Think you can make a phone app one weekend and storm the appstore the next?

February 13, 2011
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Think you can make a phone app one weekend and storm the appstore the next? Hear the backstory from the three guys behind Flare Scratch.

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The world according to Andrew Ramadge, or how he made that online novella about Gareth Liddiard from The Drones

February 8, 2011
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In October, 2010, a news post went up on Mess + Noise about a different kind of music interview. I’m a music fan and a writer, but most writing about music follows a pretty straight format. And with the changes in the music industry, and the media, the music media has been hit hardest. It was a great piece, and I found myself wondering how the story came together.

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So how do you manage projects and all the rest?

February 7, 2011
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Look at the tag cloud to the left, and you can see why I need to stay across new ideas and information. But it can be a heady ride. I’m looking at doing a mix of freelance and other projects, and need to find ways of managing the flow of information and a bunch of freelance and other projects. Could these help?

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Opening science’s books for the crowd

February 3, 2011
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Researchers can slave over their work, publishing modest increments for years before something really connects, and sometimes it’s not even then – it can be years later, when someone else makes the connection. But paying for that time can be politically tricky, and in any case the funding tends to come with the political cycle and with the tide of political opinion. Seems like a bit of a gap between what researchers need and what they’re getting, so what’s the answer?

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