Open Tech 2008 is
an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring Open Source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at.
The Schedule includes the very lovely Kim Plowright talking about art history with Matt Webb , which will be worth the price of admission on its own. Other things not to miss include Gavin Starks talking about AMEE , Suw Charman doing ORG things, Simon Willison on OpenID , Gavin Bell on that and other distributed federated stuff, Tom Loosemore on ‘The Bastard Child of Biard and Berners Lee’, Adrian Hon on ‘ We Tell Stories ‘ and many many more.
I’ve offered a short slot on Current Cost meters which has been accepted and is scheduled to happen during the 4-5pm session in the Upper Hall . Nick O’Leary has agreed to help me out too. It will mainly involve us talking about how (and why) you’d want to track your houseR...
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Laptop StickersFrom: rooreynolds.com
Post Date: 2008-03-24 04:38:05
Ever since the Dedicated Followers of Fashion post about laptop stickers used a photo I’d snapped of Cory Doctorow’s heavily stickered ThinkPad, I’ve been a(n even) keen(er) observer of laptop stickers and their owners. I’ve been avidly photographing them, uploading them to Flickr and tagging them ‘ laptopstickers ‘. Here are a few examples.
Gavin Bell
(Sparse, Apple logo not obscured.)
Matt Biddulph
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more Attention: the backchannel revisitedFrom: rooreynolds.com
Post Date: 2008-03-18 09:21:05
Not long before leaving for SXSW, I had posted some some thoughts and notes about ‘the backchannel’ . The timing turned out to be pretty good, since the talk within and around SXSW became pretty much all about the various uses of backchannels during the conference. Twitter (which was discovered by many people at SXSW last year) is the obvious one, but there was the official Meebo chat rooms set up for each panel, plus thousands of blog posts . Cote flatteringly described ...
more Ambient SkypeFrom: rooreynolds.com
Post Date: 2008-03-12 16:59:57
For the first time in my life, I used a Skype video call with my wife today as an ambient backdrop to life, rather than just as tool for having a conversation.I’d always wanted to try it, ever since hearing my friend and colleague Dave Newbold mention, in a presentation he was giving a couple of years ago about the near future for technology and social interaction, something he’d heard described as ‘ambient Skype’, whereby people leave a voice client running in the bac...
more SXSW day 5 - Soulja BoyFrom: rooreynolds.com
Post Date: 2008-03-11 16:59:16
Jane McGonigal gave a wonderful keynote on games and ARGs. Not dissimilar to her ‘Reality is Open’ presentation at GDC recently, so these are not her SXSW slides, but there’s an overlap.
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Other people have made excellent notes already, which are much more complete than my own. Here are some:
Brad King
Dan Hon
Kitten Fluff
Tony Walsh
During the keynote, Jane mentioned that as part of playing an ARG, she had witnessed &#...
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