Edinburgh's Hogmanay: 'Big Bang' on 1 January 2013 #blogmanay
One element of Edinburgh's Hogmanay festival is often a piece of street theatre designed to capture the audience's imagination, provide a spectacle and some encourage some re-imagining of the city as a cultural, creative space. Some of Edinburgh's...
The Future of (Book) Festivals: West Port Book Festival, 26 November 2012
A trip to Inspace is always a treat ??? they put on a series of events that are broad in their scale, ambition, range and content, yet always intimate. Back in November I went along to an event which was being produced as part of the West Port Book ...
Dr Simon Gage: Edinburgh Napier University, 27 September 2012
Back in September we welcomed Dr Simon Gage to Edinburgh Napier University, part of a rolling series of public talks by the directors of Edinburgh's foremost festivals and other guest speakers. Simon heads up the Edinburgh International Science Fe...
Culture Hack Scotland (#chscot) and Citizen Relay (#citizenrelay): on events and projects and communities and networks
Here are some notes on two projects I???ve recently been involved with ??? shame on me for not getting this onto the blog before now. On consecutive weekends I attended Culture Hack Scotland (Glasgow) and Citizen Relay training (Edinburgh). From Cultu...
Lecturer as shoemaker.
As today's guest lecturer from the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab is unable to join TSM10107 and me (due to a dental emergency not conducive with public speaking) I'm using the blog to plan, set out and run an alternative session. Why shoemake...
Digital Audience Development, courtesy of Inner Ear.
It was very good to see a large audience for the 2011 'Digital Audience Development' session at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Run by Inner Ear Ltd. again on Thursday 4 August, this was the second time I've seen them present ideas and case studies ...
In response to Eli Pariser and online 'filter bubbles'.
In The Observer on Sunday 12 June, Eli Pariser sets out a vision of the web which is heavily influenced by the information we submit each time we visit a site, carry out a Google search and otherwise give away a little bit more of ourselves and ou...
Edinburgh Festivals' far-reaching impact revealed
video platform video management video solutions video player via festivalsedinburgh.com Edinburgh has the best evaluated festivals: yesterday saw the publication of a major impact assessment report on Edinburgh's twelve main festivals (those who m...
SXSW 2011: The internet is over | The Guardian
via guardian.co.uk This article (click the guardian.co.uk link above) was punted my way by Bob (legendary friend from school days of yore, you remember Bob?). It's an optimistic view of our online future, principally seen from the user's perspecti...
#EdTwestival: bringing it all together.
Yesterday was Twestival, in cities across the globe. I've written about my involvement in Edinburgh's Twestival before, so a quick follow up post is in order.First up, here's the event's site: http://edinburgh.twestival.com/The big numbers: over 3...