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Yesterday I met with Ali McClymont a friend I’ve known since my Uni days. Ali is an artist but has had his fingers deep into technology his whole life and is also a fantastic web and graphic designer. He explained to me that during his time at the Royal College of Art he noticed that the majority of artists there were complete technophobes. This is such a shame because these are really creative people with fantastic ideas.

I told him about Nerd TV interview #9 that Robert Cringely did with Anina who is an international model but also a blogger and mobile technology power user. Its great to see non techies using the web in interesting ways as she is with 360 Degree Fashion. What’s also great is that she’s so keen on showing others in her world that its not so hard after all. Its not that artists are rubbish with computers, its just that they need to be shown a little bit.

Ali is developing a great new site to help artists with their portfolio, biography and blog. It’s powered by Wordpress and he’s got a few tricks up his sleave that sound really interesting to me. This could really be a great community thing. Lets get these artists on the web!

On a similar note I was talking to Toby Richardson, an old School friend, while I was up in Scotland last week. He’s a great musician but has found it hard to find other artists with similar tastes and direction to team up with. It can take several months of playing together to realise that they don’t want the same thing which can be a real waste of time. It strikes me that an artist with a blog would find it much easier to find the right sort of musicians to play with. You can listen to The Summerines new track “I know you well” here.