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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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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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Review: Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

December 12, 2010

Madeleine Preston lives in Potts Point. She paints, draws, illustrates, does printmaking, media art, sculptures, installations and public art: “Whatever medium or method works with the idea.” She’s been in 30-something group shows and made the beautifully nostalgic Darlinghurst Eats Its Young blog. She teaches art too. Madeleine comes up with ideas, and turns them [...]

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