Archive TV Launches

The Crime Wave from Archive TV on Vimeo.
I’ve been working with Cassie Leedham and Chris Garrett on the launch of a great new TV production company specialising in historical crime drama-documentaries based on true stories from newspaper and library archives.
Appropriately, it’s called Archive TV, and it’s headed up by Sharon Holloway.
The site is now online, [...]

Video: Is the future of ‘online’ actually ‘offline’?

With my head fried from the SXSW Interactive experience this is a short (1:47 min) video piece of me talking about how it’s the offline impact that social media can offer that will validate out use of these technologies rather than just the cash that can be made from the next big social networking website [...]

Rationalise Your Online Identity with Profilactic and ClaimID

“Identity” is a hard-to-pin-down concept, especially when it comes to your ‘online identity’ in a world of Facebook profiles, Twitter and what seems to be becoming ‘multiple online identity disorder’.
Last year at SXSW I had the opportunity to chat to Chris Messina at an OpenID discussion who had some very insightful ideas about what the [...]

3form Shortlisted for a Webby!

A nice start to the week - we’ve been shortlisted for a Webby award for the First Light Movies website. For me, just getting shortlisted is an accolade in itself, so I’m very pleased!
For those not familiar with the Webbies - they’re the equivalent of the Oscars for the Web. Here’s their one-liner from their [...]

Igloo Impossible

It’s that time of year again, and in time honoured fashion I’ve put together a little festive game for your mouse-clicking enjoyment.
It’s called Igloo: Impossible, which to the uninitiated could seem a little obtuse. It’s a reference to the original game it’s based on - Mansion: Impossible.
The idea? Buy and sell igloos in the arctic [...]