Posts Tagged ‘social networking’

Chris Heathcote has posted his Pirates & Scalpels slideshow, as mentioned here, so you can get even greater context.
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There's a PaperCamp heading to a city near you. If that city happens to be New York, anyway. One in San Francisco is being mooted, with maybe more to come elsewhere. You could always set one [...]

The next session's title, Why Everything On The Internet Is The Opposite Of How It Is In Print, intrigued me, and prompted some great discussion. Session leader, Mary Harrington, outlined what she thinks are the five qualities of books:
- physicality
- fixity
- boundedness
- authority
- universality
The physical shape of books is underlined by the cost of [...]

After a lacklustre lunch at Camino in Regent Quarter (tasty food but slow and surly service), I decided I should ignore the exciting conversations happening upstairs at PaperCamp in honour of some exciting conversations happening downstairs at BookCamp.
First up was a session suggested by Kevin O'Neill (not that one) to discuss the creation of [...]

On Wednesday evening, I went to the Prince Charles to a free screening of

I've been quite the social party animal this past week. 'Tis the season and all, except that most of the events weren't actually related Christmas. It's all been a bit mad, so be prepared for a series of long posts.
On Tuesday night I went to the Webby Night at the ICA, which was quite [...]

I went to the launch party for 2gether09 at The Hub on York Way on Wednesday night. I'd been past the venue a couple of times, but never been inside. It's rather nice; a reclaimed Victorian warehouse kitted out with lots of modern fixtures and fittings and a nice vaulted wooden ceiling.
The wine flowed [...]

This session was, for me, the least successful or useful. I think partly it was the timing; it was, perhaps, too serious a subject for the time of day. I'm not saying we shouldn't discuss serious subjects in the evening, but coming after the fun of playing silly games, a quite amusing overview of the [...]

This particular session, run by Johnnie Moore, was surprisingly the most useful one for me. I went in not knowing what to really expect from the title, except that "more play" sounded fun. Although I knew there were bound to be games at first, I still had an awful sinking feeling for a moment that [...]

I found the emphasis behind the session for Future of the Book really fascinating, especially as it's one that's inciting so many contentious discussions at the moment. There was a minor kerfuffle about it on Twitter a month or so ago, prompted in part by something Tom Coates said, which was really interesting but awkward [...]

I struggled a bit to find the focus to write about last Thursday's Amp08 event at NESTA. Ironically, that's perhaps the most appropriate thing I could find to say about it, as the event seemed to lack a little focus itself.
A lack of focus was to be expected, though, for a couple of reasons. [...]