http://www.theplan.co.uk Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:29:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well I tried my twitter experiment, and it failed. I planned about 30 tweets, but tweet later locked up and blurted them out multiple times - meaning my poor followers were inundated with repeated messages.  Not something that happened on the test run! Friends don't let friends tweet later Lucky for me most ... http://www.theplan.co.uk/2008/07/13/best-laid-plans/ ... that I hadn't found the ultimate displacement activity. I should be mowing the lawn, cutting the hedge, tidying up the Sutton Festival of Arts website, theming my own website, and maybe spending sometime with my wife. Instead I'm playing with I So wish and doing silly things like making a blog badge ... http://www.theplan.co.uk/2008/06/28/i-so-wish/ Last night I attended the 2008 Showcase for Handsworth Library's Urban Digital project. Urban Digital started in 2007.  It's a community media training programme, based in Handsworth Community Library (HCL).  Originally funded through SRB6 the programme provides access to training and equipment for digital media production in the following areas: Video production Photography Web ... http://www.theplan.co.uk/2008/06/26/urban-digital-2008-awards-night/ So here's my brief: Sutton Festival of Arts is happening next month, over a wide range of locations and with a tonne of shows, workshops and exhibitions.  We've printed programmes, we've got a website, but I'm still worried about how people will navigate the day. So what we need is a ... http://www.theplan.co.uk/2008/06/21/tweet-later-building-an-event-alert-system-using-twitter/ So ukhost4u have shut down the hosting we use for newmusicstrategies. Some perspective on this, from the point of view of a hosting business. We've been trying to move away but their left hand (the transfer out department) isn't talking to the right (the billing department) and neither is talking to us. ... http://www.theplan.co.uk/2008/06/20/the-new-music-strategies-debacle-a-perspective-on-the-hosting-business/ http://www.theplan.co.uk/2008/06/18/what-all-the-best-online-journalism-lecturers-are-wearing-this-season/ Today was the last day of the 2008 Urban Digital web design programme.  As ever, it's a sad but also a proud day when I get to the end of a course. What I find most interesting about teaching within this environment is the variety of outcomes people are looking for, ... http://www.theplan.co.uk/2008/04/12/hello-world/