I got to thinking - well sort of - it was that earlier posting about events we ran back in the 90's on internet stuff got me thinking about what sort of footprint these events etc had left in terms of archive materials, other than those buried (maybe) on servers and hard drives somewhere and came across these - incidentally the previous posting made mention of an event called 'Is content still King?' the event that actually took place on that world cup final day was this one:
The Future Shape of Cyberspace: Virtually There
6pm Wednesday 10th June 1998
MAC Hexagon Theatre, Birmingham UK
What will the Internet of the future look like? Will we be communicating and collaborating in three dimensions? This event brings together thinkers and practitioners to explore the worlds of VRML, virtual meetings, and avatars.
The panel will include Simon Bore (Oku Pi, London VR Group), and Dr Graham Walker an expert from BT's Labs in Martlesham.
Advance tickets are now available at the price of £4 by calling the MAC box office on 0121 440 3838 or 0121 440 4221 or through Robert Sharl consultancy if paying by cheque.
This event is a part of Rotunda's current cross-media programme "The Future Shape of Cyberspace", chaired by Robert Sharl consultancy.
For more details: auto@rotunda.sharl.co.uk. Tel:0121 693 5606.
This event is supported by CUBIT business internet club.
And then this later posting about pdfheaven a later project:
From: Charlotte Carey
Subject: PDF heaven
Pdfheaven has announced the biggest ever festival of creative acrobatics, a world's fair of exciting work in Acrobat Portable Document Format - the multi-platform, multi-application medium for exchange of digital documents.
Pdfheaven will be showcasing work that highlights the creative potential of this file format - from the visual arts and creative writing to architectural designs and diy origami, and beyond. If it's pdf they want to see it! All the work will be shown at a special event during metapod.expo in October 2000.
pdfsubmit@pdfheaven.com
http://www.pdfheaven.com
I'm not sure where I am going with all this but I guess there was a reveloution (still occuring) that we have all contributed to, lived through and in some instances and in some small way helped shape. Last year or was it the year before I got talking to Eva Pascoe (founder of Cyberia) at the time she was talking about putting together a book - something around cybercafes and possibly women or early days people (I forget now) - as briefly the marketing co-ordinator of Birmingham's first cybercafe (1995-1996) I was interested - we spoke about the possible inclusion of some Birmingham history. Not quite sure what happened with that but feel a little bit like there are some stories to tell.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Think tank spendy day trip
Just realised it is cheaper for me to take Lucy to take the train with family railcard to London and go to Science museum than going to Birmingham's own Think Tank! It really p***S me off that it costs so much to go to what used to be a free entry science museum even the concessionary rate is £6.50!!!
Rant over - wishing I'd got up early and got the train!
Rant over - wishing I'd got up early and got the train!
Thursday, August 9, 2007
2nd post internet stuff
It's strange. Now everyone uses the internet (who I know professionally at least). Ten years ago they didn't. Stef from 3form has been fulfilling his 'create something new everyday' thing and come up with this t-shirt. Take a look it's kind of funny. And made me think of some stuff.
I am reminded of a number of things. This has been on my mind a lot recently. The Internet seriously assists collective conciousness. I have been feeling very aware of the power of the internet and the changes it makes to our lives as we all share contacts, links and knowledge. Trying to imagine how things will develop, how everyone will adapt, how flat will things become is in someways hard to imagine - for me at least. I suppose it's because I have always been an advocate of the internet, seen it as positive and something to embrace. Afterall it is only really a mirror of our actual lives isn't it? but recently getting a little freaked out with all the facebook action - where will it all go? Seeing peoples lives unfold in parallel to your own though their flickr pics regardless of whether or not you've seen them in years - I kind of love it but it freaks me out.
Still I am not an internet or technologies commentator at least not at the moment. But I am reminded about a series of mini conferences we organised on behalf of Birmingham's first internet business association: CUBIT - club for user of business internet technology, sounds soooo dated now - in fact I think it did at the time. Still we managed to organise some pretty interesting events: one that sticks is: 'Is content still king?' - it was 1998 I remember it well as a big learning point for me never run an event and set it the same time as the world cup final - still I did - but we had a fullish house, Hexagon Theatre in the MAC. Not sure where I am going with this smattering of nostalgia only to say really this future speculation is interesting, futile, impossible, possibly useful. Can we remember what was talked about that evening? I think we were suggesting that transactions micro and other were the future of money making online and that content for its own sake was dead? did we anticipate this? I can't recall right now. And it's interesting that something less than 10 years ago is like a little bit of local internet history already. Did we write about it? did we blog it? updated our website, wrote a press release for sure but blogs weren't invented then were they?
It's amazing to me how the momentum and cycle of knowledge, ideas locally etc has taken off and that it's kind of nearly everyone not just the industry people. But were does it go are we saying anything? is it making us more creative? are we having the same conversations we would have anyway? or are we just documenting our lives, thoughts, relationships?
I am reminded of a number of things. This has been on my mind a lot recently. The Internet seriously assists collective conciousness. I have been feeling very aware of the power of the internet and the changes it makes to our lives as we all share contacts, links and knowledge. Trying to imagine how things will develop, how everyone will adapt, how flat will things become is in someways hard to imagine - for me at least. I suppose it's because I have always been an advocate of the internet, seen it as positive and something to embrace. Afterall it is only really a mirror of our actual lives isn't it? but recently getting a little freaked out with all the facebook action - where will it all go? Seeing peoples lives unfold in parallel to your own though their flickr pics regardless of whether or not you've seen them in years - I kind of love it but it freaks me out.
Still I am not an internet or technologies commentator at least not at the moment. But I am reminded about a series of mini conferences we organised on behalf of Birmingham's first internet business association: CUBIT - club for user of business internet technology, sounds soooo dated now - in fact I think it did at the time. Still we managed to organise some pretty interesting events: one that sticks is: 'Is content still king?' - it was 1998 I remember it well as a big learning point for me never run an event and set it the same time as the world cup final - still I did - but we had a fullish house, Hexagon Theatre in the MAC. Not sure where I am going with this smattering of nostalgia only to say really this future speculation is interesting, futile, impossible, possibly useful. Can we remember what was talked about that evening? I think we were suggesting that transactions micro and other were the future of money making online and that content for its own sake was dead? did we anticipate this? I can't recall right now. And it's interesting that something less than 10 years ago is like a little bit of local internet history already. Did we write about it? did we blog it? updated our website, wrote a press release for sure but blogs weren't invented then were they?
It's amazing to me how the momentum and cycle of knowledge, ideas locally etc has taken off and that it's kind of nearly everyone not just the industry people. But were does it go are we saying anything? is it making us more creative? are we having the same conversations we would have anyway? or are we just documenting our lives, thoughts, relationships?
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
A new blog
Sometimes I just want to rant on about this and that and it's stuff that doesn't relate specifically or at least I don't want to relate to my work. So here is a new blog that I may or may not write too much on - I'll see how it goes and let it emmerge or not as time goes on. Some probable areas of interest that might crop up: My observations around technology-ish, online networking type stuff, people and behaviours, people and the environement and life in general.
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