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 […]
The Story 2018: Zoe Whitley
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 […]
The Story 2018: Camilla Wright
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 […]
The Story 2018: Elijah
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 […]
The Story 2018: Mandy Rose
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 […]
The Story 2018: Tanya Byrne
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, […]
The Story 2018: Lisa-Marie Neudert
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 […]
The Story 2018 Conference: Juno Dawson
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; […]
The Story 2018 Conference: Ministry of Stories
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. […]
SMW:Wimbledon and IBM
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 […]
SMW London – Social across the Shopper Journey
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 […]
Playful13 – Nature of Games
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 […]
Playful13: Making Mishief
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 […]
Playful13: Designing Controllers
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 […]
Playful 13: Designing with playfulness
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 […]
SMW13: Social, Sport and ROI
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 […]
LeWeb London: Peer to Peer lending
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 […]
LeWeb London: Chris Guillebeau
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. […]
LeWeb London: John Perry Barlow
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 […]
LeWeb London: Nick Halstead and Data
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 […]