I'm really happy with this years logo for Mashed - I asked design to make up some badges for our sites - and they've done us proud - so if you want to let people know you've managed to get one of those elusive tickets (some available right now) - then feel free to copy and paste the code below for the design you like.
Due to these templates not working properly I've had to post them on my own blog - copy and paste to your hearts delight from
Backstage is supporting the Thinking Digital conference in Gateshead/Newcastle. Its a new conference along the lines of TED/Pop!Tech but based in the North of England and not exclusive to the in crowd.The conference has great wireless and so we're able to upload videos straight from the conference only a few moments after the speaker was on stage.
Day one
Session 1: The Future of Media
-- Matt Locke
-- Eric Lindstrom & Steve Jelley
-- Jeremy Silver
Session 2: United We Stand
-- Darren Thwaites
-- Ian Kennedy
-- Tara Hunt
An Entrepreneur's Story
-- Sean Phelan
Thinking Digital Tech Demo
-- Steve Clayton
-- Q&A
Session 3: Happiness
-- Helen Fisher
-- Caspar Berry
-- Jonathan Harris
Session 4: The Singularity
-- Ian Neild
-- Ray Kurzweil (via Teleportec)
Day two
Session 5: Mobile 2.0 panel debate
-- Gerard Grech
-- Vikesh Patel
-- Mark Selby
-- Bradley de Souza
Greg Dyke interviewed by Andy Allan
Session 6: Unconventional Wisdom
-- Aubrey de Grey
-- Carl Honore
-- Dan Lyons (a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs)
Session 7: Globalisation - Opportunity or Threat?
-- Jessica Flannery
-- Claire Nouvian
Session 8: Management & Leadership
-- Richard St John
-- Dan Pink
-- Doug Richard
Conference close - reflections
Mashed - it's Hack Day time again and this year we've got a corker of a weekend planned.
Arrive on the Saturday (21st June) morning and listen to real people from the development world showing you how to build things and how to use the systems that will be available to you through-out the weekend - including a full broadcast TV station with the ability to build and hack your own interactive applications.
As the talks draw to a close the 24 hour hack begins - there's plenty of food (no it's not all pizza this year - think pie and mash) - distractions for when you need them and if all goes to plan a special event at midnight.
Sunday (22nd June) plods on to the live presentations at 2pm - hosted by a very very special guest star... if you thought last year was a great time - this year we'll blow your socks off.
It's all about you, if you want something let us know and we'll organise it.
The first 100 tickets have gone live - you can sign up at - https://mashed08.eventbrite.com/ - I'd be quick though - last year the first 100 tickets went in a little over two hours... we'll be releasing more tickets next week via the partners, but get in early if you want to guarantee your spot!
BBC Programmes RDF over XMPP pubsub at XTech 2008 from Patrick Sinclair on Vimeo.
The guys at the BBC Radio Labs have been up late again. This time while at Xtech, they have transformed the BBC Radio's programme schedule into RDF and many other types of data. Of course this is all RESTful using a API but they have taken it one step further and decided to play with XMPP (jabber) so they can create notifications of things your interested in complete with data from DBpedia.
BBC Worldservice won Sony's first Multiplatform award just recently. The project was the Bangladesh Boat Trip which involved a team of people from across the new media space. Ben Sutherland along with many others internally and backstage's own Premasagar & Annesley of Dharmafly created a complete experience across different platforms
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|13:18 UK time, Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Backstage is in Dublin this week for the Xtech 2008 conference. As usual I'll be filming as much as possible from the conference including talks and interviews from people. Just keep an eye on https://cubicgarden.blip.tv for videos everyday.
David Johnson the man behind the BBC iplayer Xbox media centre script was invited into the BBC to give a talk about his work by BBC Backstage recently. There are a few snaps of David Johnson showing the experience on Flickr. The internal session was well received and lots of questions were answered by David, myself (Ian Forrester) and (Anthony Rose). There was also lots of talk about the ipod Touch, Wii and Playstation3 offering too.
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