Notes and quotes from media and web events
Whenever I attend talks, presentations or conferences I try to write up the sessions for this blog, or on Inside Guardian.
With my various jobs, or just out of interest, I go to lots of events to do with the news industry, copyright and media policy and regulation. These are some of the ones I have covered on currybetdotnet:
- Nic Newman, Emily Bell and Peter Barron discuss "#UKelection2010, mainstream media and the role of the internet" - July 2010
- #dendatameet notes - Julian Tait, Paul Bradshaw, and the spirit of Max Gadney - May 2010
- #dendatameet notes - Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson of ProPublica - May 2010
- #dendatameet notes - Oscar Westlund and mobile news - May 2010
- Content Strategy, Manhattan Style - my notes from the stage - April 2010
- Privacy, distribution, licences and standards - more notes on the London Linked Data meet-up - March 2010
- London Linked Data meet up - September 2009
- Andrew Walkinshaw of Timetric on 'numbers that vary against time' at #newsinnovation - July 2009
- Activate 09 at The Guardian - July 2009
- Copyright in the Digital Age - SIIA issue briefing - April 2009
- An Open BBC? at Broadcasting House - March 2009
- Channel 4's Andy Duncan calls for Internet regulation at NESTA event - January 2009
- The business of "Rip, Mix and Burn" at NESTA - November 2008
- Last night's TechCrunch / BBC debate on a 'Common Platform' - June 2008
- NEWSPLAN 2000 at the 2006 AUKML conference - October 2006
- Torin Douglas on the digital media explosion at the AUKML conference in Edinburgh - September 2006
- BBC News 50th anniversary - Political coverage - July 2004
- Here is an illustrated summary of the BBC News 50 Year celebrations - July 2004
Another type of event I enjoy are those about ecommerce and new media best practice include. Some of the best I've seen include:
- 'Social media for competitive intelligence' by Marydee Ojala at Online Information - December 2009
- 'Marketing at Seatwave' by James Hamlin at the 2009 Ecommerce Expo - November 2009
- 'Persuading users to buy & eliminating checkout drop-offs' by Trenton Moss from Webcredible at the 2009 Ecommerce Expo - November 2009
- 'How little changes made a big difference at BA.com' by Mike Tomlinson at the 2009 Ecommerce Expo - November 2009
- Carzone.ie and Euroffice at the Endeca e-Business Forum - May 2009
- 'Beautiful Basics' - Ashley Friedlein at the Endeca e-Business Forum - May 2009
- Thoughts, notes and quotes from the Online Information 2008 Seminars - December 2008
- 'Social Media ROI': Chinwag Live at the 2008 Ecommerce Expo - November 2008
I'm interested in issues around preservation and library skills in a digital age, and have written about several events I've attended related to that:
- Stacks, Readers, Staff - Building the British Library - March 2003
- The future of 'the future' - the British Library and technology - March 2003
- The fragile future of newspapers at the British Library - March 2003
- You can't exhibit code - a tour around the Scottish Museum - September 2006
- A tour of the National Library of Scotland - September 2006
- Front Page at the British Library - August 2006
- "People Don't Like Basements But Tapes Do" - A Tour of the BBC Film Archive at Windmill Road - April 2005
I've also sometimes blogged about going to events that aren't part of the core IA / journalism / digital media theme of this blog, like a "BBC Radiophonic Workshop Q&A at the Camden Roundhouse", "Let The Right One In - Director's talk with Tomas Alfredson at the Barbican", "'Designing Change' at the British Museum" and "The Future Of Cities: Grand Designs Live".