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A copy of the Observer from 1989, predicting what London may look like in 2010. Is it retro to imagine the future would be like the 1980s? - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"I agree and felt the same way about it - if it was anyone else, I might have understood the shock of seeing public back channel for the first time - but danah is the face of social networking research and could have been on top of it. Speaking with the understanding that there is a back-channel (regardless if you can see it or not) should mentally prepare a person for any accessible criticism (and should stop any waffling/reading from slides/general bad presentation skills) Instead of looking for a way to control bad comments, train/learn people to understand that this is the future of public speaking, and getting involved is surely better than pretending that it doesn't exist/pushing measure to make it go away. Of course, this is from observations and I believe that I would struggle to speak well at this level, this early into my career - but I think it is worth keeping in mind as a personal check point for what would be considered a "good" or a "bad" talk - from the frame of..." - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

Agree? - AJCann

Yes, I think I will check periodically but it is difficult to interact with it when it doesn't work on my phone (ironic?) - or at least something that nudges me when threads have been updated. Will need a massive pull to get it in my focus. Can see potential but not convinced by hype. - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

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"Don't be daft, your comments are as valuable as any other. In fact, your observations are incredibly valuable in a world that seems to be moving on a seemingly break speed, leaving many behind - if this is even consider the best foot forward. The downside of over-examining is that will never feel truely included in conventional sense, not good at shouting louder to get opinion and agenda across, if I was, I wouldn't be doing what I am doing. Agree about getting to meet people f2f in existing community, more chance of working than most. I think that should be celebrated more than the tech. Much of this conversation, in fact, is probably better fleshed out in meat space, minus amplification at the beginning - funny that? Gone full circle!" - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"Just throwing thoughts out - not sure of the answers, trying to add to the discussion rather than squash it." - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"I think.. as an afterthought, perhaps worth thinking about the fact that unevents tend to be organised through twitter - which implies a certain of tech savviness of the attendee. I don't mind, like you, helping people online in return for coffee and tea - there is a degree of digital divide having 'hyperlocal' events which are populated by 'non-locals' who've found out about events on twitter. Nothing wrong with either context, it just should be billed as such - not something it isn't - inclusive, probably no winning formula so need not pretend. Was actually good to get the twittering types in a room without the web, shit - talk to each other without social enablers to hide behind. Need sustance before amplification surely?" - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"I agree with you - to an extent, as you are, like me, attuned to what is going on within the broader context (on the ball with the range of events across the UK and the information which is being passed around) Would ubiquitous broadband solve a vast array social problems, I doubt it, but it would cause a great deal of positive change around those who know about it, those who want to know about it and those who don't know they want to know about it yet. My issue with unevents (as opposed to just events) is first and foremost the lack of critical discussion - perhaps I'm in the wrong place, and have been accused of being too "academic" for particular group models (such as tuttle, ampleic amongst others) which is fine, because I am interested in giving such emerging technologies the critique they deserve in order to be taken seriously in a wider context (I don't disagree with people on purpose, I just don't see the merit in encouraging echo chambers) - however, by not feeling including..." - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

free e-book copy of Owning the Olympics - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

A new set of predictions for the apparent "social web" - referencing O'Reilly amongst others. - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"How is it for video? (I'm going to get a new point and click soon, but want HD video on it - better than a flip cam apparently!)" - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

Video from Olympic Congress October 3rd 2009 - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

Twitter Feed from IOC congress 2009 (Copenhagen) - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"Thanks Jo! :-) Trying to reign in my online activity to make it worthwhile and inclusive to research (especially now it is full time, need to make the distinction!)" - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

The LA84 Foundation, with the permission of the International Olympic Committee, has web-published the official reports of all Olympic Games and Olympic Winter Games held from 1896. View the full text of several Official Olympic Reports. - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

The LA84 Foundation, with the permission of the International Olympic Committee, has web-published the official reports of all Olympic Games and Olympic Winter Games held from 1896. View the full text of several Official Olympic Reports. - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

Watched this. Noted that at around 34:30, the video skips back to the start and repeats itself.... - Graham Steel

it’s ¾GB, not 3–4GB — 736M Oct 14 20:30 cameronneylon.m4v - Mo

"I'll be there - looking forward to hearing about what Cameron is up to in person." - Jo Badge

