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Latest (Thursday July 7th, 2005):2005's "NotCon" now has the new name of Open Tech 2005 (and takes place in Hammersmith on Saturday 23rd July 2005) - please click the link for further details.
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Creating Collaborative City Guides with OpenGuides - Earle Martin New hardware/software developments on the Sinclair Spectrum - Matt Westcott Politics of the net - Bill Thompson Politics of Groups vs Politics of Society (Word doc) - Will Davies Mashups discussion - Will Head, Lionel Vinyl, Soundhog, Wendy Seltzer Shit I'm A Manager - Tom Dolan How To Run a Weblog on Behalf of Your MP - Tim Ireland Online Politics 2001-2004 (page linking to Powerpoint ppt) - Tom Steinberg Gmail, Search & Content Discovery - Peter Jones Online coverage:
Wired News: general overview + prawn sandwich, camera phone remote control CYBAEA: general SubEthaEdit notes: life hacks, Brewster Kahle, politics on the net, geolocation, hardware, MP3, social(-ish) software, blogging, some P2P Cory Doctorow/ BoingBoing: life hacks notes IRC chat logs Tom Stuart/ Obsess.com: general, photos Timo Arnall/ elasticspace.com: some hardware, photos Tom Gilbert/ Linuxbrit.co.uk: photos Steve C: photos Exmosis: photos, brief video Reverend Rat: photos Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: prawn sandwich radio interview James Bloomer/ Big Dumb Object: life hacks, Brewster Kahle, copyright pt 2, politics of the net, Ian Clarke, politics on the net, Hitchhiker's Guide Ewan Spence: general/ a few more links John Linford: general Tom Coates/ Plasticbag.org: general, hardware, geolocation Chris Lightfoot: Brewster Kahle Ian Forrester/ cubicgarden.com: general (lots on P2P), photos? Lee Bryant/ headshift.com: blogging, politics on the net Tom Armitage/ infovore.org: general Techquila Shots: life hacks Daniel Barlow: politics, prawns, life hacks Matt Freestone/ furthermore.org.uk: politics Chris Applegate: general Flashboy: general Owen Massey/ Tech Lech: geolocation, hardware, Brewster Kahle Suw Charman/ Chocnvodka: life hacks, politics, copyright David Brake/ blog.org: general, Brewster Kahle, blogging, photos Topic Exchange: (whatever that is) Chris Raettig: get well soon What: NotCon '04 - an informal, low-cost, one-day conference on things that technologies were perhaps not intended to do.
When: 11am-7pm, Sunday June 6th, 2004.
Where: Imperial College Union (click for venue directions), Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington SW7 2BB (nearest tubes Gloucester Road and South Kensington - NB: Piccadilly line only at weekend, no service on Circle line, no District line between Whitechapel and Earls Court).
Cost: £4.00 on the door, £3.00 concessions (ie students, under 18s, journalists, OAPs, the unemployed, any webloggers not covered by one or more of the previous categories).
Full speaker schedule:
Please note that places will be limited by the size of the venue; tickets will be on sale from 10.50am and doors open at 11am, so basically turn up early. Some food (vending machines etc) will be available at the venue but you are advised to visit local retailers and hostelries for more substantial fare. The bar is not open to under-18s, and the event as a whole is not intended for very young children.
Final lineup may be subject to alteration due to circumstances beyond our control.
Ground Floor: Second Floor: 11.30am-12.30pm: 11.40am-12.30pm: Intro and Life Hacks Geolocation 10 min introduction to the event followed by...
Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks
- Dan O'Brien
Chair: Chris Lightfoot
Urban Tapestries: Building a Space-based App Without Thinking About Technology
- Nick West
Creating stress/excitement maps of London
- Christian Nold
Creating Collaborative City Guides with OpenGuides
- Earle Martin
Dealing With The Top 10 Worst Situations In Urban Exploration
- ProjectZ
12.30pm-1.30pm: 12.30pm-1.30pm: Hardware Politics OF the net Chair: Matt Jones
Telling the time (not very accurately) using a Marks & Spencer prawn sandwich and a BBC micro
- James Larsson
New hardware/software developments on the Sinclair Spectrum
- Matt Westcott
Why Interactive telly isn't the Web, why it never will be, and why that's good
- George Wright
How to Email Your Video (and other things to make your home come alive - literally)
- Steven Goodwin
Camera-Phones: the only remote control you'll ever need
- Anil Madhavapeddy
Extended Range Bluejacking
- The Reverend Rat
Chair: Tom Steinberg
The Consensus view
- Cory Doctorow
The Neo-con Net
- Bill Thompson
Sociological perspectives
- Will Davies (link to Word doc)
1.30pm-2pm: 1.30pm-2pm: Break Wireless interlude [Possible seating re-arrangement - bar now open just across the hall from Ground Floor venue]
Bristol Wireless - a quick overview
- Peter Ferne
Network commons - legal aspects of open public networks
- .nbco, Bruce M Simpson & .vortex
2pm-2.50pm: 2pm-2.50pm: Copyright pt 1 Mashups and MP3s
Universal access to human knowledge
- Brewster Kahle
Chair: Will Head (click for session transcript)
Panel discussion:
- Lionel Vinyl
- Soundhog
- Wendy Seltzer, Chilling Effects
Why we built Audioscrobbler
- Richard Jones
3pm-4pm: 3pm-4pm: Copyright pt 2 Social software Chair: Dan O'Brien
Goodbye (Project) Gutenberg? What's the new world of IP doing to plaintext?
Panel discussion:
- Brewster Kahle, The Internet Archive
- Rob Hamadi, The Publishers Association
- David Tannenbaum, Union for the Public Domain
- James Wallis, niche publisher and author
- Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Chair: Wendy Grossman
Flox: An Open Source Social Network
- Simon Cozens
Editing text for live gabba techno performance
- Alex McLean
The Kendra Initiative
- Daniel Harris
Open Webcasting and Collaborative Scheduling
- Gavin Starks
4pm-4.30pm: 4pm-4.30pm: Break Business break [Last chance to enter "My Worst Blog Post" competition - either post your entries to the wiki or print them out and bring them on the day...]
Chair: Steve Bowbrick
Shit I'm A Manager
- Tom Dolan
Mediocrities of Scale
- Pete Windle
4.30pm-5.20pm: 4.30pm-5.20pm: Blogging with a point Peer-to-peer pt 1 Chair: Dave Green A controlled study on the impacts of blogging within a defined geographical location
- Richard Holmes, BBC Scotland Interactive
MPs and Weblogs
- Tim Ireland
Chair: Christopher Soghoian
Free as in "Freenet"
- Ian Clarke
5.30pm-6.20pm: 5.30pm-6.20pm: Politics ON the net Peer-to-peer review Chair: Tom Steinberg Unveiling of TheyWorkForYou, a new project from the people behind FaxYourMP and PublicWhip
Government ways of consulting with the public over the net
- Richard Sargeant
Chair: Paula Le Dieu
Anonymous P2P services
- Christopher Soghoian
P2PQ: From Local Knowledge to Selling $tuff
- Akin O. Fernandez
A Darker BitTorrent
- Ash Argent-Katwala
Gmail, Search and Content Discovery
- Peter Jones
6.30pm-6.45pm: Any other business/ closing remarks
What's Actually Happening with the Hitch-Hiker's Guide Movie (new pics and "a fistful of new factoids not currently on the web anywhere")
- Yoz Grahame
Announcement of winners for "My Worst Blog Post" competition
< event info > < audio/video > < contact > < wiki > < venue > < press >
Latest (Thursday July 7th, 2005):2005's "NotCon" now has the new name of Open Tech 2005 (and takes place in Hammersmith on Saturday 23rd July 2005) - please click the link for further details.