A quick note of an established Arts web site starting an overhaul project. Their intention is to improve both visual design and user experience over a three month period. This is being done in a very open way by asking members of their community what they would want.
Its a good idea to do this - [...]...
I’d like to introduce you to :
http://www.dwaynetucker.com/blog/
It is the blog of Dwayne DC Tucker II who is very passionate about advertising, design and photography.
Its a simple blog - Dwayne updates it with a nice combination of personal chat and useful photography tips. Dwayne comes to problems in photography with a point of view that includes [...]...
I’ve recently been involved in the creation of a new website.
It’s called Larpbook and although at an early stage you may find it a worthwhile look.
The purpose of Larpbook is to provide a place for people involved in the LARP hobby to share information. To exchange news, pictures and videos. In effect it is [...]...
This time we’re talking about where and how to write for the Internet.
Well where is easy - any where you feel comfortable. It really is that simple. When you are writing for the Internet you need to write material that is personal, passionate, contemporary and compelling. This sounds like an impossible combination. It’s not. To [...]...
Often when I mention projects it sounds as if something has been heavily planned. Maybe a little over thought and a little too aware of itself.
This really does not have to be the case.
Last week The Cabarazzi hit the news with an exhibition of photographs hosted in North London. The pictures which are really [...]...
Ok so you want to write online. It’s not an uncommon desire. In fact blogging has become one of the most popular of activities taking place on the Internet. I don’t want to restrict myself to blogging though. I want to look at the concept of publishing online. This can be fiction, non-fiction, newsletters, newspapers. [...]...
I’m going to mention a project right at the very start of its life and I’m wishing it the very best of luck.
It’s called the Mindmunity and it is a blog dedicated to the creation of a community of like minded individuals sharing and improving ideas.
The Mindmunity team have put together a fun [...]...
We speak here of writing, film and other media, but I’ve been taking a look at a blog that speaks about design. Design tends to sit about and when its good - we hardly notice it, when its great - we go “Way Cool”, and when its bad we tend to gripe. Yet despite the [...]...
Ok things have been a bit quiet on Projects recently. I apologize for any inconvenience. To make up for this here are few thoughts on the nature of broadcast.
I cannot help to see the rise of personal broadcast. These thoughts have been brought on by a culmination of experiences. I think these are important [...]...
I’m just going to spent a moment pointing out an interesting little video project in South Wales.
Based around TRAC2 (one of two community resource and activity centres in Torfaen) the Community Snapshot project aims to teach people basic use of video camera’s and PCs through the medium of making short film(s) about the community.
The [...]...
New car via Nermal April 12th, 2008 at 09:55
It’s not every day you have to write the insurance details of the guy who hit the back of you on the back of your invoice from the garage which has the same date on it…...
There comes a point in many creative projects when everything seems to come to a halt. It is a totally languid time. We’ve hit it a few times in the making of Consumed and we’re in such a time at the moment. It seems to go a little like this.
When things take a long time [...]...
10 days ago I announced the Eggy Challenge, and now it is time to announce the results, but first a few discoveries I made along the way.
Last year we focused on amateur videos from You Tube. This year there were videos, but I had a look around You Tube and one year on it is [...]...
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Welcome to the new nermal.org.
A few things have happened which prompted this change.
Firstly, a server failure and old backups (ahem) meant getting the site back up again would have involved quite a bit of hassle. Sites like xeroxblog.com will reappear in due course and I will port certain popular content over to the new site (like my integrated wifi laptop hack).
Secondly, and mainly, a lot of content on nermal.org was written quite a while ago and as such is no longer relevant and only serves as an audit trail of what I’ve done over the past 5 years.
In the future I’ll probably write more about what’s going on in the world and projects I’m working on rather than things that I do. Whether anyone reads it is another matter :)...
Time to mention a useful and free resource to all artists working in a digital medium. I am referring to the digital artists handbook. You can pick it up from:
http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/
The objective of the handbook is to be a source of valuable content that bridges the gaps between arts and various platforms and resources. The handbook [...]...
A friend of mine via the Shared Creation Facebook group mentioned Bewildering Stories, in fact he added a link to a story of his that you can read here. I hope you enjoy it, and I should mentioned that this author is always up for a creative challenge.
I would go and talk about Cheshire, but [...]...
They in this case are the people with money.
If you review the postings in Shared Creation Projects you will notice some links to Idealo at the end of a number of posts. These are advertisements bought by Idealo for their price comparison site. When I was approached by Idealo - I looked at their site [...]...
