The Raven Silvers blog » Uncategorized http://www.ravensilvers.com/blog Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:27:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 All In! Young Writers’ Seminar: Writing and the New Media http://www.ravensilvers.com/blog/2010/01/31/all-in-young-writers-seminar-writing-and-the-new-media/ http://www.ravensilvers.com/blog/2010/01/31/all-in-young-writers-seminar-writing-and-the-new-media/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:00:23 +0000 Raven http://www.ravensilvers.com/blog/?p=353 The All In! Young Writers’ Seminar is the first seminar-conference I’ve heard about that specifically targets post-secondary students from JCs, polys, and universities. I’d go, but I have exams that week so unfortunately I can’t ):

Quick details:

All In! Young Writers’ Seminar: Writing and the New Media Venue: The Arts House (1 Old Parliament Lane) Date: 20 Feb 2010, [...]]]> The All In! Young Writers’ Seminar is the first seminar-conference I’ve heard about that specifically targets post-secondary students from JCs, polys, and universities. I’d go, but I have exams that week so unfortunately I can’t ):

Quick details:

All In! Young Writers’ Seminar: Writing and the New Media
Venue: The Arts House (1 Old Parliament Lane)
Date: 20 Feb 2010, Sat
Time: 9.30am to 6pm
Admission is free

It’s organised by the National Book Development Council, the Arts House and the NUS Literary Society, with NUS being the National University of Singapore.

Here’s a rundown of what the gist of the seminar is all about:

This seminar will provide an insight into:

  • How the Internet and web technologies have evolved and are evolving
  • How has the traditional publishing value chain been affected by IT and the new media
  • Writing in the larger context of Digital Media
  • How to keep up to date with new developments
  • Future trends like e-books, e-readers, interactive and multimedia content
  • Responsible blogging

Things like comics and online journalism will also be covered during the session, so go forth and register! The flyer with the registration info can be found here.

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Don’t panic!

It’s a site bug that was just discovered by the folks in Australia and NZ. HQ is working on fixing it.

Currently, the only workaround is to change your timezone to something [...]]]> If it’s Nov 30 in wherever you are, you might notice that you can’t validate your wordcount because the site thinks that Nov is over.

Don’t panic!

It’s a site bug that was just discovered by the folks in Australia and NZ. HQ is working on fixing it.

Currently, the only workaround is to change your timezone to something further back.

More updates as we get them.

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Until I figure out what went wrong and how to fix it, the blog will be using the default theme. I know it looks very barebones, but please bear with me until I can [...]]]> I’m having some technical difficulties with the site. Well, that’s putting it mildly; I broke my blog and I don’t even know how.

Until I figure out what went wrong and how to fix it, the blog will be using the default theme. I know it looks very barebones, but please bear with me until I can resolve this.

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