A european despatch
First, a disclaimer: The events in this despatch do in fact precede the events in the previous one. I know this is strange but I don't really care.
First, a disclaimer: The events in this despatch do in fact precede the events in the previous one. I know this is strange but I don't really care.
A discussion of why I've done what I've done, and the point I'm trying to make (and maybe even prove).
I was lucky enough to be at Reboot 10, back at the end of June. I gave a prototype talk working through some ideas I've been thinking about for a while (stuff that I started to work at with my Everything I know about Programming I learnt from Typography talk at the first BarCamp London). The talk was called Craft & Process, and was essentially a braindump and not a real talk - I had a bunch of sketchy notes for an overall structure and talked my way from the start of the notes tothe end...
A couple of months back, James and Jenny thought it would be a good idea to nick Russell & Ben's Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet for Greenbelt. There's loads of people there, and some of them write things while they're there, went the thinking. So far so good.
Having just about survived making the newspaper, enjoyed the last day of Greenbelt enormously, and spent the last couple of days recovering, I'm sat in the Brighton Dome waiting for the dConstruct fun to start, I thought it would be good to reflect on the newspaper experience. [Actually, it took me another week to get around to finishing this, but most of it was written over the dConstruct weekend.]