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It’s probably about time we sorted LocalGovCamp out again!
For various reasons it’s going to be running after the summer rather than before, as has previously been the case.
So, the two potential dates are 21st or 28th September. Let me know if you feel strongly one way or another in the comments.
Location will be Birmingham as usual, although I am on the lookout for another (cheaper) venue than Maple House, which rather busted the budget last year and made the vein on the side of my forehead swell to an unpleasant degree.
It will be an interesting time to run the event, as cuts bite deeper into local authority budgets. I’m hoping there will be some discussion about how digital can help councils deliver better services for less, and also how we can tackle some of the digital inclusion issues that will emerge around welfare reform.
As always, I’ll be on the lookout for sponsors once I have an idea around costs – the usual benefactors will get an email soon, but if anyone new wants to chip in, just let me know. An Eventbrite page will be up once the details are all confirmed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XluovrUA6Bk
Donald Barthelme, in See the Moon?, in 1968:
Fragments are the only forms I trust.
Italo Calvino, in If on a Winter’s Night, a Traveller, in 1979:
…the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.
Gordon Burn, in Born Yesterday from 2008, writing about the erstwhile Eastenders actress Susan Tully:
A colleague had logged her onto YouTube for the first time that very afternoon, and the fact that just tapping the words ‘Michelle Fowler’ into the thing could back so many moment of the past crowding back – a pandemonium of fragments (an aggregation of fragments is the only kind of whole we have now)…
Jaron Lanier, in You are not a Gadget in 2010:
Instead of people being treated as the sources of their own creativity, commercial aggregation and abstraction sites presented anonymized fragments of creativity as products that might have fallen from the sty or been dug up from the ground, obscuring the true sources.
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