I went to Activate 09 today. “an exclusive one-day summit providing a unique gathering for leaders working across all sectors to share, debate and create strategies for answering some of the world’s biggest questions.” I was there for most of the day today, though I sadly had to miss a chunk of the afternoon. Here’s …
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Notes from C21 Social Media Forum
C21’s Social Media Forum said that the event would provide a creative workshop that defines and develops how the producers channels and rights owners can work with social media platforms to develop business and extend creativity. And generate new revenue streams today! Despite not being desperately bothered about generating new revenue streams, I was sufficiently …
SXSW panel snippets – ‘EA Dead Space: A Deep Media Case Study’
Andrew Green (Online Marketing Manager, Electronic Arts) Frank Rose (Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine) Ian Schafer (CEO, Deep Focus) Chuck Beaver (Senior Producer, Electronic Arts) Ben Templesmith (Director, Singularity7) Abstract: This in-depth case-study reveals the method and the madness behind Electronic Arts use of cross platform marketing to communicate separate, self-contained elements of the much anticipated …
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SXSW panel snippets – ‘HOWTO: 149 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Blog With Credibility!’
Merlin Mann (43 Folders, You Look Nice Today) John Gruber (Daring Fireball) Abstract: John Gruber (DaringFireball.net) and Merlin Mann (43Folders.com) discuss the current state of blogging as a medium for creative expression, weighing the opportunities and challenges of building a thoughtful online presence in a world where everybody owns a printing press. They’ll consider the …
SXSW panel snippets – ‘Is Privacy Dead or Just Very Confused?’
danah boyd (Researcher, Microsoft Research) Judith Donath (MIT Media Laboratory) Alice Marwick (PhD Candidate, New York University) Siva Vaidhyanathan (Assoc Professor, University of Virginia) Abstract: While many assert that “privacy is dead,” the complex ways in which people try to control access and visibility suggest that it’s just very confused. Rather than throwing the baby …
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PaperCamp
It’s been a whole week since PaperCamp (a fringe event to Jeremy, Russell and James‘ BookCamp) organised by Matt Jones. I drifted between the two events (meaning I missed a couple of things, including Karsten Schmidt talking about fiducial marker generation and machine readable origami markers). I mostly stayed at PaperCamp though, so here’s a …
Social Telly – a roundup of social viewing stuff
Television has always been a social thing. Whether it’s because you’re watching it with family and friends at home, watching football in the pub, chatting at school or work with friends about that programme that you all love the night before, television is about much more than a broadcast. During the recent US election, I …
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ReLIVE08 Closing Keynote – When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up
Back from two days in Milton Keynes for ReLIVE08, the Open University’s conference on Researching and Living in Virtual Worlds. The abstract said that Roo Reynolds has offered to not pre-prepare any slides for his closing keynote, but instead create a short presentation on the fly during the other sessions. Drawing on the notes and …
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This could be heaven or this could be hell…
Roo Reynolds plays “Hotel California” from Tom Armitage on Vimeo. Thanks to Tom for capturing this video. That was fun.
Playful
Here are my notes from Playful. James Wallis (Spaace) woke us all up by blowing our minds. He’s shared his slides (also embedded below) as well as publishing some notes on his blog. Why are they called ‘plays’ when there is no play? 2 types of entertainment: spectacle and narrative OuLiPo The story of Three …