Russell Davies

caveats, coffee, afternoon tea

So, the presentation at w+k is tomorrow at 5. You're all welcome, but, how do I put this? please, if you're going to come, keep your expectations low. All I'm going to do is show the websites I mentioned here and maybe talk a little about them, that's it, no clever theories, startling insights or decent jokes. So don't, you know, go out of your way.

Maybe Howard Gossage put it best:

So if you're near Brick Lane and you're not doing anything better, like going home or watching TV or sleeping and fancy being in a slightly warm room with lots of strangers listening to a man show you websites that you could just visit yourself at your own leisure, then please stop in.

Expectation management; the key to a happy life.

Secondly - coffee. No coffee morning this week, I shall be on a jet plane. But next week, Friday, 4pm, Breakfast Club, afternoon tea.

the plan for the w+k presentation

So the presentation at w+k is on Thursday, 5pm, Neil says you're all welcome to come if you like. To those who offered to present/chat themselves, thanks for that and we'll set that up for a future occasion.

I thought I'd start with the above chart, because it tells a story on its own. And then refer to all the comments here, from all you lovely people.

Then, thinking about the audience, I'm not going to bang on about any clever theories, I'm just going to show stuff, stuff that's real, interesting, quick and visual. (One of the reasons TV advertising is still so central to corporate communications is that you can press a button and 30 or 60 seconds later you're done. Presenting webstuff is always such a nightmare. Even if you're good at demo-ing.)

In no particular order I thought I'd try and get through We Feel Fine, Zootube, Ze Frank, One Thousand Paintings, American Apparel and Radio One in Second Life, Birds Eye Peas, SwarmSketch,  Sheepmarket/Mechanical Turk,  Learning To Love You More, Lost (leaking out into the world), Interact10ways (if I can do it quickly) and end with the YouTube of Spore if they look awake enough for it (but I suspect it won't work well on a big screen). If that takes less time than I thought then we'll just start clicking through the comments on that post.

Thanks again for all the help. When/if I think of an elegant wrapping for all this randomness I'll post it here.