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Guy,

Information Online is next week.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ah78wfp3rm6x_115g4km35
Do you plan to be there?

I have started a Google doc to become a story for OhmyNews. I hope to find an email address to invite you to edit etc.

Anyone else interested please request.

Will

sorry to hear this Guy

hope recovery continues

best

Will

apologies for taking the eye off the ball, Will; have been v ill. Seem to be back up now

"how to lose 13 lb in ten days..."

Not recommended! Seems to have been two simultaneous virus infestations.

Can't find any news about the Amazon device.

It is more or less a mobile phone. They pay the comms bill and rejected wifi because of patchy cover. You can't phone back other than to order more stuff.

The display can't be off topic surely?

Edited by author 11-18-2007 09:34 AM
David Tebbutt contributes to the IWR blog that will soon turn attention to the Online Info show

http://blog.iwr.co.uk/

Meanwhile another show has just closed

http://www.infotodayblog.com/

It the claims about online information are valid, something can continue meanwhile. As well as something in specific space early December.

I can't believe there can be two! Tebbo has several blogs, of various sorts; does a lot of "meeja training" for execs, and is a past Editor of PCW.

Edited by author 11-02-2007 03:12 PM

Tebbo...

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I first met Tebbo when he and Bruce Sawford approached me to write the news section of PCW. I needed the money: I'd just been given the sack by the new editor of New Scientist!
 

Is this the same David Tebbutt who writes for Information World Review?

http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/220...-few-happy-few-band

He is starting up a coffee club for creatives. Found in Facebook as creativecoffee club, just two words. Could be a venue to start discussion now, just in cas there is something else urgent in December.

Guy thanks for this.

My take is that I should be careful when casting a spell.

For the story so far, refer to
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/219...y-did-invent-iphone

Yes, you have started in the wrong place.

Pervulsion was a word coined (not invented) as "magic technology" jargon by Jack Vance, SF writer, author of the "Dying Planet" series of books and stories.

In "The Eyes of the Overworld" he uses it to imply a sort of incantatory skill necessary to cast a spell correctly; and if you get the pervulsions misplaced, the outcome may be unsatisfactory.

In the case of Cugel the Clever, he finds himself seized in the claws of a demon, and carried thousands of miles across an impassable sea to a place where he tried to escape from earlier in the story. Very instructive!

http://michaelhalm.tripod.com/id162.htm

pervulsion: repulsive perversion


surely not


come on, give us a clue

suggested link to start from?

Forgot a link for keynote speaker Jimmy Wales

http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia

part of the paid for conference but the content will be widely known by Thursday.

Previously, David Weinberger

http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/

Guy,

The content bit is called Online Information

http://www.online-information.co.uk/index.html

The technology bit is at the back

http://www.ims-show.co.uk/

The conference people pay for

http://www.ims-show.co.uk/online07/conference.html

There are also free talks behind the IMS bit,
including a publishing panel on the Thursday, 6th Dec

That could be the best day to be there. Three years ago the panel was quite rude about bloggers in my opinion. Last year there was so much about blogging that even the free sessions clashed.

Hope the Mouse will consider attending. But Guy, to make sure you should schedule some time yourself.

By the way, do people from IT Week ever talk to people from Information World Review? They seem to come from the same premises but maybe this is an illusion nowadays.

The Mouse is about: I'll prod its lazy arse with my toe!

:-)

Got a URL for that conf?

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Guy,

I can't help asking what you think about blogging in general?

Recent writing in IT Week warned about the dangers from amateurs for proper journalism.

http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/219...ser-generated-sites

Maybe there is space for all kinds of levels of authority and polish. Do you regard a blog as provisional? Do you welcome comments? Have you revised an opinion that started in a blog and then became something in print?

Similar issues will come up at Online Information in December. I have mentioned this in the Hunky Mousehole but I fear the mouse is still on holiday. Keynote speaker from the Wikipedia, something is changing.