http://ourmaninside.com aka Documentally Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:47:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once again it's June the 25th. I spent most of the day doing the same thing I did this time last year and this time the year before last..  I had a picnic at the Grave of Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell. Today is his birthday and for the ... http://ourmaninside.com/2009/06/25/happy-birthday-george-orwell/ When I told people I was to be sat on a panel with Paul Carr from the Guardian a couple responded.. "Paul Carr? He's a bit of a dick." "What makes you say that?" I asked. "It says so on his twitter profile." Fair enough I thought, but when I met him he ... http://ourmaninside.com/2009/06/24/paul-carr-140-characters-conference-new-york/ Jeff Pulver, the chairman and founder of Pulver.com was the main man behind the 140 characters conference in New York that brought together Twitter users from all over the world. New york was the first of the 140 Characters conference and others are planned in both London and Los Angeles. Originally ... http://ourmaninside.com/2009/06/23/jeff-pulver-140-conference-new-york/ During the 140 characters conference in New York I got to connect with some really fascinating people. Moeed Ahmed is the Supervisor of Internet Media, New Media section with Aljazeera in Doha, Qatar. With the help of Matt (@Barnstormed), I managed to grab a few words with him at my hotel. This ... http://ourmaninside.com/2009/06/23/aljazeera-on-new-media/ Background It's been ages since I was the proud owner of a decent HD camcorder. The last one I had was a 3ccd Panasonic that took DV tapes. At the time it was way too good for what I needed, so I sold it to upgrade my stills camera. Ever since then ... http://ourmaninside.com/2009/06/10/panasonic-hdc-tm300-review/ E3 was a blast.. Loads of meetings, loads of gameplay, some Audioboo action and no doubt this will all keep trickeling into my feeds over the coming weeks.. On the last day at E3 we were ushered into a room within the Xbox Live stand and sat with Aaron Greenberg (Director ... http://ourmaninside.com/2009/06/09/aaron-greenberg-talks-to-bloggers-at-e3-2009/ I'm writing this on my last few minutes of battery power, about 38,000ft above sea level, with six and a half hours left on my flight from London to Los Angles. I am traveling in a group of thirteen after being asked by Digital Outlook, in association with Xbox, to blog ... http://ourmaninside.com/2009/06/01/blogging-the-e3-expo-los-angeles-2009/ StationX in its modern incarnation was born on the 16th of February 2009. The intention was to create a social media geek-meet, offering access to Bletchley Park for bloggers, tech lovers and social media types, in return for helping amplify Bletchley Park's online campaign. With this common cause in mind, approximately ... http://ourmaninside.com/2009/05/25/station-x/ The other week while on assignment at Reuters with @sizemore, I was talking to @ilicco about how the more kit i try to juggle the more diluted the content can become. I was sat at the front of an almost exciting talk from the FSA with laptop, iPhone, N95, Kodak Zi6 ... http://ourmaninside.com/2009/03/30/multi-multimedia/ I am not a Freemason but i have been asked more than once to don the apron and swear the oaths.. I have also been told that Freemasonry is not a secret society, It is a society with secrets. Never-the-less, it was the thought of being admitted to a secret society that ... http://ourmaninside.com/2009/03/21/were-secret-societies-the-first-social-networks/