Author: imran
BarCamp Leeds {2007}
It’s ON! After month’s of speculation, logo contests, false starts and calendar battleship across Upcoming and the official wiki – BarCamp Leeds is set for Saturday 17th November! With only 24 days before the event we decided to go for a single day BarCamp this time around…if things go well, we’re planning a full weekend…
Best Two Minutes Of TV This Week…
Wow, just when it looked like BSG’s Razor minisodes were gonna be as dull as last year’s Resistance ‘webisodes’, we get a cracking dogfight… Best part? The chilling radio-borne screams of the Columbia‘s dying crew… { The soundtrack for season three was released today – Violence & Variations is my standout piece }
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
Ian Hay and I have been invited by O’Reilly’s Brady Forrest to run a session on mobile trends at Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin next month. Strangely, neither one of us can remember writing this abstract… — From a Mobile Telephone to a Computer – a Reality Dysfunction The mobile phone is becoming more advanced,…
About Me…
{ this is a test page ONLY! } Like a neurotic superhero, I have many identities… One of the founding partners of Carbon Imagineering, the emerging technologies think tank and product hothouse behind Fingertip, mee:view, Believr and Personomii…we’re building the next generation of consumer internet applications… (Formerly, Deputy Director of Technology Research at Orange UK…
Northern Snippets…
This week saw a bumper crop of tech events across the North… The MELD launch parties in Leeds and Manchester kick started this intersection of social media and journalism. I went along to the Leeds event and bumped into the former CEO of Leeds Media, Terry Morden and Simon Robertshaw, formerly part of Liverpool’s ICDC…
I’m Jaman’
Last Sunday I had the pleasure of a visit at home from Jaman‘s European VP, Faisal Galaria along with his lovely Mum 🙂 Faisal was over from SF, visiting his family for Eid-ul-Fitr, so we figured it was a great chance to finally meet. Faisal grew up just a few miles from me, we’re from…
Steroid Maximus: Ectopia
Steroid Maximus‘ Ectopia is a soundtrack for a movie that doesn’t exist; maybe a kick-ass Tarantino-directed reimagining of The Man from UNCLE with its sounds planted firmly in the 60s, or a 21st century In Like Flint. Steroid Maximus is actually J.G.Thirlwell, the composer of one of my favourite TV series, The Venture Brothers – …
Oooh Look! Pretty Computer!
Nicolas Negroponte‘s One Laptop Per Child project draws as much criticism as it does admiration. Much of it is valid, such as Lee Felsenstein‘s studied critiques of OLPC’s pedagogical philosophy; but sniping at the $120 hundred dollar laptop and its lo-fi technology based is missing the point. OLPC is an educational initiative not a laptop…
OpenCoffee {Cinque}
OK, OK, I’ve been real lazy (hey, it’s Ramadan and I’ve been busy repenting) and haven’t gotten around to blogging last week’s fifth edition of OpenCoffee Leeds {Cinque}; y’know the Italian-coffee themed numbers sounded really hip four months ago, but as someone pointed out, it’s maybe smarter to go with months. So from December, I’ll…
I’m MELDing!
God bless Katz Kiely 🙂 As well as spinning up planning on the 2008 edition of b.TWEEN, Katz’ Just-B Productions are also behind the upcoming MELD, a forthcoming event bringing together the North’s foremost interaction designers and journalists for a week of ideation, blending the talents of old and new media. I’m not sure ‘interaction…