Paul McKeever, Managing Director of Front was one of about a dozen businesses from Northern Ireland who went to the Web 2.00 conference in San Francisco. In this podcast he talks about his impressions of the event.
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This edition of the podcast is from Barcamp Belfast held in the Art College this weekend. Almost 400 people signed up on the web site for what was billed as is “a user-generated unconference for designers, developers, startups and geeks to share and learn in an open environment”.
It’s organised almost entirely by Andy McMillan with the support of a few friends. Much bigger than first planned it moved from an intended smaller venue to occupy 2 floors in the Art College.
Davy Sims reports.
Here are some links to interviewees on the podcast:
Barcamp Belfast -
Andy McMillan -
Lee Munroe’s Blog -
Front -
Reva Health Presentation -
Bean and Gone Artisan Coffee -
Cupcake Camp NI -
4IP -
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Lee Munroe modestly describes himself as a 24 year old web designer from Belfast.
Like many emerging talents in web and interactive media he wants to put back into the design community through projects like webdesignire.com. He first came to the public eye with the Big Word Project which he built with Paddy Donnelly. There’s more in Wikipedia.
I met Lee at the Art College in Belfast where we kicked off talking about his latest project Lookaly.com.
One site we didn’t mention in the interview is Sponsor Lee . org http://sponsorlee.org/ . With a £2000 target Lee is running the London Marathon on 26 April to raise funds for Action for Kids.
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Kate Keys is Business Development Officer for the Arts Council for Northern Ireland. At a presentation in the Presidents Club in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, Kate outlined the Creative Industries Innovation Fund to a large and eagar audience.
The fund is administered by the Arts Council for Northern Ireland and is open to all creative businesses here. Davy Sims spoke to her afterwards.
The Creative Entrepreneurs Club, host of this event, is administered by NORIBIC and funded by Belfast City Council.
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For the first time, HP Labs have moved out of their home in Bristol, to hold their a two day conference on Media Scapes – or Mscapes. Described by one of the speakers as a New Medium, mscapes has been developing since about 2003 and has achieved global interest.
Visiting the two day mscapeFest08 in Belfast’s W5 were producers, developers, designers and educationalists from Canada, USA, Singapore, Taiwan, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands and many other countries.
Davy Sims spent 2 and 3 December at W5 at the conference which was opened by Northern Ireland Finance Minister Nigel Dodds
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You can find out more by going to the mscapers.com where you can download the tool kit, browse some 500 mscapes and get involved with the forums and with other people developing the project.
Around 100 people turned up for the official launch of the Digital Circle in the BBC Blackstaff Studio with an audience drawn from all parts of Northern Ireland’s Digital Content Industry, stakeholder organisations, government and related industries.
The launch marked another milestone in a 4 year journey. Only last January the Content Strategy was published. This Launch marks the end of the planning and the where the content industry takes control of the direction that Digital Circle will go.
The first speech was from the chair of Digital Circle and MD of Being Online Adrian Lennon (Subscribe to the Podcast (RSS), Subscribe through iTunes, Download Directly (MP3))
Following Adrian, Stephen Mullen from Invest Northern Ireland - one of the guiding lights behind the Content Strategy spoke (Subscribe to the Podcast (RSS), Subscribe through iTunes, Download Directly (MP3))
The evening ended with a Q&A Session with the audience led by Matt Johnston (Subscribe to the Podcast (RSS), Subscribe through iTunes, Download Directly (MP3))
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The Digital Circle holds its official launch on Wednesday 26 November. The event is open to all businesses in the content industry in Northern Ireland. It will take place in BBC Blackstaff Studios on Belfast’s Great Victoria Street :
The event will be hosted by Adrian Lennon the chair of Digital Circle. Davy Sims spoke to Adrian and to Matt Johnston the DC Facilitator about the launch, plans for an election and why the whole industry should get involved.
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Whether it is Internet Protocol, Intellectual Property, Innovation for the Public, it’s the 4 in 4IP which is important.
Ewan McIntosh of Channel 4’s 4IP Fund was in Belfast on Thursday (11 November 2008). Ewan is Digital Commissioner for Northern Ireland Scotland and north east England and is planning to make regular visits here for open meetings.
Davy Sims met him in one of Belfast’s posher venues, hence the opera in the background.
For more information and to contact Ewan go to http://www.4ip.org.uk/ and http://www.38minutes.co.uk/
And a note about Digital Circle. The official launch will be soon. You can sign up for free membership now through the blog – http://www.digitalcircle.org
Members will be voting for the steering group.
There’ll be a podcast about all that soon and you can follow it all on the Blog.
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This is the second in the series about winners of the the Northern Ireland Department of Trade and Investment’s Broadband Content Initiative – one year on.
In this podcast Davy Sims profiles the Constant Comedy Website and talk to Philip Morrow and Kieran Doherty and the competition creator, Paul Robinson. Plus clips from Colin and Brian Northern Ireland daleks, Cutter of the Yard, Diarmuid Corr’s Australian Place Names and the Extreme Tea Drinker.
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The Digital Circle Podcast returns to the studios of One Zero Zero in boomtown Belfast. It’s getting tough out there.
Here are some headlines just from this week:
So with that in mind we’ve brought together this week’s panel.
Also we be finding out with musical combo Escape Act are being Crafty Devils and where you can download tracks.
Michelle Gallen is just back from the Irish Web Awards. Her business is Liquid E-Learning.
Ruairi McNally is Media Director with Bluecube Interactive. And Rich Dale is a member of Escape Act and works with Crafty Devil.
Download tracks from Escape Act here:
Kings Have Fallen: http://mp3hugger.com/2008/09/escape-act-kings-are-fallen.html
Cabin Fever: http://boxsetgo.blogspot.com/2008/10/escape-act-so-good-they-force-change-of.html
Green: http://www.amuze.me/featured/escape-act-green/
Download Central: http://escapeact.bandcamp.mu
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