On Wednesday evening, I went to the Prince Charles to a free screening of Us Now, courtesy of the lovely NESTA Connect people. It was pretty interesting; a snapshot of the last few years and the rise of media being used towards positive social change. There were some interesting case studies, such as Slice The Pie, a site where bands can go ( Read more... )

This session was, for me, the least successful or useful. I think partly it was the timing; it was, perhaps, too serious a subject for the time of day. I’m not saying we shouldn’t discuss serious subjects in the evening, but coming after the fun of playing silly games, a quite amusing overview of the first two sessions and a period of mingling over ( Read more... )

This particular session, run by Johnnie Moore, was surprisingly the most useful one for me. I went in not knowing what to really expect from the title, except that “more play” sounded fun. Although I knew there were bound to be games at first, I still had an awful sinking feeling for a moment that they would be those cheesy roleplay-based ones ( Read more... )

I found the emphasis behind the session for Future of the Book really fascinating, especially as it’s one that’s inciting so many contentious discussions at the moment. There was a minor kerfuffle about it on Twitter a month or so ago, prompted in part by something Tom Coates said, which was really interesting but awkward to follow, and it’s a ( Read more... )

I struggled a bit to find the focus to write about last Thursday’s Amp08 event at NESTA. Ironically, that’s perhaps the most appropriate thing I could find to say about it, as the event seemed to lack a little focus itself.

A lack of focus was to be expected, though, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was being run along the unconference ( Read more... )