This is a news update. There are many like it:

• Hundreds of media professionals awarded TV multiplatform training windfall – CREATIVE Times – “A £200,000 investment is being made in a major Skillset scheme to subsidise the cost of TV multiplatform training for up to 500 media professionals across the UK”
• 383 Project » Seamless in Seattle – Interesting write-up of 383’s recent trip to Seattle
• Row over funding for Screen WM board members – Prof Roger Shannon “has called for more transparency around investments by the regional screen agency after it emerged projects linked to board members have received hundreds of thousands of pounds”
• We’ve won a DADI award « Rawww Blog – “we’ve won a DADI award for our contribution to the Story UK website – best In-House website”
• Big Button – The Surfer – “Big Button edited The Surfer, written and directed by Dominic Coleman for the Digishorts scheme”
• “Who got the keys…” | TAK! – Dunno if I’m more impressed with them winning the award or using that title for this post
• Microsoft subsidiary Rare set for move into Birmingham – They made GoldenEye 007 and Donkey Kong Country. If it wasn’t for them I might have got better GCSEs
• The rise and rise of Fazeley Studios – “Nestling among the remaining metal-bashers and greasy spoons of Digbeth’s back streets lies a powerful symbol of Birmingham’s digital renaissance”. More biggings up of the office building everyone loves to love
• [Event] Hackitude, Birmingham, 11-13 December 2009 – “Hackitude is a two-day hacking event based around your ideas. Non-technie-types can suggest ideas for things they’d like to see made, and hackers can setup or join working groups to make those ideas a reality”