Last weekend, a friend suggested a trip to Barcelona for a long weekend – some of his friends owned a boat in the harbour there so we could have somewhere to sleep. The boats somewhere in the middle there. Easyjet flights were booked and so I set off for 4 days in Barcelona. I’d visited […]
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
I went to a blogger screening last night of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. This was arranged via Twitter by Sizemore, with about 30 people turning up for the show. The film is made by the same people who did The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, 2 films I’ve not seen nor really had the […]
Rick Astley Fans?
The BBC reports from Liverpool St station, where there was a live Rick Mob yesterday. For those who have not seen it, a Rick Roll is where you send someone a link and it goes to Rick Astley’s Never Going to Give You Up. It hit the peak (and maybe jumped the shark) with You […]
Twitter Frustrations
I’m getting really frustrated with Twitter at the moment and it has nothing to do with the service itself but to the explosion in use. Since the start of the month I’ve received 50 new followers, very few of whom I’ve followed back. Some of it, I’m sure, is because I’ve been on the service […]
Over the Air and Torchwood
Yesterday and today I’m at Over the Air, a mobile camp/conference. At some point it seemed a good idea for some friends to make this – Torchwood Sweded. From idea to on the screen in 9 hours. Click To Play
Updated the blog
Well, I’ve updated the blog to WP2.5 and I think it’s all working; if you see anything let me know!
BarCampBrighton and SL connections
Aleks Krotoski talking about the social graph. [missed the start] A social psychologist, trying to examine connections Pathways can be mapped across friends and people. Mass friending…impact the data and how the network connects. there are certain relationships and strengths of relationships. You can technological measure strength but difficult as you get to semantics. Adding […]
BarcampBrighton and Cloud Computing
Jeff Barr, from Amazon, was at BarcampBrighton as part of a long European tour, talking up cloud computing. apologised for going to be a little more commercial than others….but taken out the prices so it’s not a sales pitch! been at Amazon for 6 years.  Saw real potential, the first catalog service. they started sending […]
BarCampBrighton and Stories and Games
Adrian Hon from Six to Start talks about Games and Stories Creative Director at Six to Start, make ARGs, but not what I’m going to talk about it ARGs are games that use multiple media or media in interesting ways to tell a story. Email, twitter, newspapers, IM, GPS etc. Â What I want to talk […]
Jane McGonigal Keynote at SXSW
Jane McGonigal Keynote. The Lost Ring Video played. A call for help. Being going a week – are you in? going to talk yo you about alternate realities. instead of trying to make games more realistic, trying to make the real world more like games. we need more alt. realities and the real world needs […]
BarCampBrighton – Slorpedo
This is about Slorpedo – a mixed reality game in Second Life based on an Icehouse game Torpedo. Difficult to play in real world, due to complex rules. so fits well with a virtual world built at HackDay London, uses reacTIVision How it used to work – runs on laptop (server), interacts with SL, via […]
BarcampBrighton – Portable Information
A group panel about portable data and information Jeremy Keith Microformats – semantic web hCard is probably the most popular. there is an existing format called vCard. hCard is a 1:2:1 mapping of vCard. Use of vCard info on a web page. same details as in your address book/phone. the idea behind microformats is not […]
BarCampBrighton – the morning so far
I decided last night to come down to BarCamp Brighton, when I saw there were some tickets made available. A friend was travelling down so I got a lift straight to the campus and arrived just as it was kicking off. The usual introductions were made and everyone did the traditional standup and give three […]
Jane McGonigal dancing Soulja Boy
The final part of the excellent keynote at SXSW today was a dance… Click To Play
Self-replicating Awesomeness at SXSW
Deborah Schultz, Chris Heuer, Jeremiah Owyang, Tara Hunt, Hugh MacLeod, David Parmet  DP: Brian Oberkirch put this together – he asked 2 questions. How to market into community without being too marketer like. And how do you build a community around what you are doing? What does ‘no marketing’ look like? How can we use […]
Sexual Privacy Online – SXSW
discussing the aspects of Sexual Privacy online.  Violet Blue, Jonathan Moore, John d’Alderio, Zoe Margulis, Jason Schultz VB: fetishes…online allows you to seek this even if you did not seek in real life, but could cause issues. online can be a healthy way to let people express their fetish. Sexuality and sexuality online calls into […]
Charlene Li and Revolutionaries at SXSW
Charlene Li about the changing of corporations and social media. Examples of the change: the HD DVD key and Digg. Jericho and the peanuts. Shaun Daly was a fan of Jericho drove the change – you had to have something physical that CBS could not ignore. They bought it back, and it’s doing OK. CBS […]
SXSW – ARGS and Games
Dan Hon, Tony Walsh and Dee Cook Tony Walsh, Phantom Compass, Toronto, Games design. Fallen, Regenesis. Dee Cook, working on ARGs, since 2003. Worked on World without Oil Dan Hon, Six to Start. worked on Perplex City, working with Channel 4 education DH: ARGS are a new way of telling stories, using all forms. People […]
Steven Johnson and Henry Jenkins
Keynote at SXSW Saturday. Notes, not a true live blog. Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson SJ: have you seen another wave of the backlash, the dumbing down? HJ: these things do come in waves and we’re probably overdue. Never underestimate the desire of parents to see their children as dumb, it’s easy to imagine our […]
Tony on Ads
I asked Tony what his favourites were – World of Warcraft. Click To Play