Back from the Firefox party … Jeff Ubois on book scanning on Dave Winer’s RSS couch

December 1, 2006 By

Whew, what a day. I spent the whole day with Sam Sethi, who heads up TechCrunch UK. He showed me around the London software industry today and there’s a lot happening here.

Anyway, all that is for another day. I’m totally beat. Visited something like six pubs, walked and walked, visited two tech-heavy parties (ended up at the Firefox 2.0 launch party, where I gathered dozens of business cards that I’ll have to sort through after some sleep).

But, check out the interesting conversation I had with Jeff Ubois over on ScobleShow — the chat took place on Dave Winer’s new “RSS couch.” This is a much different kind of interview than I’ve had before — Maryam was just listening in and said it was one of my best. All about the impact of tech companies on libraries and book scanning and archiving of the world’s information. If you care about the storage and preservation of information, this is an 44-minute interview you’ll probably find valuable.

Jeff is a former co-chair of the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ Television Interest Group and is an expert about issues in digital file preservation and archiving.

Anyway, thanks to Hugh and Sam and everyone else who showed up (about 20 people met us at the statue).

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  • http://www.garyshort.org/ Gary Short

    You are right, there is a lot happening in London but, as prices are so high there, there are lots of great tech elsewhere in the UK as well. Here in Dundee there’s great games companies, not to mention some of the best bio-tech anywhere in the world. Next time you are in the UK, you should look us up, besides, us Scots know how to party. ;)

    Cheers,
    Gary
    http://www.garyshort.org/

  • http://www.garyshort.org Gary Short

    You are right, there is a lot happening in London but, as prices are so high there, there are lots of great tech elsewhere in the UK as well. Here in Dundee there’s great games companies, not to mention some of the best bio-tech anywhere in the world. Next time you are in the UK, you should look us up, besides, us Scots know how to party. ;)

    Cheers,
    Gary
    http://www.garyshort.org/

  • Jamie Nathan

    The Windows Live dude here….! Was great to meet you Robert. Hugh too. Especially enjoyed your points about the YouTube/Google acquisition. An overall surreal experience though; meeting up with a bunch of geeks id never met before and going for a few pints.

    Tried to make it to the Firefox party but got caught up in the office :-/

  • Jamie Nathan

    The Windows Live dude here….! Was great to meet you Robert. Hugh too. Especially enjoyed your points about the YouTube/Google acquisition. An overall surreal experience though; meeting up with a bunch of geeks id never met before and going for a few pints.

    Tried to make it to the Firefox party but got caught up in the office :-/

  • Phil

    Aawwww it can’t have been that great’a “Pished as newts” tour if your able to post when you get back!

    Come on Robert… 6 pubs.. Is that all?

  • Phil

    Aawwww it can’t have been that great’a “Pished as newts” tour if your able to post when you get back!

    Come on Robert… 6 pubs.. Is that all?

  • http://www.darrenstraight.com/blog Darren Straight

    Haha what can I say, it was great fun, I’ll have to upload some pics on flickr tomorrow! :)

    @Jamie: Where you the MSFT Employee ;)

  • http://www.darrenstraight.com/blog Darren Straight

    Haha what can I say, it was great fun, I’ll have to upload some pics on flickr tomorrow! :)

    @Jamie: Where you the MSFT Employee ;)

  • Jamie Nathan

    Yup, that was me. Which one were you?

  • Jamie Nathan

    Yup, that was me. Which one were you?

  • http://www.quintura.com/ Yakov

    What’s a tour around the City! Keep it up!

  • http://www.quintura.com Yakov

    What’s a tour around the City! Keep it up!

  • http://www.gapingvoid.com/ hugh macleod

    Hey Robert,

    I made it home safely [but only just]…. thanks for a great day out.

    See you next time!

  • http://www.gapingvoid.com hugh macleod

    Hey Robert,

    I made it home safely [but only just]…. thanks for a great day out.

    See you next time!

  • http://www.nigelcooke.com/ monkeyleader

    Great day – will need to get the photos up on Flickr. Tagged of course as Pissedasnewts06 :)

    Nige

  • http://www.nigelcooke.com monkeyleader

    Great day – will need to get the photos up on Flickr. Tagged of course as Pissedasnewts06 :)

    Nige

  • http://www.darrenstraight.com/blog Darren Straight

    @Jamie: I don’t think we got around to having a proper conversation, but I was the guy with the Windows Live Jacket on and Microsoft Student Bag! :)

  • http://www.darrenstraight.com/blog Darren Straight

    @Jamie: I don’t think we got around to having a proper conversation, but I was the guy with the Windows Live Jacket on and Microsoft Student Bag! :)

  • http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/ Mark McGuinness

    Great to meet you all – bracing myself for the flickr photos… :-)

  • http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/ Mark McGuinness

    Great to meet you all – bracing myself for the flickr photos… :-)

  • http://rdauster.wordpress.com/ rdauster

    Great day indeed. Thank you Robert, Hugh, Sam and all the crawlers. Revolutions have been started by less men (and taken less time!). So… when is the next Scoblecrawl?

  • http://rdauster.wordpress.com/ rdauster

    Great day indeed. Thank you Robert, Hugh, Sam and all the crawlers. Revolutions have been started by less men (and taken less time!). So… when is the next Scoblecrawl?

