As you can probably tell from these extensive notes, I had fantastically interesting day on Saturday, learning about new projects, thinking in new ways, and making new friends, and spending all of Sunday thinking about them and writing about them. As Matt Ward said in his summation of PaperCamp, it was a fantastic convergence of the digital world ( Read more... )

There were a couple more sessions before lunch. First was Cheathco's Pirates and Scalpels: travel guides/one shot books/newspapers. As Chris confessed right at the start, he has "something of an obsession" with guide books (delineated in more detail in this post), although he is not particularly precious about them as objects. Quite the opposite; ( Read more... )

After Aaron's talk, Tom Taylor gave a little spiel about his microprinter, a standard till printer hooked up to the internet to print whatever you command it to, which in Tom's case are things like his daily calendar, weather reports, and @towerbridge opening times to help him plan his cycling route. Nifty! The notes for his talk came off the ( Read more... )

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So, there was this idea that Matt had, and I read about it and thought, oh, that's cool, I definitely want to go to that, and then forgot because I missed any more mentions of it. On Friday evening someone mentioned it on Twitter, and I remembered that I wanted to go. So, I wandered around the web in search of some information and came across the ( Read more... )