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geeKyoto 2008

March 20th, 2008 • Ben • 2 comments • Related • Filed Under

Announcing…geeKyoto 2008 - Living In The Changed World 10:00 - 16:30 - Saturday 17th May 2008. Conway Hall, London. £20.

We broke the world. Now what?

Mark Simpkins and Ben Hammersley announce a one day conference in central London, with designers, technologists, artists, architects, policy-makers, explorers, economists and scientists, and clever people like you, to discuss the future and how we’ll live in it.

Inspired by TED and last year’s Interesting2007 event, we are holding our own conference in London to look into the theme that interest us: change in the world.

We have curated a day that will be inspiring and insightful. We think you’ll leave having learnt something new, with new ways to look at the world and how it changes, and new strategies and models of thought for further action.

geeKyoto 2008 is a cross-discipline event, targeted at everybody with an interest in the world we live in.

Speaking so far we have:

With more to be confirmed. Book your tickets here.

geeKyoto2008 - a conference you’ll want to go to

February 28th, 2008 • Ben • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under
Announcing geeKyoto2008. Mark Simpkins and I are putting on a one day conference in London, on the 17th May, to discuss how we’ll all live, given that we’ve broken the planet. While everyone else argues over whose fault it is, let’s get on and make the cool stuff we need. Top speakers! Great topics! More to come soon! Book your ticket now!

This week’s tabdump

January 18th, 2008 • Ben • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under
Continuing the great tradition of emptying my browser bookmarks onto my weblog, this spiffy new design gets its first load of linky goodness today. Icon magazine asked 50 of the most influential designers, architects, and thinkers for their Manifesto - here they are. Flash-based magazines are the new black as Magwerk shows. For those of you more audio-based, Ira Glass is interviewed here. For video people, the wondrous Adam Curtis explains what has gone wrong with TV journalism. Overuse of the online teleprompter, perhaps. Disassociation from pain? Runners know all about it. Here’s a lovely typeface, a really interesting data visualisation for your site tool, and a great guide to podcasting gear. Meanwhile, Richard Sambrook is obviously stalking me. Moderating large IRC channels with a bot that only allows you to say things that haven’t been typed in the channel before - a very clever technique indeed.