“It’s fair enough if you haven’t had the opportunity to work on commercial projects when you are starting out, but it shouldn’t prevent you from starting your own projects. If you’re sending out job or placement requests for web design or developer posts and don’t have any evidence of the quality work online, then that will definitely count against you. Get your own domain. Put a portfolio up. Contribute to an open source project. Set up a blog. Get your own Twitter following. Be active online. Show us that you care.” — Made Media’s own Tim Kitchen talks about getting your first gig on B-Hive. Nurturing Birmingham’s Creative Talent.
“According to research by PRS, Bristol has spawned more musicians relative to population size than any other in the UK.” —
BBC - Bristol is Britain’s ‘most musical city’. Birmingham don’t make the top ten, Manchester at seven, behind Cardiff, Wakefield and Cheltenham.
Not sure these population-adjusted figures really mean anything, but they’re good fun, and Bristol instinctively feels like a just number one to me.
“there are ways to play the acquisition game (or even financing game) and make millions without ever turning a profit. But don’t let the media fool you–you hear of the few successes because the stories are fun to tell. The thousands of failures that die sad but unspectacular deaths don’t get on the magazine covers.” — Why Grow? and Other Wisdom from 37Signals
Today made media has mostly been in Manchester. Leaving impressed.
So glad I made it home before Ella’s bedtime. She started crawling today. Seems pretty pleased with herself. We’re aprehensive…
Would be interested to hear about any digital agencies successfully using scrum in a busy multi-project, fast turnaround studio environment.
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slowly dawning on me that nice twitter usernames are even harder to get hold of than nice domain names, because they cost nothing.
Nice try @RalliSolicitors, but I’ll only work with a Parker user. Ralli branded pens don’t have ‘market traction’.
So fed up discussing platform choice with potential clients. It’s like selecting a solicitor based on their preferred brand of pen.
I’d really like to thank you @markjames for your persistent efforts on Twitter in portraying me as some hellish David Brentalike.
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod -
nice layout.