http://friendfeed.com/uolneyl... - AJCann

"I went into it. But there was no corn to harvest - and I couldn't get hair shade just right. I'm fickle. I'm trying to see what it does that can't be done using something else, need to have an experiment when you are free." - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"I went into it. But there was no corn to harvest - and I couldn't get hair shade just right. I'm fickle. I'm trying to see what it does that can't be done using something else, need to have an experiment when you are free." - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"I think I was about to grind to a halt with the current PhD - this situation works out for everyone (and I'm already planning projects with others, and it is only in the first week, rather sitting around on my own like I did most the time in Leicester, more to do with blending of research interests, rather than feeling like I'm dragging people into places they don't like.) Hopefully we'll get the chance to catch up at another BSMC (or something else in the area) :-)" - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"Thanks love - trying to switch my mindset from looking for stuff to do that relevant - to actually making the time to think. It's all very exciting and I'm glad I get to spend time in Scotland again! :-) x" - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"Thanks! Been bursting to tell everyone but I've had to be careful with how much I shared etc - especially when I didn't know if it would be this semester, or next. It's been a tentative 2 months (probably aiding my frustration at the rest of the research/social media world!) The knot in my stomach has gone so that's got to be a good thing!" - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"LOL - I know. I am crap at keeping things quiet when I'm offline - it's been really frustrating not being able to talk about it (or my work at that!), but now all loose ends are tied with Leicester, I can actually start getting going with stuff. Seems like madness this morning, but when we've got spare moment we can start to plot ways in order to take over the world. 5 year plan innit. ;-)" - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"I have no problem with Second Life. I have a problem reading about how much money is spent (wasted) on something that can only be introduced to PHD STUDENTS through the medium of physical supervision (i.e. someone needs to watch them on the computers while they use it incase they violate ITS rules and regulations) I think you should do a study of second life researchers in education. Stats on how many of them use it beyond the work place, how many teach (successfully) using it - and some interviews measuring the discourse of defense when talking about their magical wurld." - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

A forum for contributors and readers of the forthcoming book "The Mobile Audience" by Martin Rieser. It covers a history of wirefree art from gallery to public spaces. Mobile works based on locative technologies, wearables, wifi and 3G are examined from the viewpoint of audience. - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"Yes, I think I will. Thanks for your comment!" - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"Hi Maxine - thanks for your comment. Correct, it is easy to criticise (especially online) but when you are at an event, tweeting under your own name, it should be just as easy to challenge - in the break, on the twitter fall (low barrier to entry and all that) - I doubt I can impress you, as I'm not in your field nor have the experience to challenge in that way(although was very interested in your panel about scientific dissemination - which I did write about briefly in the live blog) - this is something that I don't know much about, but from communicating with several science academics and librarians (and following Ben Goldacre's work) I have a developed an interest in the debate. I'm not qualified enough to really have much to say on that. Will keep following however, in particular anything about open access. Having put on my own social media topic seminar(http://usesandabuses.wordpress.com http://usesandabuses.pbworks.com) - I completely understand how hard and challenging it is to..." - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"Yeah exactly. If we talked about going to the pub with similar grandeur, we'd all be laughed at. It *can* be incredibly superficial (as a topic) when there isn't any substance to it. It's not hard to add some, just need to case study a tiny little bit of it and then we could actually compare it to other things. Having a bunch of "experts" sitting around on panels, all of which pretty much agreeing with each other, does not maketh a conference. I assume that most people there weren't present for a social media circle jerk (pardon my expression, but I can't think of anything else to describe Friday) People went to learn something new about the subject that has been dominating mass media for the last year or so. I doubt many got much from it - and I betcha that any one of the panel would have been far more interesting if they were asked to present something a little most substantial about their interests or backgrounds. There were too many people asking "how do we make money?" - well,..." - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"Yeah completely agree. I'm disheartened that I'm only 10 months into this and I've managed to become this cynical. I was expecting at least a year before I started wanting to scream during a conference! ;-)" - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"Thanks for your kind words. It's hard to be open about things like this when you have the Guardian saying the complete opposite (were we at the same event?) - I think you may like this post about the hashtag (http://bit.ly/325lsU) , and Brian Kelly's interesting observations about the lack of social activities pre and post event. Heard a lot of good things about Kara Swisher's discussion (I'm assuming because she didn't get wishy washy or fluffy with the details) - I wish I'd have seen it, but you'd have never got me in a session on corporate blogging from the first impressions (been there, done that - biggest problem, I feel, is trying to get your colleagues on board, and that's enough to put a plug in it) But then again, I didn't learn anything new from the sessions I did choose to go to, so I'd have probably been better off sticking a pin in the programme and picking something random! I'm glad I went - gives me an idea what to do differently. And it won't take much to try something..." - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

"Thanks for your kind words. It's hard to be open about things like this when you have the Guardian saying the complete opposite (were we at the same event?) - I think you may like this post about the hashtag (http://bit.ly/325lsU) , and Brian Kelly's interesting observations about the lack of social activities pre and post event. Heard a lot of good things about Kara Swisher's... more... - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

All over the place because I decided to go and get coffee instead of be on time for the keynote. Packed lecture theatre. First panel: From Weblogs to Twitter: blah de blah de blah. First thing speaker does is in the morning look at technorati - retro. - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones

Laptop died - resorted to tweeting comments. Will add to this in the morning and blog about it in further depth. - Jennifer Mackenzie Jones