Just a few photos of progress this morning. beta version of the layout so far.

               

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it's all about travelling light right?

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Just a few pictures that i have finally got around to posting from the conkertu local event in february. lots of tickets were sold on eventbrite for the day and about a quarter of those people that signed up turned up for the day. The west street music project did a fantastic job and the sound system was amazing. overall a good turnout for such a cold and rainy day

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she is growing up so fast. .. . such cuteness.

                                 

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received my prepaid mastercard this morning from http://www.mygocard.co.uk

activation of the card was straight forward over the phone and add funds to the card via a paypoint was very simple and straight forward. within ten minute i was setup in a local cybercafe and logged into the admin panel at mygocard and the money was showing up in the account. i set about to re-order some web services i had wanted to get renewed for a long time and found the process straight forward and simple. i was very impressed with the speed of updating of the statement view and the list of the charges on the statement.

Obviously the charges are a major problem on this card right now for me to really suggest it to anyone else but i guess for the protection, fraud and the fact that you do not have it linked to an address they company has to make some money somewhere. I just wish the charges were a lot less than they are. The additional features like the sms balance and sending money to another card are nice features and some of the main reasons to get the card - i hope i can get to work with them as a partner to develop those sms/topup services. I can see real potential in that feature set.

Remember thou, this is a mastercard that you can topup yourself at a post office or anywhere that has a paypoint and it is not linked to an address. no statements through the post, a decent online admin and the ability to send money via sms from one card to another. It certainly fits a requirement that i need right now. I'm looking forward to testing out the o2 money card in the coming week as well and will look at the charges for comparison.

Overall i'm quite happy with it so far.

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Slowly becoming one of my favourite places to relax and get work done on public wifi in my local area. I have the spaghetti salmon and prawn and cream and the latte are really really good. probably the best in swadlincote. i took these snaps on my new canon ixus 200 IS. It's a rather nice camera for taking quick shots and transferring them onto my blog. I like that!

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quick link | http://sxsw.com

once again into the breech this year with a different 'ontheground' team in the shape of myself and Nat (@aquilatv) Higginbottom (@exsanguinator) filming in and around the conference centre. For the last three years i have made the pilgrimage to the mecca that is sxsw in austin, texas with a number of people and have put faces to names that were virtual for a long time. I also treat sxsw as a bit of a re-energizing period and it is good to network with people and see what projects they are working on over the coming year.

a side from the party atmosphere at southby that seems to kick into life after 5pm the place becomes a realtime second life with familiar twitter avatars filling the streets. sixth street is often very busy at night as it takes on a very carnival/festival atmosphere - some great film/footage can be grabbed here and i remember some fantastic food places along that road.

We have a working brief (the heart of england inward investment team) this year which is awesome because i get to work with a great cameraman and will have plenty of opportunity to learn things that nat does 'ontheground' with setting up shots, audio and the process that goes along with that - looking forward to doing interviews on the stand too and will give me the focus i need as i ramp up media output and put together the web streaming studio in nottingham.

A whole bunch of people from the west midlands area are going out to sxsw - i have put together (with help!) a small list of people that will be out there - i hope i get to interview a bunch of them this year instead of blasting past them in the hallways.. .

James Coleman (@supercooljames)
http://www.supercooldesign.co.uk

Rebecca Cadwallader (@beckycad)
http://www.televisionjunction.co.uk

Justin Eames (@justineames)
http://www.fishinabottle.com

Helga Henry (@helgahenry)
http://www.wearefierce.org

Nat Higginbottom/Phil Campbell (@exsanguinator - @philcampbell)
http://www.aquila-tv.com

Toby Barnes/Matt Watkins
http://www.wearemudlark.com

Fitzroy Coward
http://www.persuaders.co.uk/profile

Chris Unitt (@chrisunitt)
http://meshedmedia.com

John Newbold (@john383)
http://www.383project.com

Nick Lockey (@nicklockey)
http://www.mavericktv.co.uk/index.php

Ben Stanley
http://www.trilby.co.uk

Ruth Ward (@ruthward)
http://www.rewiredpr.com

Jenny Moore/Lisa Meyer/Johnny (@supersonicfestival)
http://www.capsule.org.uk
http://www.capsule.org.uk/supersonic

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Every Tool Has to Fit a Slot - canon ixus 200 IS. from Philip Campbell on Vimeo.

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