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Week #1253

The Rattle team have been out and about this week, Frankie and I attended the 2nd Linked Data Meetup and James went to find out more about the BBC @North initiative and down to Leicester to work on the Amplified Cities project.  We left Andrew to manage the delivery of the new Office Desk that [...]

The Newsography Experiment

The complaint of regional bias in news reporting is, more often than not, concerned with the media’s fixation on the capital’s institutions and populace. What basis is there for this argument? And is it possible to determine the extent of regional under representation whilst proving London enjoys near constant attention from the UK media?  The [...]

Week #1252

Stephen Fry in his talk at the iTunes Festival reminded us that beyond the survival of the day, one of the first things our species learnt to do was to tell each other stories. For thousands of years, embedded in our culture, has been a focus on gathering together to tell and listen to stories. [...]

Week #1251

The word of the week this week was “friction”. This was mostly caused by the impending talk that James was to give at the We Love Technology conference on Friday. His talk was titled We Are Friction, and you can go and read it over on his Technogoggles blog, which has been resurrected back into life (conferences [...]

Week #1192

We’ve spent a large chunk of this week writing proposals.  Two for unsolicited work and one for a big tender thingy. The proposal for the big tender thingy was tortuous, mainly because the thing had a language all of its own and because the requirements for the tender weren’t obvious – which was perhaps a [...]

Illustrations for user journeys

As part of our work developing ideas for the BBC’s A History of the World project last year, we commissioned a series of illustrations from Tiffany Rawson, an artist that we first met in 2008, and who we’ve worked with on a couple of previous projects for Folksy. The illustrations were used to illustrate a [...]

Designing A History of The World

The BBC contacted us in Spring 2009 to help them think through different audience propositions for what is now A History of The World, a landmark series on Radio 4 produced in conjunction with the British Museum.  The basic premise of the programme is to provide a history of the world through objects, including 100 from the British [...]