Russell Davies

chris at interesting

Chris here was probably the inspiration for the whole interesting thing. I'd not met him before thinking of the conference but I'd read his blog, which was always interesting, knew he was used to presenting (had done it at lots of tech conferences) and knew he was interested in food. And it occurred to me that it would be fantastic to  hear him talk about food. That was exactly the idea of the thing - get interesting people to talk about their passions. And it had the additional benefit that I got to meet him, over a large fry-up. His talk about a 21st century ebcb was fantastic, just the right thing. Apologies to him and to you for the slightly troubling video camera which interfered with his demos a bit.

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matthew at interesting

Matthew was one of the unexpected delights of Interesting. He got in touch, out of the blue, before the conference, I think because he liked the sound of it all, and asked if he could talk. I said yes because I didn't really know what to expect. What would you expect from the editor of The Spectator? Not a masterful Al Pacino impression and an actual incisive point. Life is full of surprises. (And if you'd like to compare and contrast - here's the original.)

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the triumph of klona

My copy of Churnmore just arrived from Amazon, ordered on Ben's recommendation. And ten minutes later I've read it and loved it. It's the perfect encapsulation of how reasonable people can do stupid things. Again and again and again.

switching

Thinking more about this and that I'm even more convinced that the way to encourage responsible energy use is not through one huge centralised campaign but through a bundle of little things with different actions and motivations. Gavin calls them microcampaigns - like his simple and brilliantly obvious Iveswitched. And there are things like walkit. And the small steps that Jon talks about.

And it strikes me that the best thing that marketingland can do here is swing in behind these things and start donating imagination and cash to try and make some of them 'tip'. We need to support the people with the passion and the ideas.

(Picture from Gavin's flickrstream)

making do

Iain recently wrote a post about the Bonfire Of The Brands book, which I wrote a little bit for, ages ago, and am now slightly afraid of. But a more interesting thing popped up in the comments - a link to Robert Llewellyn's Making Do project on YouTube. Mr Llewellyn's a hero in our house, because of Scrapheap Challenge, and this project is great. He's trying to go for a year without buying anything - making do - it's even more of a challenge because he's clearly a bit of a technophile. Fascinating, funny, honest stuff.

read all about it

This is a brilliant way to capture the full alarmist nonsense horror of the Evening Standard's headlines. (via bobbie)

beeker at interesting

Here's the estimable Rebecca doing her twenty minutes at Interesting. Her topic, obviously, is Ibsen and The Muppets. Top stuff.

elsewhere

Reading this and this I get rather excited with the idea that it might soon be the time when the internet stops being the interesting, inventive, remarkable thing and starts becoming the place where we hear about all the other interesting, inventive, remarkable things.

dave at interesting

Here's one of the real hits of the day. Dave of funkypancake doing over 200 slides in 20 minutes, and not a slide wasted.

gareth school

Following Andrew's tremendous effort Gareth has signed up to do the next Account Planning School of the Web task. I love this, I do nothing at all yet still feel like I'm getting some points for this somehow.