tomorrowelephant.net
6th October 2008

It has been announced that New Media Scotland's last Twitterist-in-Residence, Hannu Rajaniemi has secured a three-book deal with publisher Gollancz. The deal was sealed for the Edinburgh-based Finnish science fiction writer’s as yet untitled debut novel on the basis of one chapter.

Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time.

www.twitter.com/mediascot
1st to 31st Aug 2008

"Military experiment creates intelligent snow. Icy fists smash the armies of the world. The carrot-nosed Emperor wears a coal crown."

New Media Scotland was proud to announce that its third Twitterist-in-Residence was science fiction writer Hannu Rajaniemi. He used his residency to post daily microfiction pieces which were only 140 characters long.

www.twitter.com/mediascot
1st to 31st July 2008

Get Twitterwurk Set, Go! We were proud to announce that our second Twitter residency was Australian-based artist Netwurker Mez.

"Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Cosic have done for ASCII Art: Turning a great, but naively executed concept into something brilliant, paving the ground for a whole generation of digital artists." Florian Cramer