This is a liveblog of the NESTA fringe event on the Creative Industries.  I took contemporaneous notes and pulled in a few live comments from Timforchange as he tagged his tweets #nesta and #cpo09.
Immediately after the session, I made an Audioboo thinking about what I’d heard and how different the mood was from a similar [...]

(written by Steve on the train, late last night)
I’m on my way home from the Birmingham Social Media Cafe “Data, Mashups and APIs” event, sponsored by The Guardian.
The purpose of the event was to present a range of ways that open data is being generated, processed and implemented, ranging from maps showing live data [...]

We’ve had a week to recover from the frantic Amplification of the CSLive event last week – Joanne, Lucy, Christian, Benjamin and I (Steve) were there under the amplified banner at the invitation of the Central Office Of Information, to ‘do the Amplified thing’ at their event.
The relationship between the civil service and social media [...]