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November 5, 2009: The local Bonfire Night shows were few, far and in-between; the Coop fresh out of sparklers. And besides, it was raining. In creative frustration, we came up with the idea of photographing indoor fireworks – Pete suggested throwing some bicarbonate of soda onto the gas ring, or salt, or pepper. I suggested a [...] Birmingham New St Station here I come It looks like I’ve reached that moment in a blogger’s life when you log into your poor neglected blog(s), make apologies to folks for the lack of posting, explain why and then make a new promise to report back a bit more often in future. Except… as Neil Gaiman once [...] An auto-level adjusted green palm on the Southend seafront. Bollards at 4am. A bench in Southend at 4am At 4am on the 4th of the 4th – on Saturday just gone – my phone alarm rang, I hauled myself out of a rather snug hotel bed on Essex’s east coast and walked out into the night [...] Who was Ada? Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She also wrote the [...]
Legendary kebab panel at SXSWi Undoubtedly the best twitter hashtag of SXSWi, #kebab quickly became the WTF session of the whole interactive festival. Set up by School of Everything, Tuttle, Fix My Street and others, it was a word-of-twitter-mouth, rogue, wind-up unpanel that took over room 12 and brought a bit of classic UK punk [...] Making whuffie at SXSWi using the power of Twitter. 11.30am Making Whuffie: Raising Social Capital in Online Communities The language of the internet is lagging behind the tech and culture changes… which is presumably why ‘whuffie’ has been picked from a sci-fi story from the creator of Boing Boing in which currency is not money but [...] Here’s the beginning of my plan for South by South-West Interactive in Austin next week. (Yes, that’s Austin, Texas!) If you’re there and you want to meet, borrow my extension cord or tell me about something good going on, I’ll be on Twitter – @katchooo (though please note my Sony Irksome phone only picks up [...] |
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