I’m going to give you a quick introduction to UK Fan films which can be found at
http://www.ukfanfilms.com/
Running for several years now this site provides a place for fans of film making and fan productions to chat about their interest and exchange information.
I’m going spend some time in UK Fan Films and may report more in the [...]...
In the past I’ve mentioned a lot of free software - be it freeware or open source. Most of it has been the latest thing - just out and hoping for the best, occasionally I give an update on something older and more established. Mostly this qualifies as news and goes into the magazine.
This time [...]...
I torn as to whether this should be a news post in the magazine or here in the Projects section. I figured that what I’m about to talk about only grows and exists so long as it is worked on - so its a project.
A Shared Creation group now exists on Facebook. It’s purpose is [...]...
Something of a departure here. It’s probably not going to be what you expect.
I’d like you to take a look a Yew Tree Farm - a house renovation project; and now I can hear you cry this is Shared Creation - Not Grand Designs! Well that’s true, but this is why I want you take [...]...
Earlier today I was invited to take part in Age Concerns Time Capsule Project. The work was all in aid of the United Nations International Day of Older People. The plan was for a meeting of old and new minds. My job was to assist people in making entries to the Time Capsule.
And it is [...]...
Surely that should be (as anyone who has watched the BBC series knows), Torchwood manipulating us (whilst chasing after dubious trysts).
Well no, as it all has to do with the roll out with the third video blog dedicated to the long running saga that is the making of the Consumed movie. I will explain.
At the [...]...
This morning, just before I woke up, I had a dream that my Wikipedia page was up for deletion, and that I was making the case for keeping it by saying that 83 pages had linked to it and that it's bad form to wilfully rot links.
I woke up somewhat bemused by my dream, but couldn't resist checking to see if my Wikipedia page is still there. It is, but only just - it's been marked for deletion, you see. (And it only has about six pages linking to it. I just had to check that, too.)
I don't see anything psychic in this as it was marked for deletion - or, as they put it, merging with the Open Rights Group page - on 17 August but my psyche never bothered to mention it until this morning. Maybe the ether's got really bad latency. Anyway, Betsy Devine spoke up on my behalf saying that the stub...
Ok it’s time to let you know what I think about my discoveries. The quest was to find a way of representing yourself online - especially if you happen to create a lot of feeds own more than one web page, or just happen to be particularly hooked on web space use.
The traditional; places to [...]...
The South Wales Echo are up to their usual tricks again. Clearly the journalist who wrote this article is not a rights or technology specialist.
Todays “shocker” is that somebody has been allowed to create a group on the popular social networking website Facebook that is offensive to a particular individual.
Dubbed the ‘Gemma Trigg Cheap Tart Club’, the group was created by the wife of a man that Ms Trigg allegedly got involved with. Obviously, she thinks that this is below the belt, but, cheap tart or not, the view of Ms Trigg, and evidently of the Echo, having chosen to publish the story and tell it from her perspective, is that Facebook should not have allowed the group to be created in the first place.
“I was shocked that … Facebook would allow them...
I blame Lloyd for this morning's game of Mornington Crescent on Twitter. I don't think that everyone could see every player - Lloyd has some people that I didn't see, and I know I had some that he couldn't see, and there were some players that I tried to follow but Twitter wouldn't show me their tweets... so all a bit of a mess, really. But still the best 20 minutes of the day, frankly.
LloydDavis omg @bowbrick that gives me an idea - Mornington Crescent on Twitter
LloydDavis So I'll start with my usual opening local gambit of *Pimlico*
bowbrick @lloyddavis I think you night be on to something. And with GPS you could play with real locations!
bowbrick Duke Street
LloydDavis some strikingly pedestrian moves so far. time to stir things up with a couple of blue tokens at *Lancaster......
I’ve just been playing with a very cool method of creating a personal website. It is the Wetpaint Wiki.
This is one of the easiest and quickest methods that I’ve found to create a web page. Working from a basic template site navigation is easy to create. The page editor is extremely easy to use - [...]...
Normally I’d mention a tool or product over in the blog - the magazine and journal. However I’ve just discovered Wetpaint and it applies very directly to my personal portal project. So here it goes..
Wetpaint is a WIKI designed to help build community sites about- well anything of the site creators choosing. The results [...]...
I’ve been experimenting using the Yahoo Pipes Mashup too. The results are interesting and can be seen if you click here.
So this is a simple combination of all the Shared Creation feeds and my personal feeds from Robart and Flickr. So it is very much a personal view of my content on the web rather. [...]...
