2008 September

Bicester Village – Shopping and the credit crunch

September 30, 2008 by Documentally · 29 Comments

Today I visited Bicester Village in Oxfordshire. I was primarily there to grab some cheap shoes and a shirt but whilst browsing the stores it was suggested (via twitter) by @Lauradee that i should interview a few people regarding the credit crunch. So I did. All went well (I even manged to treat myself to [...]

Filed Under: Blog, Personal, Video · Tagged With: bicester, clothes, consumerism, credit crunch, documentally, money, recession, sales, shopping, village

Dear Twitter

September 24, 2008 by Documentally · 15 Comments

Dear Twitter, I have had a great idea… I suddenly realised that over here in the UK you have no offline presence at all. No skyscraping head office, no billboards and no sponsored parks or roundabouts. How could this be? Especially with you being such an incredible international social media tour de force. This got [...]

Filed Under: Blog, Social Media · Tagged With: branding, car, documentally, mobile, nissan, our man inside, pao, Social Media, sponsorship, twitter

An Ultra Sound Day

September 20, 2008 by Documentally · 51 Comments

This morning we saw our little baby for the first time. On a square screen in a darkened room we looked upon the surreal sight of a grainy monochrome child wriggling in ultrasound. Nothing has been real until this moment. Now I can safely say, We are having a baby. On entering the room, I [...]

Filed Under: Blog, Personal · Tagged With: baby, child, convergence, documentally, family, our man inside, ultrasound

A Chat With Vinvin On Videoblogging

September 10, 2008 by Documentally · 10 Comments

I met up with Cyrille De Lasteyrye aka @VinVin at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas. We had an impromptu chat about Seesmic, video blogging and social media, captured on camera by Matt Rawlinson aka @barnstormed from the Open University in the UK. There is much more New Media Expo content on the Phreadz [...]

Filed Under: Blog, Internet, Social Media, Video · Tagged With: barnstormed, blogging, Cyrille De Lasteyrye, documentally, las vegas, Matt Rawlinson, new media expo, nme, open university, ou, phreadz, seesmic, Social Media, twitter, viddler, Video, videoblogging, vinvin

Independent Copyright Theft

September 9, 2008 by Documentally · 10 Comments

Here is a phone call between the Independent Newspaper and myself as I try to resolve the issue of my photo being published without my permission in this story. I must add that this is not the first time it has happened. I had to make similar calls regarding photography taken in Iraq. Once a [...]

Filed Under: Blog, Photography · Tagged With: copyright, documentally, editor, independent, invoice, Journalism, london, media, newspsper, nuj, ourmaninside, photograph, print, theft, tony gosling

PICNIC'08 – A meeting of creative minds.

September 4, 2008 by Documentally · 8 Comments

“From 24 to 26 September 2008, thousands of creative minds from all over the world will come together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC. …” So how does one particular creative mind get to this kind of event on a budget? It looks huge, expensive dripping with free bars and full colour laser projection backdrops. [...]