Last night's Oxford Geek Night was completely mental. As I spent all yesterday going to London and back I'm still recovering from the organizing and the late night.
The musical keynotes and Q&A with Rhodri and Ian went down really well: Rhodri's laconic discussion of a musician's experience of the new web complemented Ian's more in-depth discussion of the way tech might solve the industry's worsening financial problems---even if by the end of the session we still couldn't decide whether or not they were going to solve the very difficulties experienced by musicians like Rhodri.
Having Ben lead them in with the genius of his twelve-second song about 12seconds.tv and of course You're No-one if You're Not on Twitter was also great to watch. Last time Ben played an OGN it was to the few appreciative people at the front who could hear him (such are the vagaries of PA): I think pretty much everyone listened in last night.
All the microslots were brilliant too, of course, but I'm going to quietly elide them right now in favour of getting an early night. We'll be putting videos and slides up soon, and I'll probably point at them then as there are one or two things that really resonated.
In the same way that Ben was surprised by the sudden interest in his Twitter song, we've had a brief mention on Metafilter and a heads-up from Tom on the Yahoo! developer blog. I hope to get writeups together for the Google OS Code Blog and the Torchbox blog after a weekend of barbecues and sleep.
