New Blog: “Crossmediablog”

A new blog has started, with a journalism lens:

Crossmediablog.com is an initiative of the School of Journalism, a division of the Hogeschool Utrecht in the Netherlands. Under supervision of crossmedia professor John Driedonks we will cover the ‘2007 Crossmedia Storrytelling Conference’ in Mechelen in a crossmedia way. Our reports will be a functional combination of, print, audio, photo and video.

Although it seems they are viewing ‘crossmedia’ as ‘multimedia’ or multiple media modes, rather than platforms, they may…however…discover some interesting stuff.

Check it out

DestFest Manifesto

DESTFEST As I’ve said before, I’ll be participating on the ‘Cyber-Born Film’ panel at Megan Spencer’s Destination Film Festival (DestFest). It will be launched this weekend and Megan has provided a humorous but true point-of-difference post about the festival:

Big Brand Film Festival: “I’m going to focus on features and government funded films as if no other films are made in Australia (or that other films made in Australia don’t really count).

DestFest: “I won’t”.

BBFF: “I’m going to hold a panel about how to compete with your fellow filmmakers for government funding this round”.

DF: “I won’t”.

BBFF: “I’m going to hold a pitching competition so you can win an opportunity to make a film”.

DF: “I won’t”.

BBFF: “I’m going to spend thousands of dollars flying an American into Australia to tell you how to write the perfect script”.

DF: “I won’t”.

DF: “I’m going to encourage culture instead of industry, community instead of competition, artistic inventiveness instead of commercial compromise, and passion instead of toeing the party line. I’m going to ask filmmakers and film artists to take centre stage regardless of whether or not you’ve heard of them, whether they’ve been to Film School, been tagged as “the next big thing”, won an AFI award or received any government funding”.

BBFF: “Um…”

Though I don’t think ‘culture’ and ‘industry’ are two opposites, the sentiment of preferencing what is needed rather than perpetrating the standard line is much needed.

New blog: Mark Iddon is a Multiplatform Monkey

Just discovered this new blog by Mark Iddon, who describes himself as a ‘multiplatform developer’ who has been working in the TV industry for 7 years (cool):

I’m currently a Multiplatform developer in the UK TV industry and have previously worked as a producer/developer in mainly children’s TV working in the UK and Canada.

He describes his blog as follows:

Welcome to my blog. THE blog when it comes to my Multiplatform shenanigans.

“What is Multiplatform?” You may ask. Good question. I work in the TV broadcast industry in the UK as a developer working with TV, Online, Mobile and Radio… Hence the ‘Multiplatform’ bit. In the ever changing world of TV production things have had to broaden out so that ‘content’ reigns supreme and the platforms for which it is made are becoming as diverse as Kylie’s hot pant collection.

The purpose of this blog is to bring together things of interest to those I work with and those who are interested in the exciting goings on in the world of multiplatform production. I hope to post interesting sites and news I have found alongside any insights that I gain in my day-to-day existence as a developer.

Great stuff Mark, I look forward to lurking on your blog. 🙂