Jarvis Cocker WARNING: liveblogged – left in first person This is about the Extraordinary Artists are storytellers, they tell us different versions of the story about what it means to be a human being. Lots of people want to be an artist, but everyone of you is an artist, but perhaps you have not realised it yet maybe you have been looking for information on how to be an artist in the wrong place. You are trying to be unique, like everyone else. But you unique and maybe you are overlooking at in your quest to be unique. I’m going…
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Zoe Whitley (Tate Modern) She wants to talk about the “never meet your heroes†statement…because she’s never met hers. It’s about expectations. When you meet people that are larger than your life, you don’t want to meet any who may show something that does not meet that, that shows their imperfections. She wants to talk about artists as people. She can’t assume that anyone has seen the exhibition she curated, so how does she talk about the exhibition if you have not seen it. So, she’s going to talk about the artists. On Monday the Obama portraits were unveiled. Her…
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WARNING: Liveblogged. Edited for clarity Camilla Wright is the founder of Popbitch You think you know what the story of our time…but often what you see is what one paper wants you see, or an advertiser wants, or a couple of people made up. So what we see becomes narrow. Popbitch can be broader. Founded over 20 years ago, every week they send out about 500k emails, covering the news of the week. In 1998, (the time of Britney Spears, One More Time) pop culture was not the daily currency it is now. Pop for 1998 was just for kids,…
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WARNING: Liveblogged, only minor edits Elijah (and on twitter) talked about his history with Grime music and culture from London pirate radio in early 2000s. Jamaican parents, born in Hackney, lived there all life. Got involved in music in late teens, eg in Notting hill carnival 1994. The sound developed, reggae, jungle, garage through to grime He listened to pirate radio, and did not realise that not everyone had the same experience; he thought the radio was the radio, music is music, grew up listening too all types of local music. It was something he wanted to do that..but was…
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WARNING: Liveblogged. Only minor edits/amends About 25 years ago, she found herself watching a tape that had arrived in the post. There were shots of mirrors around the house. Then colonel Gordon Henshaw started talking..about how mentally you don’t feel older, the mirrors show you the reality of time He would have been the last person you would go to…and wouldn’t necessary ask the question. but in his home with his own camera, he was great. This was the first of Video Nation. 2 min stories at 10:29, just before Newsnight. Before youtube, something not seen much before. Gordon was…
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Note: this was liveblogged at The Story 2018. Minor amends and edits only Will be talking about ‘Who am i’ It should be a simple as ‘I’m Tanya‘. But is there anyone in the room who hasn’t asked further. To explore that, will be telling the story of how she was born Wed 22nd Dec, her mother was due to have a caesarean the following morning. Her mother knew the family would become three in the morning. It did, and after a few weeks they went home. That was the nice story. The real story? It was the coldest winter…
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Note: this was liveblogged at the time. Minor amends and edits only Lisa-Maria Neudert works at the Oxford Internet Institute, researching how algorithms are being used to manipulate public opinion. about how we as a society are having public conversations and how we are participating in public life So this is about conversational propaganda. Starts with where are you in moments..eg Brexit and Trump They are investigating whether what had influence on these, eg Russian propaganda. Not sure yet, but there is definitely an impact from online life. It is global, high impact and very real time..through the web, with…
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Note: this was liveblogged at the time. Minor amends and edits only Juno Dawson This talk may not be fully on brief… it’s about the side hustle of being a story teller. She is a storyteller first, and everything else second. but there is always the side hustle. She got into writing a weird way; she was a primary school teacher in Brighton.. she was borrowing the books from her kids. There was a book with an apple on the front that a lot of girls were reading – it was Twilight, started borrowing more, it was felt to be…
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Note: this was liveblogged at the time. Minor amends and edits only From their site: The Ministry of Stories is a local writing and mentoring centre in east London, where anyone aged eight to 18 can come and discover their own gift for writing. What do they do: Writing and mentoring space in East London. Hidden behind a shop. Inspired by the Superhero shop and story telling group in the US. Set up about 7 or 8 years ago. So how did they come to sell monster supplies? They had to work out what type of the shop they wanted,…
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Another session from Social Media Week London, this one social media, Wimbledon and their partnership with IBM. Alex Willis (Wimbledon) In 2011 the Wimbledon team set out a 3 year plan to improve their digital experience. At the time they had started to engage on social, with 300k FB fans and 150k Twitter followers. They had 2 websites (one for all year round and one for the championships), and used radio and video; they had an app same as site. But their channels were not connected. Their 3 year plan was about: Extending reach Ensuring everything on brand Extend channels…
