The expo, organised by those behind the increasingly popular networking and knowledge event, aims to raise the profile of creative industries companies working in the Hull and Humber region.

The expo will also provide an opportunity for the education sector to meet face-to-face with industry.

HumberMUD chair Mal Williamson said: “The Expo! lets the creative and digital industries show the region exactly what we do in the economy. HumberMUD brings together business and creatives to grow from each other – for the Expo! we invite the public and all other businesses to find out what media and design does for you”.

The centre piece of the four day expo is the day-long Media:Education:Interface conference. Mal said: “The conference is a platform to share what happens when education and media really get on! Media, business and education all work towards excellence – in our region we are full of these brilliant projects that are changing people of all ages.”

The Media:Education:Interface conference takes place on Friday, October 22 from 10am-4pm. That evening, FRuIT will be transformed into a celebratory space for Home Sweet Home – when decks, strobes and digital toys join the FunkyWormHole Sound System for a media-rich show.

Day one of the expo (Thursday, October 21) sees the regular MUD networking event taking place at FRuIT from 6pm, uncovering the growing feature film industry in our area with renowned budget film producers Andre Renner & Sean Vincent.

Saturday, October 23 will see FRuIT used as an exhibition space, with a media market and workshops by local companies, colleges and freelance practitioners – showing the public and regional business just what media in this area can do.

The Old Technologies Ball takes place on the evening of Saturday, October 23, with gramophone DJs, close-up magic, food (by Fudge) and a display of historic computer equipment creating the perfect retro environment in which to celebrate the digital media industry. Tickets for this event are priced at £15.

The four-day event draws to a close on Sunday, October 25 with a programme of film screenings that include Sean Vincent and Andre Renner’s ‘Shoot The DJ’.

Mal Williamson added: “These four days are going to be very special and are absolutely unmissable. This is a chance to promote and celebrate digital media and for everyone involved to show what they can do. Anyone interested should come along and prepare to be amazed and get involved in what is, undoubtedly, the Hull and Humber’s fastest growing sector. Other places talk about becoming centres of excellence for technology, creativity and knowledge but, as people will be able to see for themselves, a hotbed of activity exists right here, right now.”

The four day humberMUD Expo! has been sponsored by Hull City Council. humberMUD is supported by Hull City Arts Unit and Hull School of Art & Design.

For more information visit www.humbermud.com or email MEDIAUSABILITYDESIGN@GMAIL.COM

Good news – we recorded the podcast a few days ago, and it is now released! A little better than the 6 week lag of the first episode

So, what do we have for you?

Firstly, we had a new member of the Podcast team join us, Dave Foy from Woof Online. You can follow him @woofonline

We had a great time in the studio talking about a wide variety of topics:

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Have a look at the running order!

- Introductions
- 37signals’ new book, Rework – our impressions
- Adobe CS 5 news
- GTD and productivity
- Omnifocus
- The Four Hour Work Week from Tim Ferriss
- Writing without distraction
- The Pomodoro Technique
- Focus on the essentials
- The LED
- Getting the twitter name you want
- Fave apps
- Xcode
- Mind Your Own Business / First Edge
- Crunch
- Merlin
- TextMate
- 1Password
- Things App
- Dropbox
- Backup options
- Skitch
- TextExpander
- Windows development
- Mamp Pro
- Pragmatic Programmer
- Git and Git Hub

Running time is 1 hour and 20 minutes – please do give us some feedback in the comments!

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Why?
There are a number of reasons for doing this, with one of the big reasons being FUN! Seriously, it’s great fun to do, and will be a learning curve in terms of professionalism, content and also the technology used for recording to provide the best quality.

Importantly it’s one of the first podcasts to cover all things digital and technology in Yorkshire (do let us know if there are any more), and will allow opinion, debate, ideas and chat to be published easily online.

Who?
The first podcast featured a few people who are involved in the digital / web / technology scene in the city. Major broadcasting experience was not required, although you will be able to detect this

John Polling – theled - follow him on twitter here

John Connolly – StarGrange – follow him on twitter here

Stephen Lewis – Experience Internet – follow him on twitter here

Duncan McMillan – Art and Soul – follow him on twitter here

Jon Moss – founder of Hull Digital, HDLive and theappleofmyi – follow him on twitter here

We’re very keen to have other people on, and also to give a less Mac fanboy-bias to the show! If you would like to join us, please do get in touch, and we will try and work something out.

What?
This first episode covers:

- the Apple iPad
- Apple’s data centres
- Amazon and the Kindle getting worried
- Comics on the iPad
- Apps vs Web Apps
- iPad Pricing
- Do we need Flash?
- HTML 5 video
- That Flash blog post
- Digital Magazines
- Google Buzz
- Google doing too much?
- Social media done well and badly
- Vodafone’s mishap
- IE6

Length >> 1 hour 10 minutes.

We realise we are very late in releasing this so the topics are not as topical as they might have been having released it 6 weeks ago!

Plans
Firstly, get it recorded, edited and released on time! Secondly, have guests on, either in the studio, or via Skype / phone. Lastly to mix up the people who are in the studio to get different view points and news!

Subscribing
We’re using a podcast plugin so with a bit of luck, you should be able to add the url below to your iTunes and you’ll be able to subscribe.

Just open iTunes, click on Advanced in the menubar, and select ‘Subscribe to Podcast’ and copy and paste the following url in:

Simple!

Please do bear with us while we get this up and running

We hope you enjoy it!

PS A massive thanks to Maria and Luke at the University of Hull for allowing us to use their studio and helping us with the recording.