Thinking Digital – more minutes

Technology crops up in all sorts of places. 

Check out Justin Souter’s live blog of the conference – an interesting tool for meeting minutes.

Thinking Digital is multi-platform

The action at this week’s Thinking Digital conference at The Sage is an interesting combo of live, powerpoint and twitter.

I don’t think it’ll work in translation, but you can try… this link..

IT communities in Newcastle

I’ve just come across SuperMondays http://www.supermondays.org/  - while I am moonlighting on Twitter at the Thinking Digital conference.

Met some interesting folk at Teeside’s Institute for Digital Innovation… hope to see them soon visiting the yard.

Also here, Darren Jobling of Eutechnyx, Steve Waddington of Speed Communications, 

Alot of great speakers explaining and teaching things, rather than reflecting and drawing the philosophical benefits.

 

 

 

Geordieland – no digital backwater

They used to say that the high tide of economic prosperity reached Newcastle (aka Geordieland) last and went out first. However, has the Blair-Brown spending given the NorthEast a post-industrial future – or is the economy still very precarious?

Outliers… Malcolm Gladwell’s book… would have a field day if you looked at Newcastle 1830 to 1870… the invention of electricity from coal-fired power stations… the invention of the railways… the invention of the light bulb…

But, Newcastle is reinventing itself as a world city – an Ideopolis – with embedded university, airport to anywhere… still the joie de vivre of a port town with sunny weather (remember the Romans didn’t settle Manchester because it rained too much!)

Check out the biggest thing happening in Newcastle this year: Thinking Digital- a British-born TED conference, hosted by an inspired Korean-American, Herb Kim,  tasked with bringing cohesion and fighting spirit to the NorthEast’s digital business through his organisation Codeworks…

Check out the Thinking Digital film, too:

http://vimeo.com/2835418