About

I’m Tony Scott, a London-based web designer/developer.

I’m also the co-ordinator of WordCamp UK.

The usual disclaimer: opinions expressed in my web + broadcasting blog and elsewhere on this site are entirely personal and do not represent the views of any past or present employer.

My interests include open source, open standards, semantic web, linked data, music, science fiction and real ale.

A bit of history

I was brought up in Stalybridge, Manchester and educated at Hyde Grammar School before taking a one year Art Foundation Course at Tameside College.

I then attended Manchester Metropolitan University studying Design for Communications, which included film and television theory and practice. The course was housed in the former Capitol Cinema, later ABC television studios, in Didsbury.

Following graduation I joined the BBC in 1981, based in Manchester working in studio and outside broadcast cameras.

In 1986 I transferred to Lime Grove Studios London, then the BBC Current Affairs Centre, which included working on the early days of breakfast television.

Two years later I moved to BBC Television Centre, and from cameras to the lighting section as a vision controller. I worked on all the shows produced for network television, everything from Top of the Pops to Grandstand.

In parallel with my BBC work I’ve been involved with the internet since the early 1990′s, starting with a text based bulletin board running on a home built PC clone.

In 1995 I became involved in a joint BECTU and NUJ project Media Unions, involving Mike Holderness, Tony Lennon and myself.

In 1997 Tony Lennon and myelf built bectu.org.uk, one of the first UK union sites.

In 2007 I become a freelance web designer/developer.