West Midlands digital links round-up, 2 August 2010
by Chris Unitt on August 2nd, 2010 in Links
Thanks to everyone who came along on Friday – the next event is on Friday 27 August 2010. Listings and info will be online shortly. In the meantime, here’s a (slightly later than intended) news/links round-up:
- DCMS – Review of Arm’s Length Bodies – “A number of our public bodies are set to be merged, abolished or streamlined”. The UK Film Council and Museums, Libraries and Archives Council will be abolished
- Healthy, leisurely scraping at Hacks and Hackers Hack Day Birmingham | Scraperwiki Data Blog – “Health, education and leisure centre data came under scrutiny from Birmingham programmers and journalists at last Friday’s Hacks and Hackers Hack Day”
- Wired – New theatre crowdsources plot in real-time – “‘Tuning Out With Radio Z’ is a unique theatrical event asks audience members to bring a phone or a laptop to write text, send ideas, submit images and make requests to influence the action unfolding on stage”
- ICT Excellence Awards 2010 – Here are the application forms. Closing date is 1 October 2010
- Birmingham Post – Roger Shannon: Vital regional support for film must continue – Roger Shannon musing on the UKFC’s imminent disappearance
- The Stirrer • UK Film Council axed – what future for Screen WM? – And, for balance, here are some opposing views on the subject
- Library branding work that rewrites the book | klm – KLM have done the branding for the new Birmingham library
- MEDIA Mundus (2011 – 2013) – UK MEDIA Team – “MEDIA Mundus is the European Commission’s new international co-operation programme. It will provide €15 million of funding from 2011-2013 for projects which strengthen cultural and commercial relations in the audiovisual industry between Europe and professionals of non-European countries”
- ORB Creative Refurnish JHS Online Presence | ORB Creative – New work from ORB
- FLUID – Brief Encounters – Fluid’s work on the PlayStation Media Kit gets four pages in Computer Arts
- #davethedog — Substrakt – Andy introduces the latest and, arguably, the cutest member of the Substrakt team
Got any news that we missed? Add it in the comments or tweet it to @BirminghamSMC.
