inresidence

New blog

With the residency now over, I've decided to start a new main blog. There'll be no further postings on this site, even though it'll remain online for reference.

Go to http://timwright.typepad.com.

Teeside talk

Went to Teeside University to talk to students about Oldton and digital writing. Only three of them turned up because my session clashed with a Photoshop tutorial. Kinda tells you everything you need to know about content vs technology ;-(

The site looked bloody awful because their machine wasn't reading my CSS file. It is dawning on me that my site may well look like a bloody mess to a lot of people because I haven't scripted things properly. Back to the drawing board...

Oldton goes live

I'm happy to say that the full site for In Search of Oldton is now online at http://www.oldton.com.

Of course, the work is not over. Only this morning I received another postcard, and I'm hoping contributions will keep coming in.

I now also have to sort out getting the packs of cards printed.

Disappeared into Oldton

So maybe William Gibson was right that writing a blog whilst also trying to write a creative piece of work is a bit like 'trying to boil a kettle with the lid off'.

A long summer holiday on a remote Croatian island, and a big push to finally complete In Search of Oldton has caused me to cease blogging for a while.

Normal service will now be resumed.

Brighton

Drove down to Brighton last night to have dinner with Matt Locke of the BBC, new media academic Jill Walker and Martin Trickey, newly of teacherstv. It was nice to be by the sea.

A lot of talk about how we might tell cross-media stories. Sounds like the Beeb may have some interesting new projects in that area next year, some of them rather XPT-like...

Came away twith the depressing feeling that nothing has really happened to advance ideas about my line of work since about 1999.

Norwich City

Watched an entertaining 0-0 draw - if there is such a thing - at White Hart Lane today, in the company of the very lovely Locke brothers (see Friends list)

Spurs were all over us in the first half and should have been three up at half time. But their frustration showed in the second half and the plot was lost. Just a suggestion that we might have nicked it at the end.

On this showing, though, I'm not persuaded to buy Sky in order to watch them on the telly.