This weekend is the Hide and Seek Festival in London (27-29 June) and tomorrow they start with Hide and Speak – a day of discussions on games and the future of play. Lots of Toolsy issues being covered and, interestingly, a session considering what might be gained from not using the technology available. Friday 27 June 2008 – The ARGs Don’t Work, 9.30am-1.00pm There’s a major problem with the structure of alternate reality games (ARG). How do you keep your…

If you need a little help sorting out your RSS feeds from your Wikis then check out the videos on The CommonCraft Show. Lee LeFever explains the basics in a wonderfully clear way and will get you started with some suggested links to try out. Topics include: Twitter Social Networking Social Bookmarking Blogs Wikis RSS

Is anyone using Twitter actively? Do you find it useful? Do you find out about cool stuff through Twitter? Or is it just more noise, less signal? Personally I’m a little addicted but I’m not sure if it’s a good, productive addiction or a bad, waste-of-time, distracting addiction. It’s a little like being at a big dinner party and trying to have lots of different conversations at the same time and never quite getting to the point.

This week’s Kultureflash editorial looked at the media’s attention on the increasingly tense relationship between Hollywood and the internet in the wake of this year’s somewhat low key Oscars. I thought the articles linked to by KF might be of interest: The Economist: ‘Coming Soon’; The Economist: ‘There will be blood’; Telegraph, and Wall Street Journal . Tamsin SP London

I wanted to link to this post from Internet Duct Tape not because you will necessarily be interested in his links (although you may be!) but because it’s a great example of how you can cross-post across various social web-oriented websites to spread your links far and wide. In this case to delicious, stumbleupon, Twitter and Tumblr. One of the things I would say about all these sites is that it really helps to use them to get a sense…

REELot is a place for writers to pitch their work online. John Contrubis and Sindy Gordon, the people behind REELot, previously worked for the WGA and are passionate about helping writers promote themselves and their work. Shooting People is proud to be a REELot affiliate so please check them out. Interested producers can also explore all the projects here.

eyespot! is a website that allows anyone to edit and share video, photos and music. It’s truly democratic because you don’t even need a camera to be able to create your own videos. This might not be exactly thrilling for professional filmmakers but it’s a great tool to suggest to people who want to experiment with editing or who don’t have access to expensive cameras and editing software.

RSS (really simple syndication) feeds let you syndicate your online content – blogs and podcasts for example – by allowing people to subscribe to the feed which means that they don’t have to keep checking back to see if you have posted something new. This is a great way to make it easy for people to stay involved and interested in what you are doing and it also increases the chances of new people discovering you and your work. If…

Wanna keep track of your Google presence on the web? Need to track what people are saying about your film where? Sign up for Google Alerts and you’ll get the relevant Google updates emailed to you. Now stop Googling yourself and do some work!