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The BCS’s Internet Specialist Group are looking for people to contribute. I like the BCS and I think they do good work, but there aren’t too many people from the web community there.
It seems like the kinds of people who go to SXSW and FOWA are not the same people who are BCS members. This […]

Wow. I’m beat.
Hackday was fantastic. Other people I’m sure are going to comment on the hacks and the band and other things. The range and breadth of the people who came, was fabulous. They provided a wash of skills ideas and talent. I think while Yahoo and the BBC organised it, it was the people […]

So there was a geek dinner tonight with Jyri from Jaiku. I have to say it was a very different crowd from normal, if there is such a thing for geek dinners. Maybe it’s just regulars plus transients interested in the speaker.
Anyway Jyri is a great speaker, very smart and funny. His thoughts on Web […]

Shawn is in town for @media. She

Neil and I went to Dorkbot last night. I love Dorkbot but I haven’t been to one in about 8 months. We arrived at a smarter venue than the previous ones I’ve been to. They were having it in an art space near in the East End. We got collared by some from the art […]

Big Daddy Stu has posted the podcasts for the last WSG London meeting. Christian has also posted his slides
Stu has more details WSG London on his mini-site.

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Big Stu is organising another Web Standards Group meeting in London. This time it’s a Javascript Meetup. Speakers include Chris Heilmann and Steve Faulkner. It’s going to be a good ‘en.

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Following on from yesterday’s interview I’d like to highlight something. The former comedian, and now just generally pissed off, Mark Thomas is organising a day of demos a week on Saturday about the need to apply for a permit to demonstrate within a mile of parliament with permission from the Police. Not having a permit […]

Tom Morris did a great presentation on how to use eRDF to markup Semantic Web in a Microformats kinda way. I’m going to see if I can steal his code example and add it to this post later.
Update! Tom has added his slides on Semantic Web:
A Quick But Detailed Introduction. I love the eRDF examples. […]

I signed up for BarCampLondon2 yesterday. Yet when I checked my mail this morning I had an email from Bethen. Bethen seems to work for a company called Octane PR who, unsurprisingly, represent BT. Bethen reminded me that the details of the event had been updated and maybe I wanted to check the page.
This maybe […]

Title sez it all, register at the BarCampLondon2 twiki page.

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Great evening at Pub Standards this evening. If you live in or around London it’s well worth a look in. In case there is any confusion; No one talks about the standard of Pubs (especially our usual, The Bricklayer’s Arms) people may, however, talk about Web Standards.
With such a great crowd of people again, I […]

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Went to the Mashup* on advertising 2.0 last night. It was pretty interesting, although nothing ground breaking. Dave Burrows, Yahoo’s head of Ad technology in Europe, gave a good talk on where we are and were we should be looking. It leaves me feeling better about advertising at work, because I actually trust Dave.
The main […]

Welcome to British Computing Society central, Southampton Street, right off the strand. Posh. Chris Moxon, the current chair of the YPG is presenting.
He did a quick introduction to the people in the room. Mainly either BCS people (working for or on the ‘council’) or people working in financial sector or consulting roles. Chris talked a […]

Paul Boag of Boag World fame is speaking tonight at the ‘lesser’* Geek Dinners in London. This is in a quite trendy area, just on the fringes of China town. The pub seems pretty decent, although the nibbles weren’t great for a Vegan geek like myself.
So the format seemed to be a little drinking, a […]

So this is my second ‘geek’ this week. Which, I am actually pretty buzzed about. Dorkbot was a hoot but this is a little more serious, examining actually issues.
I arrived a little late and Cory was talking. As usual he was both witty and poignant. You can’t stop being copying bits. You should embrace […]