It’s funny because it’s true.
I’m looking forward to seeing enraged Liverpudlians burning Radio Userland boxes and ageing copies of Wired Magazine outside the Cavern and beating their kids if they catch them reading Scripting News.
I’m also looking forward to the day that Mr Winer makes a stand for world peace by staying all day in bed with…
sorry, I can’t think of any woman blogger who won’t flame me to hell for completing that sentence with her name.
Hugh MacLeod organised a fantastic geek dinner tonight (err.. last night) and yours truly spent one hour of it wandering around and interrupting the fun (54:02min – 18.5MB)
It really was as much fun as it sounds. Everyone was just amazed at the numbers of people and just how well organised it all was. I don’t normally stay up until 2.30 am to post something, but this was a special occasion. I didn’t really feel I could go to bed when there were such geeky moments to share with the world. I felt I’d be letting my fellow geeks down if I postponed it for another six hours or so. But now I must go to bed or else I’ll start rambling.
The wiki page where we all signed up will now be turned into a record of the event with links to people blogging about it, to photographs and any other podcasts.
Nightie night.
Bonus audio: Kosso has a podcast of Scoble’s speech
ICA conference? Check.
Lambeth Council interview? Check.
Geek Dinner – just a few minutes away.
I’m touching down in *$$s in The Strand to transfer the audio I got today. Tomorrow is going to be a big upload and publish day. I’m thinking of using a wiki page to distribute audio from the conference – encouraging others to add their thoughts a la LesBlogs mmmmmm… will see.
Had a nice chat with Andrew Webster, it just needs tidying up and my coughing fit editing out. Fingers crossed it will be up on Public Service Conversations soon.
Tomorrow I’m off to In The City Interactive at the ICA lots of cool speakers and attendees should provide some interesting podcast fodder.
I have to leave early as I’m going down to Clapham to record an interview Andrew Webster at Lambeth Council for Public Service Conversations
And then, if I’ve any space left on my minidisc, it’ll be whirring away at the monster London Geek Dinner at the Texas Embassy with Robert Scoble and Hugh MacLeod among 200 other assembled geeky types.
Phew, bit of a lie in on Wednesday I think.
Off to the London Company of Friends barbecue in SW8 last night. Lots of interesting people, many professing to be ex-readers of Fast Company. Uh-oh, there’s photographic evidence.
For those who don’t know, the lady on my left is Helen Keegan, she of the still popular “bodcast”
Many thanks to Matt O’Neill for organising, slaving over hot coals all evening, photography and not (noticeably) minding me calling him Adam.
I’ve just had confirmation that I’ll be speaking in one of the IDM Academy slots at Internet World on 16th June.
I shall be spouting on from 10.15 to 10.45 about using blogs and podcasts for direct marketing purposes – if you’re coming to Earls Court on Thursday do pop along and say hello.
rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s Weblog
Wa-hey – top of Rex Hammock’s list of podcasts he’d pay for is:
“1. City tours (really, any kind of tours, including museums, historic battlefields, national parks, etc.) : I would purchase downloads of MP3s I could listen to in a rental car, driving into a downtown from an airport. Not like GPS directions, but fun, helpful information that tells me what I’m seeing as I drive in and gives me ideas of what to do while in town. Or, produce a series of “jogging from your hotel” directions that tells a jogger what he or she is running by.”
Rex, have you heard a Perfect Path podwalk? Or Sushiradio? Is this the sort of thing you’re thinking of or this? If not, what would be different that would get you to open up your sporran? How big can I expect the cheque to be? How else can I be of service? ;-D
Media Week – Podcasting takes hold
Media Week: “As media owners and advertisers prepare to go to try harder and get involved with the iPod revolution, Sean Hargrave finds out how the “play now, listen to it later” craze could be about to take the industry by storm.”
A long article that only looks at podcasting as an extension or evolution of radio… or else a major advertising opportunity. The closing paragraph just about sums it up:
“This opens up a new channel for radio stations as well as smart brands. The latter now have the opportunity of sponsoring shows or “podvertising” during them as well as producing their own audio content, so long as it is compelling enough for consumers to download.”
Thanks to the eagle-eyed Helen for the link.
If you’ve ever done a workshop or an awayday with me, it’s highly likely that you’ll have played “Same or Different” It’s a generic classification game we play about all sorts of subjects to clarify how people think about a particular question.
Same or Different is at the base of all sorts of things we do in the knowledge economy. We’re always asking, is this thing the same as this other thing or is it different? And the answers is usually, it’s both, they’re the same in these ways and they’re different in others.
In restructuring an organisation or setting up a project, which bits go together and which bits are apart? How is that sameness actually manifested in people’s day to day activities? What does it mean to be different? Under what circumstances might it change?
What happens when people disagree about sameness or difference? What happens when I think I’m the same as you but you think we’re different? How might I convince you of my point of view? Do I need to? Is it important? Should I just accept that we differ on this point?
I blog. Perhaps you do too. You may consider my blog to be the same as yours. I might agree. Or disagree. Other people might lump us together – we might be the only ones who perceive sufficient difference for it to matter.
I podcast. Perhaps you do too. You may consider my podcast to be the same as yours. I might agree. Or disagree. Other people might lump us together – we might be the only ones who perceive sufficient difference for it to matter.
So you might say, “What does it matter? We’re similar – isn’t that enough? Surely that’s a much better way of putting it?”
To me settling for saying “similar” avoids asking (and answering) the important questions, it’s hiding in vagueness. It might be the best and most accurate answer in the end, but it’s not nearly as productive as delving deeper in to sameness and difference.
It’s Friday, thank God, and I get to talk about playground stuff, social etiquette and global acceptance. Bonus question: who are you? – yes you, at the back, the quiet ones.
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