I am very excited and honoured to have been invited to DLD in January this year!

DLD is Europe’s conference for the 21st century, covering digital innovation, science and culture and bringing together thought leaders from Europe, the Middle-East, America and Asia. The three-day event is chaired by publisher Hubert Burda and investor Joseph Vardi and hosted by Stephanie Czerny and Marcel Reichart.

Confirmed speakers include:

• René Obermann, Deutsche Telekom
• Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
• Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia & Wikia
• Paulo Coelho, novelist (“The Alchemist”, “Eleven Minutes”)
• Craig Venter, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
• John Brockman, edge.org

I look forward to seeing some familar faces from Stream!

I think today deserves a quote…

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Mark Twain

Here’s a little doodling inspired by Keith Peters as published in Flash Math Creativity

Click image image to view a larger version.

Designers - Check out the symbol at the bottom of each mesh.

onClipEvent (load) {
_root.shape._visible = 0;
xspeed = 1.5;
yspeed = 0.5xradius = 200//Stage.width/2//30;
yradius = 200//Stage.height/2//100;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
i += 3;
duplicateMovieClip(_root.shape, "shape"+i, i);
xangle += xspeed;
yangle += yspeed;
xrad = xangle*Math.PI/360;
yrad = yangle*Math.PI/360;
_root["shape"+i]._x = Math.sin(xrad)*xradius+Stage.width/2;
_root["shape"+i]._y = Math.cos(yrad)*yradius+Stage.height/2;
_root["shape"+i]._rotation = rot++;
_root["shape"+i]._xscale = Math.sin(xrad)*100;
_root["shape"+i]._yscale = Math.sin(yrad)*400;
}

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I finally found this video. First shown to me at Stream 2007 during the Where is Rosie discussion group hosted by Limor Schweitzer and Shai Abramson.

Whilst I can admire the technology behind it, there is something really unsettling about the way moves.

http://bliin.com/

” bliin is a free internet service for live location-based blogging & monitoring. It’s an open platform – for desktop and pocket internet - where logged-on users can track, trace and interact with other logged-on users and share personal location pictures, video’s, sounds & text in real-time, using a Google Map. So … you’re not just uploading images to a site, you’re sharing your actual location and experiences live, for other people to see and monitor through time.”

A simple game and simple motion detection and look at the audience reaction. Proof positive that folks would rather not be passive observers!

Well the first bit anyway. Now for the rest.

I thoroughly recommend the Web-Developer Suite . I have to juggle .net and php apps and their tools are simple to use and utterly invaluable.

Got my linux host. Got my database linked in and hurrah wordpress is now installed and working. (Thanks for your help fasthosts)

Now to start the business of re-skinning this site. I have the kimili plugin for flash, but what I really want to do is completely customise the theme and incorporate a flash banner in the header.

Another brilliant thought-provoking talk from Richard Dawkins. Watch it!