Today's randomness

To explain the posts below, Andrew Dubber and I are running a workshop with a group of ten or so people on Monday, which will pribably involve them using Posterous to share a load of content and blog their experiences of a work programme we'll be working on for the next 3 months.

We're aggregating all of these blogs into a tumblr, to create an overview of the whole project and to demonstratr another service while we're at it.

Or we might not.  The whole project is pretty organic and we might do something else completely.  That's why I like my job, I have no idea what we're going to dream up when we meet these guys and find out what they're up to, and Dubber is the man most likely to come up with something we haven't thought of our preapared that will be combination of ridicuolosuly simple and so obvious no one else thought of it.

Happy days.

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Having a meeting with Stuart

Discussing the merits of Posterous against Tumblr

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i can has (completely random) shiny? a bonus friday win for me

Out of the blue today, the professor dropped me off a shiny new imac.
that kind of wrote my friday off a little bit...

the transfer was surprisingly seemless (the only slight tricky was getting the university proxy to deactivate my cs3 on the old machine, then activate it on the new one)

inevitably some of the few staff in the building came to play with photobooth (pictured here while I assure the prof on the phone that we are working)

my old mac is now being passed to Jez - unfortunately both machine now think they have the same name, so I'll have to fix that Monday, generally speaking though a great day.

Loving my mighty mouse... was very worried about the keyboard (looks great thought it might actually be crap). It is actually lovely, although I so wish it was wireless

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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another test...

This is a test of a post channelled to both tumblr and my wordpress and blogger blogs

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Pushing from mobile to flickr via posterous

This is slightly long winded but i can now send to flickr and posterous in one shot. I can also update all my spaces all at once, so this will tweet and tumbl and blog too

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If my calculations are correct...

when this baby hits 88 miles an hour your going to see some serious sh*t

OK: this post will update my http://mediacommunity.wordpress.com/ and my http://urbandigital.blogspot.com/

but nowhere else.

all this generated by an email. sweet

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And now the end is near...

Well Urban Digital ended today (for now - we will be back!!!).

Time moves on and I am now a bit of a word press obsessive.

For that reason, I'm going to start putting together a bigger and better urban digital blog at http://mediacommunity.wordpress.com/

We'll keep playing with this blog of course, as we need a live demo of what we can do with blogger.

And strangely enough, I'll be encouraging my students to use Blogger more than Wordpress in the first instance as it's that slight bit simpler...

So this place will look quite neglected but we'll be back.

Happy blogging, happy designing and see you all next time Urban Digital is on.

Here we go again!

Urban Digital finally starts today.

In the morning, I'll be going over the tools you can use to get yourself up and running with a website that costs nothing, and is simple to use. We're going to look at some of the great tools that are out there like flickr, wordpress, blogger etc.

The full notes pack are posted below in an earlier blog, so if you miss out use the notes to try it for yourself.

In the afternoon Andy's film students will be getting to grips with their cameras for the first time

Good luck everyone!

Urban Digital is Back!

Urban Digital is running again from February to April 2008.
This year we are offering courses in both web design and film.

There is an open day to find out more at Handsworth Library on 31st Jan from 5pm - 7pm

Please come along if you want to get involved, or call Joan Henderson on 0121 464 1185