DFIM Final Blog entry..

The information held on this blog is relevant to The Design for Interactive Media (DFIM) at UWIC. There has been another project running along side the DFIM course, called elements, which has taken dramatic transformation through out this academic year. With all the DFIM course work out the way I’m now going to hopefully do a bit of magic and produce something quite unique. In light of the DFIM course I’m impressed on how well Stuart and Simon cover the areas of New Media and the technology that surrounds it. The DFIM course has opened up my scope to what is going on in the world of interactive media, it’s been a good opportunity to research the field and find out where it is that fit in to this young but rapidly growing industry.”

It’s been fun, now for the really hard work J… keep track of my developments at www.john-robinson-ip.blogspot.com

EPP – London, Social Networking

Venue’s based in London known for hosting large social networking events, like the institute of contemporary arts and the business design centre have previously hosted some large creative new media conferences. Creativelondon.org.uk has a large directory of projects (http://www.creativelondon.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.009008) which seem to be based around the idea of showing work and networking. I believe if any city of the UK has potential in making useful connections via a project show or an event, London would be the place to be. The drawbacks I believe to be the notion of social networking being dependent on participation, in other words if no one turns up then no one is interested. My idea of a social network model would be to remove the reason for it to be held as an event only means of transferring information. For example MSN, is a huge social network and is dependent on being active 24/7.

EPP - Business

We were recently asked to visit some banks and retrieve information relevant to opening a business after university. I have retrieved information in this area in the past and come to relise the only reason a business would be needed was to employ someone else. Other than that I can declare my self employed and declare tax plus get a part time job. However this suits my personal needs. I skipped quickly between HSBC and Barkley’s. I really wanted to see the attitudes towards the students by the bank. I joined Mark and Logan in HSBC then quickly run to Barkley’s to meet Paul and Nigel. HSBC where very informative relaxed compared to Barkley’s, I’m still not sure exactly why this is but HSBC always seem clued up on investing in Business. I have a meeting soon with HSBC to discuss possible account options for being self employed, I might add the resulting information to the elements blog. Apart from that I was more than impressed with the meeting place after our little adventure around the city. The Plaza hotel café, will have to arrange a talk to someone there about my project.