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For Social Media Week London, I managed to get to go to a few sessions, fitting them in around the working day. The first one I attended was run by Ogilvy, who presented about using social across a shopper journey – Awareness, Consideration, Purchase, Loyalty, Advocacy. Well presented and a good model, it sort of set the scene however for the week – I’m probably not quite the right audience for this week, it looks to be more targeted as the less experienced end of those who work (or would like to work) in social media. I’ve been using a…
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Pippin Barr – What are curious games Pippin is a game designer, artist and critic who has done many wonderful things that you’re probably already too busy cooing over to bother finish reading this. He’s just spent the past month working to create the Digital Marina Abramovich Institute, where visitors can experience exercises designed by Abramovich and view some performance art. He’ll be talking about Curious Games. His wife calls the games he makes curious games. Will be talking about a bunch of his games, and reflect what games can do. So what does it all mean? Games allow for…
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Dani Lurie. Making Mischief Graphic designer and a writer. Is really highly excitable. Especially about getting people to interact with the world in interesting ways. So that brings us to mischief. It has traditionally been bad. Associated with troublemakers. So why is it good, why worth talking about. When a toddler, her and her brothers had broken the parent’s VCR by feeding it biscuits. That was mischief. Bit it’s about learning, experiencing, Experiential learning is an important developmental process, how we grow When studying psychology, leaned ot enjoy experiments, developing them. TO allow people to do just enough to shake…
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George Buckenham – Things that go Squish George “makes games and things†– often silly (Punch The Custard, A Bastard), often hacking existing things (Proteus Frog mod; Sweareoke Guitar Hero mod) and sometimes just straight up, fiendish games (Hell Is Other People, CUBES). George is going to be talking about videogames and their relationship with the hardware Makes videogames and other things. Some physical. But you can make more money with videogames. One thing that goes squish is custard…Punch the Custard. You have to punch your custard more times than the other person! You put one hand on foil and…
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Duncan Fitzimmons. Director at Vitamins A small and nimble design agency; they work across a wide range of industries and applications and everything is multi-disciplinary. Look to create a sense of magic and wonder in everything they do. The talk is about how they do that and how playfulness is involved. Samsung came along; about designing a phone for the elderly market. They were concerned about that, had seen some of the phones, not really what they wanted to do. But how they could make it better. When doing research, the audience gave ‘expected answers’. So they looked to add…
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Hosted by:Richard Ayres, CEO Seven League @7League @richardayers Panel: Xavier Bidault, NBA @NBAUK; Abigail Sawyer, The Jockey Club @TheJockeyCLub @ajesawyer ; Richard Clarke Arsenal @Arsenal @MrRichardClarke The premise of the panel Is the ability to influence your sporting community and the wider media landscape through social media is a blessing or a curse? Is there risk for of raising your head above the parapet? Do the haters make it hateful or exciting? What do sports and their participants want out of social media? Reach? Retention? Revenue? And what about all the participation in sport that goes on every day but…
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Sharing Economy Money Panel Moderated by: Nina Dos Santos, News Anchor & Correspondent, CNN World Business Today Samir Desai, Co-Founder & CEO, Funding Circle Raffael Johnen, Co-Founder & CEO, Auxmoney.com Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club For established industries, the sharing marketplace — with rapidly shifting social, cultural, and technological disruptions — is forcing them to respond too. Never more true than in the financial sector. Does crowd funding threaten traditional funding sources indefinitely? We’ll hear from the $$$ experts about the state of funding and financial models in The Sharing Economy. Photo by: Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/ NDS Crowdsourced funding…
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Chris Guillebeau, Writer, Entrepreneur and Traveler I was thinking about what can I share, what can I contribute to this conversation. I wanted to talk about adventure and travel. But adventure is almot an opposing value to optimisation, efficiency etc. I recently finished an adventure to visit every country in the world, over 11 years. It could have been quicker if i’d been more efficient. But even so, it brought a lot of meaning. There was a value in adventure; in meeting people. There are a lot of peopel sharing the same valueof freedom, of self evaluation. THat they wante…
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John Perry Barlow, Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation Photo by:Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/ I’ve been a hippie since sometime in 1965,when I quit being a beatnik. I’m fine with it, as part of what it’s meant, is that I know which side I am on in the struggle between certical and horizontal, religion and net and authority from consensus. I started writing songs for a band called the Grateful Dead, and there was also something that we did that was practical. By it’s nature, hippie is often someone who has done a bad job, but for us, it was practical. We…
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Nick Halstead, Founder & CTO, DataSift Inc How Social Sharing Built a Billion Dollar Market Nick Halstead has been at the heart of the social sharing economy for five years, creating the world’s first social sharing button and building a business upon the data that it generated. Nick will talk about the evolution of the sharing economy, from the early days of RSS and TweetMeme, to the prominence of social now and give his insight on the future of sharing in a social driven world. Photo by: “Luca Sartoni – http://www.heisenbergmedia.com/” What Nick has created, is powered by the sharing…