The MsBehaviour Files: New Music Ideas
My first mp3 player was a little black box that barely held four tracks, which was given to me as a wedding present. It would play enough music for my cycle ride to work, but I'd have to listen to the...
View ArticleThe MsBehaviour Files: Design Your Space
I have just spent a satisfying few weeks, re-designing the Mohawk Media studios. I start every new year throwing out rubbish, filing old paperwork and working out our needs for the year. The process...
View ArticleTales from the Twitterverse
Twitter was launched back in 2007, and a whole new language has emerged from this microblogging service. Over a million tweeple across the world are now twittering about their lives in 140 character...
View ArticleBaacamp to Blackout
Every social movement starts with conversations, between passionate people willing to collaborate and make a difference. The conversation that sparked last week's internet blackout in New Zealand came...
View ArticleCreative Commons
Once upon a time copyrights were controlled by monasteries, patrons and guilds, until the English Statute of Anne in 1710. Considered to be the first modern copyright law it gave legal rights to...
View ArticleFair Use is Key in S92A & C
I heard it first on Twitter, as I do with most breaking news these days, that the infamous S92A Copyright Law had been rejected in its current form by the New Zealand government. After a quick re-tweet...
View ArticleDrupal Community Plumbing
You are reading this MsBehaviour File on The Big Idea's new website, made with a lot of love and the Drupal Content Management System or CMS. Drupal is one of a number of tools from the Open Source...
View ArticleScreencasting Tools
One of the most rewarding things in life is sharing knowledge and experience. Years ago this took place in schools or guilds but now anyone can learn online with how to guides and tutorials. If you...
View ArticleCommercialising Ideas
Digital columnist Helen Baxter writes about commercialising ideas and X|Media|Lab in Auckland. Read More »
View ArticleX|Media|Lab Auckland
Local brains have been buzzing this weekend as the X|Media|Lab moved their festival of ideas to Auckland. Seventeen international mentors, keynote speakers, plus seventeen projects teams met at the...
View ArticleCrowdfund Your Creativity
The concept of Crowdsourcing has been in vogue for some time with the media making open calls for content and input from audiences. Now independent filmmakers, musicians and other creative types are...
View ArticleTags and the semantic web
MsBehaviour looks at why tagging data is important as the next phase in the development of the Semantic Web and provides some tips for tagging your content on The Big Idea. Read More »
View ArticleDigital MsBehaviour (+video)
Helen Baxter puts her digital spin on the traditional column with the all new Multimedia MsBehaviour Files! Her first monthly file looks at the maker, crafter and hacker spaces across New Zealand,...
View ArticleFashion your Firefox (+audio)
I can't make it to New Zealand Fashion Week this year, but I can make-over my Firefox Browser. At Mohawk Media I use Google's Chrome browser for studio logins, and run Internet Explorer for testing...
View ArticleWearable electronics (+video)
MsBehaviour looks at using Arduino programming to create wearable electronics and art installations. Read More »* * *
View ArticleBest of the Web (+video)
In her final file for The Big Idea, Helen Baxter highlights her top twenty Web tools and how digital culture has grown since The MsBehaviour Files started at the beginning of the ‘Web 2.0’ wave.“There...
View ArticleTop Digital Trends in 2010
Digital commentator Helen Baxter takes a look at the top digital trends for 2010, in this guest MsBehaviour File as part of The Big Idea's feature on Digital Culture."The technological advances of the...
View ArticleCopyright Judgement Day
By Helen BaxterYou are reading this on Judgement Day, two days ago Skynet became aware. According to the sci-fi series The Sarah Connor Chronicles, on 21 April 2011 the machines declare war on mankind...
View ArticleNo Talk, All Action
It might seem impossible to go from an idea to launching a business in a weekend, especially with people you have never met. But as Helen Baxter reports in this guest MsBehaviour File, that's what...
View ArticleDeSForM Design Delights
Reviewed by Helen Baxter“Philip Beesley crashed my brain wave scanner” is my favourite quote from the 7th annual Design Semantics Form and Movement (DeSForM) conference, hosted last week by the School...
View ArticleMillion Dollar Ideas
It’s the ultimate dream, to earn a million dollars from your creative idea. While not everyone has the fan funding power of US muso Amanda Palmer or NZ filmmaker Taika Waititi, Helen Baxter says every...
View ArticleFabulous Fabricators
In this guest MsBehaviour file, Helen Baxter reports from the Fab8NZ Public Symposium on inks that do things, bioprinting organs, machines that replicate, and printing glass from desert sand with solar...
View ArticleSnapshot of the Future
By Helen BaxterI have seen a snapshot of the future and it’s an exciting, vibrant place, going by the passion and determination shown at the Festival for the Future. Over three hundred Creatives +...
View ArticleLooking Into the Future
It’s always exciting to start a fresh new year full of energy, ideas and opportunities.In this guest MsBehaviour File, Helen Baxter has curated comments from The Big Idea community about the future,...
View ArticleWOMAD Wandering
Digital culture columnist Helen Baxter will be wandering around WOMAD NZ to bring us updates this weekend.The digital media diva she is, Helen starts off with what's in her MsBehaviour tech bag. Read...
View ArticleWOMAD about Music
MsBehaviour writes her round up of WOMAD NZ 2013, held in the beautiful Brooklands Park and Bowl in New Plymouth.* * * Read More »
View ArticleA Makertorium of ingenuity
In the latest MsBehaviour Files, Helen Baxter tells the behind the scenes story of Makertorium, a showcase of Kiwi ingenuity held at Te Papa in April."I hope that Makertorium inspired more young Kiwis...
View ArticleRockstars of the future
Helen Baxter covers the recent Jeff Gomez masterclass on transmedia storytelling, hosted by XMediaLab at Unitec in Auckland."Gomez believes that transmedia producers are the rockstars of the future,...
View ArticleDance at Work
Work can be fun and enjoyable with the right tools and attitude. Helen Baxter returns to her MsBehaviour files on The Big Idea with the first of a series of excerpts from her new book Dance at Work...
View ArticleNo more jobs
In the second in a series of excerpts from her book Dance at Work, Helen Baxter looks at the rise in remote working and a future of ‘No More Jobs’. Read More »
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