to the news that BAFTA are tweaking their videogames awards.
    Because this is an unfinished draft, it’s slightly more poorly researched than normal and lacking in links. Many paragraphs probably just trail off or contain placeholders.
    The file has […]


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