Links from Futuresonic

All the pictures from all those at Futuresonic using the tag Futr09 on Flickr.

This years conference was really well organised and brought a great collection of speakers together. The ranging insight and expertise they brought to the conference felt relevant and the mix of practicing artists and ‘tech-industry’ representatives generated some interesting debates on the platform.

It’s the last place you’d expect to hear John Lennon’s anti-religion anthem Imagine, but the tune rang out yesterday from the bells of an Anglican cathedral.

Stream from Tim Difford which inlcudes links providing more information to Adam Greenfield’s resentation about networked city environments.

Hearing their lucid presentations, it was hard not to wonder where Digital Britain took their advice, and how they could miss so much. And, then again it was possible to wonder if Digital Britain matters. The kids are already there. And the semantic web’s killer services will likely spring up from nowhere and go pandemic before…

Liveblogging in FriendFeed was a cynch. Having set up a dedicated FriendFeed Group for people to discuss the summit, I created a new discussion thread within that Group for each talk that I attended. The title of the thread was sent automatically to Twitter to help draw people into the discussion. I then spent the duration of each talk typing a short paragraph about each point that the speaker made. People following the liveblog saw these appear in realtime without the need to refresh their browser.

Coverage via FriendFeed made up a lot of the ongoing commentary and you can access this here thanks to Martin Bryant who worked tirelessly to create this throughout the summit.

Some very artistic shots by SamScam. Considering the festival essentially took place in a couple of fixed locations. Sam’s eye for the different has really paid off to produce such a stunnimg array of pictures.