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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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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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Catriona Menzies-Pike on crowdfunding New Matilda

January 24, 2011
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When New Matilda closed its doors at the end of June, 2010, a lot of people sighed. Others shook their heads (“Someone should do something about this!”). A few people said they had a bad business model (“What, paying writers!”) and a few hard heads just thought it was part and parcel of running a media business in this day and age (“Fail fast!”). But with the indefatigable Marni Cordell at the helm and Catriona Menzies-Pike as associate editor, we should have known to expect more.

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Reading #4

November 23, 2010

Imagine a situation that brings sci-fi writers Douglas Rushkoff, Ray Hammond, Scarlett Thomas and Markus Heitz together with experts in photonics, robotics, telematics, dynamic physical rendering and intelligent sensors. Sounds perfect, right? That’s what Intel’s Morrow Project did (follow that link to read/watch the stories). Brian David Johnson is the futurist/futurecaster responsible for this project, and although [...]

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