Back when I was in art college all the photographers used to make collage views. In these digital times this doesn’t seem to be so popular. However, being somewhat old school in my thinking I took the series of pictures above on my phone and pieced them together.
As you may have worked out by now, I have a new home. When I’m not organising for the Workers’ Educational Association you can find me up in Room 2 at the Broadway in Nottingham’s sunny city centre.
Pop in for a coffee and a chat. I am usually about on Mondays and some Tuesdays.
For information on the Broadway please visit: www.broadway.org.uk
The Nottingham based team 13 Souls stepped up and delivered a WordPress system that is maintained by the ScreenLit team. The site functionality is driven entirely by widgets and plugins. A popular phrase for the project is, “Its all about widgets and plugins!” The whole budget was spent on ensuring the design and message were as crisp and attractive as could be. All of the driving technology is free to use and open source. The festival has events that have sold out entirely from online ticket sales. The Nottingham Evening Post reported that the opening night gala of ScreenLit Festival of Film, TV and Writing has become the fastest sell-out in Broadway Cinema’s history. The site is a festival tool that can work all year and not just a month before the festival opens. Next year it is simplicity itself to redesign the site to be in keeping with whatever the current trend in film festival websites will be.
71% of the UK has taken up broadband
According to Ofcom 71% of the UK has taken up broadband. This staggering number brings into sharp focus those who have yet to take the leap.
Scanning the report http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/753567/UK-internet.pdf (for the Internet and web based content section) makes for futuristic reading. The new age has officially arrived. Less time passivly consuming and more time creating seems to be the new way. Web 2.0 has arrived. Many of you reading this will thik to yourselves “So?” yet one must remember that if you are reading this then you are in the minority. 74% of people aged 65+ feel that they are not confident users of the internet. This age group constitutes only 6% of the active internet universe yet according to the National Statistics Online by 2034, 23% of the population is projected to be aged 65 and over compared to 18% aged under 16. Of course by 2034 some of us reading this will be in that 65+ age bracket.
I still can’t help wondering what the 29% of the population who haven’t yet made the leap online are thinking.
Of course, being online is hald the question. What are people doing online once they have achieved connectivity?
Social networking now accounts for a quarter of all time spent online.
Some 37 per cent of over 55s use email each day and 47 per cent use it weekly.
Usage of instant messaging declined from 14 per cent to 5 per cent.
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