Some must-see TV tonight (and every night this week) with the first of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, this year on the topic of a ‘Hi-tech Trek – the Quest for the Perfect Computer’. They’ll be presented by Prof Chris Bishop, Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft Research. The schedule of programmes is: Monday 29 December […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
Twitpanto – the Twitter pantomime
This afternoon I was Trig – one of the ugly sisters in Twitpanto, a production of Cinderella played out over Twitter. My co-stars were mainly Birmingham-based twitterers, along with a few of minor Twitter slebs. Jon Bounds, a social media consultant, was responsible for the idea, script, direction… pretty much everything in fact, and a […]
Birmingham Britglyph
Earlier this afternoon I took part in a national public art project called Britglyph. Markers have been laid out across a map of England and Scotland making the shape of a chronometer. People are asked to go to the place of one of those markers and lay a stone, thereby building “a geoglyph which spans […]