  • http://blog.snipperoo.com/ Ivan Pope

    Uuurgh, aaagh. Just resurfacing after topping off the crawl with the Internet People and Firefox parties. Good fun, video coming later.

  • http://blog.snipperoo.com Ivan Pope

    Uuurgh, aaagh. Just resurfacing after topping off the crawl with the Internet People and Firefox parties. Good fun, video coming later.

  • http://www.greatapps.blogspot.com/ John Wilson

    A truly excellent way to spend a Friday afternoon – Drinking with a large group, most of whom you’ve not met before, but who made excellent company. My notable “mentions” for excellent beer buddies have to include Ivan Pope, the Martin Davies, Martin Judd, Sam Sethi and Hugh Macloud, as well as Robert. PS Robert, don’t forget about making use of veotags on podtech or at the very least asking Guy Kawasaki about them when you see him next.

  • http://www.greatapps.blogspot.com John Wilson

    A truly excellent way to spend a Friday afternoon – Drinking with a large group, most of whom you’ve not met before, but who made excellent company. My notable “mentions” for excellent beer buddies have to include Ivan Pope, the Martin Davies, Martin Judd, Sam Sethi and Hugh Macloud, as well as Robert. PS Robert, don’t forget about making use of veotags on podtech or at the very least asking Guy Kawasaki about them when you see him next.

  • http://www.a4fs.net/ Matt C

    hey, wonder if you could address a factual problem in your WSJ debate with Winer.

    Searching “Scoble blog” at live.com and google both yield the old weblogs site instead of the new one as the first result

    http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=scoble+blog&mkt=en-us&FORM=LVSP&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=Search
    http://www.google.com/search?q=scoble+blog&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

  • http://www.a4fs.net Matt C

    hey, wonder if you could address a factual problem in your WSJ debate with Winer.

    Searching “Scoble blog” at live.com and google both yield the old weblogs site instead of the new one as the first result

    http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=scoble+blog&mkt=en-us&FORM=LVSP&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=Search
    http://www.google.com/search?q=scoble+blog&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

  • KIWI

    I’ve got chronic tinea. And it’s itchy! It started in my toes, but didn’t waste any time making its way to my crotch.

    Bugger, sometimes it’s tough being a Kiwi!

  • KIWI

    I’ve got chronic tinea. And it’s itchy! It started in my toes, but didn’t waste any time making its way to my crotch.

    Bugger, sometimes it’s tough being a Kiwi!

  • KIWI

    Does anyone have a cure? I’m sure most of you tech geeks have had something similar at one time or another.

  • KIWI

    Does anyone have a cure? I’m sure most of you tech geeks have had something similar at one time or another.

  • http://www.broadstuff.com/ Alan Patrick

    Robert – Good to meet you Friday morning, I see you survived till the Firefox bash…my liver wouldn’t allow me to go on the pub crawl :)

  • http://www.broadstuff.com Alan Patrick

    Robert – Good to meet you Friday morning, I see you survived till the Firefox bash…my liver wouldn’t allow me to go on the pub crawl :)

  • http://www.darrenstraight.com/blog Darren Straight

    Ok peeps, pics uploaded:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenstraight/sets/72157594401677779/

    Enjoy all 218 photos! :)

  • http://www.darrenstraight.com/blog Darren Straight

    Ok peeps, pics uploaded:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenstraight/sets/72157594401677779/

    Enjoy all 218 photos! :)

  • James Brown

    Hi Robert and all,

    Was great to meet you and everyone (albeit briefly) – I was the guy from the British Library. Don’t always get the chance to grab a couple of beers before heading back to work in the afternoon! And cheers for the photos, Darren.

  • James Brown

    Hi Robert and all,

    Was great to meet you and everyone (albeit briefly) – I was the guy from the British Library. Don’t always get the chance to grab a couple of beers before heading back to work in the afternoon! And cheers for the photos, Darren.

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  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Matt: the search comparison I was doing is for simply:

    scoble

    Not “Scoble’s blog.”

    Lots of people search the search engines for “scoble” so that’s the more important one to fix.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Matt: the search comparison I was doing is for simply:

    scoble

    Not “Scoble’s blog.”

    Lots of people search the search engines for “scoble” so that’s the more important one to fix.

  • http://blog.snipperoo.com/ Ivan Pope

    Here’s my contribution:

  • http://blog.snipperoo.com Ivan Pope

    Here’s my contribution:

  • http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/ Improbulus

    Hi Robert, nice to meet you again.

    Just to say no need to specifically blog that anti-comment spam service because I found it (and have now put in a plea to Blogger to incorporate it, or something similar, at http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2006/12/anti-comment-spam-akismet-what-about.html).

    Thanks again for the suggestion.

    Imp.

  • http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com Improbulus

    Hi Robert, nice to meet you again.

    Just to say no need to specifically blog that anti-comment spam service because I found it (and have now put in a plea to Blogger to incorporate it, or something similar, at http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2006/12/anti-comment-spam-akismet-what-about.html).

    Thanks again for the suggestion.

    Imp.

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  • http://www.nigelcooke.com/ monkeyleader

    Finally got around to posting some of my photos from the London meet

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/myotherphotos/sets/72157594431986185/

  • http://www.nigelcooke.com monkeyleader

    Finally got around to posting some of my photos from the London meet

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/myotherphotos/sets/72157594431986185/

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