An enjoyable evening in the company of Dennis, James, Roo, Richard, Hugh, Al and Kyb.
Bedales in Spitalfields is a nice place, although it reminded me of how I frequently wish I knew more about wine – fortunately, Richard and I were guided by both James, and the expert staff.
More feeds for my feedreader. I shall enjoy these. Can’t believe I hadn’t subscribed before.
Good conversations, too. More peer pressure over Twitter – James spent much of the evening receiving updates fed to his phone. I still don’t think I can go there, my impression is that it will be far too intrusive. Opinions split over Scoble – is he still A-list or has he slipped to C-list?
Lots of Macs and Mac talk, although I didn’t have mine with me.
Plus, an opportunity to catch up with Roo on the way home (this came after the part where he smashed all the wine glasses[1], and the part where he scribbled furiously in a Moleskine every 45 seconds). Remarkably unruffled by his latest brush with fame. I’m just sorry that I’ll miss his talk today. And it’s a shame that I wasn’t able to get to the Future of Web Apps conference that Al had been at, too.
I think it’s important to extend blogging contacts via social events. I need to make more of an effort to do this in future. Given how often I’ve been in London of late, it wouldn’t be too hard to choose a date and venue and advertise a gathering.
[1] OK, OK, wine glass, singular. See, you can’t smash things in virtual worlds.
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“I need to make more of an effort to do this in future. Given how often I’ve been in London of late, it wouldn’t be too hard to choose a date and venue and advertise a gathering.”
Agreed. We need to do more of it.
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how about march 12 or 15th? we need a name for the unassociation… any ideas? 8monk? winebar?
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I’d have to duck both of those suggested dates, as I’m helping with an event in Hursley all that week 😦
Great ideas for names. I’ll think about it.
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Ah, check Roo’s post (pingback above) – much better summary – I knew the Moleskine scribbles would be useful.
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‘I think it’s important to extend blogging contacts via social events.’
Is this what used to be called ‘talking to people’? 😛
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@andrew: “social events” was the term used on the night. There was talking, and people were there, I can’t deny it.
@james: we need to incorporate kyb/acc/storm into the name somehow 😉 and winebar is cool, but won’t get us much googlejuice.
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Re names, I still like “Wine 2.0”, though unfortunately it looks like it’s taken.
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Now I’m thinking about Minibar, Winebar seems like quite a nice riff on that (as well as on eightbar). Winebar 2.0? That’s not taken, as far as I can see.
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