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A Month In Music

In Fiction, Non fiction, Photography on November 17, 2011 at 9:07 am

Blogs like this are counterintuitive – the more hectic and energetic life is, the quieter they are, despite the fact they’re supposed to be records of activity. I wonder if diaries suffered from the same problems.

Well, life has been full and interesting these past few months. Plenty of things happening at work, but today I’m posting about my own new personal writing project which got underway last week. It’s called A Month In Music. I have all my MP3s in iTunes, and at first it tells you how many hours worth of music you have, and then how many days. I recently realised I had 30.3 days of music in my collection – a whole month. I was fascinated with the idea that I had, over 15 years, accumulated so much music that I could listen to it non stop for a whole month and never hear the same track repeated.

So that’s what I decided to do, writing about it as I went.

Recently: January and February 2011

In Dennis Media Factory, Freelance, Photography, The Wired Jester on March 20, 2011 at 10:40 pm

January and February: so good at seeming unending. There are few good days, few clear days, because mostly the sky is like a silver lid pressing down on us. It’s a hard drag until the clocks change. Keeping busy at work helped. The new team – the Dennis Media Factory – is getting going, although I always forget how hiring just tends to take ages.

We went to New York right after new year to kick off this year’s biggest project, but there’s a long way to go with it. In early February, I spent a very enjoyable and intense 10 day period on the design for what will be our first app, and here I was lucky to find a terrific UX expert to mastermind the process, an old colleague I bumped into a Windows Phone 7 event. It was great to actually get out of meetings and strategising and start the sketching and questioning, plotting and planning for an actual product.

Dennis is Hiring

In Dennis Media Factory on February 10, 2011 at 5:37 pm

It’s true! My department, Dennis Media Factory, is looking for talented new people to join our forward-thinking team of friendly radicals. First, we’re after a Mobile & Tablet UX Specialist: we’re a content company, and we create a huge amount of it and in this role you’ll use your jedi-like UX skills and experience to help us create apps that make it simple and pleasurable to explore and interact with all this stuff.

We’re also after some developers to build and design these apps, and we have two openings initially: an iOS Mobile & Tablet developer, and a Graduate Mobile & Tablet developer. We’ll be looking at taking our existing brands onto new devices in interesting and exciting ways, as well as launching mobile and tablet software based on completely new ideas. As developers you’ll be front and centre for this exciting initiative. If you’d like to apply, or just know more check out the links or drop me a line (alex_watson AT dennis.co.uk).

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