Back from the Firefox party … Jeff Ubois on book scanning on Dave Winer’s RSS couch
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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December 1st, 2006 at 4:04 pm
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/
December 1st, 2006 at 4:53 pm
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 :-/
December 1st, 2006 at 4:56 pm
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?
December 1st, 2006 at 6:51 pm
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 ;)
December 1st, 2006 at 7:19 pm
Yup, that was me. Which one were you?
December 1st, 2006 at 8:08 pm
What’s a tour around the City! Keep it up!
December 1st, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Hey Robert,
I made it home safely [but only just]…. thanks for a great day out.
See you next time!
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:48 am
Great day - will need to get the photos up on Flickr. Tagged of course as Pissedasnewts06 :)
Nige
December 2nd, 2006 at 2:23 am
@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! :)
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:26 am
Great to meet you all - bracing myself for the flickr photos… :-)
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:09 am
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?
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:51 am
Uuurgh, aaagh. Just resurfacing after topping off the crawl with the Internet People and Firefox parties. Good fun, video coming later.
December 2nd, 2006 at 11:50 am
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.
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:50 pm
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
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:16 pm
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!
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Does anyone have a cure? I’m sure most of you tech geeks have had something similar at one time or another.
December 3rd, 2006 at 5:43 am
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 :)
December 3rd, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Ok peeps, pics uploaded:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrenstraight/sets/72157594401677779/
Enjoy all 218 photos! :)
December 4th, 2006 at 4:03 am
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.
December 4th, 2006 at 4:31 am
[...] Friday was time spent with Robert Scoble and Hugh McLeod. Darren Streight publishes his awesome Flickr photoset of last Friday’s London “Pissed As Newts” pub crawl and the Firefox party that followed afterwards. I got lucky and stayed out of the pictures! Whilst on the tour it was amazing to see how Hugh McLeod’s Stormhoek promotion had gone mass market with coverage on BBC Five Segment,, BBC Online news article and Times Online. [...]
December 4th, 2006 at 4:34 am
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.
December 4th, 2006 at 11:25 am
Here’s my contribution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC638HzU1NE
December 4th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
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.
December 4th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Firefox 2 London launch party: people, (other) pro
I went to the London launch party for Firefox 2 last night, and all I got was this red XL Firefox T-shirt (oh and a Firefox sticker too)…
Actually I also got another one, a blue French Firefox T-shirt…
Long story, but I was moaning that the Goo…
December 21st, 2006 at 1:30 pm
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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