dailytwitter

OFFF the festival of Post Digital Culture Creation - essentially an international design festival closed last Saturday 9th May - I was lucky enough to have a ticket and spent a few days in Oeiras, Lisbon at the event. Portugal is beautiful place and this was reflected in the during three day event, with some of the most talented and creative artist from Europe and the US gathering to debate, discuss and share new ideas.

As ever in my own inimitable style I decided to cover the event for media140 - http://offf09.media140.com

The result?

Well have a look for yourself and let me know what you think…

Wooooah!

Life is rushing forward at such a frenetic pace - so much is happening. I ran the Flora London Marathon on the 26th April on a glorious sunny day in London with 35,000 other runners. It was a heck of a run, at mile 16 it felt like my knees had broken, and so i ran super slow to finish in 4hours and 31minutes - disappointed with my time, yet so pleased to have finished.

Next up, Media140! wow what a rollercoaster ride we have here, from a basic startup idea in February 2009 - into a full blown 250 person event with a whole heap of mainstream media sponsors, amazing speakers, great location and just at the right time - this will be a fantastic day - so don’t miss out - as the tickets are shooting out of the door very quickly.

Whats next? Well i have an Ironman in August, for which

a) i have to buy a bike
b) learn how to swim crawl
c) train for another marathon

In less than 13 weeks - well clearly i don’t do thing by halves.

Looking forward to this year and all the exciting new things that life is bringing my way.

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It was Easter Eunday morning just back from a short trip from Spain, when I started an IM conversation with a colleague in Bangkok about the political battles and street troubles that were happening. The conversation quickly moved towards twitter, microblogging and before we knew it we have decided in the space of 20 minutes to rock up a blog under the banner of the dailytwitter and started broadcasting from Bangkok. My friend is based in down town Bangkok and has first hand knowledge of the city and also the people, having been there for as long as I have known his (less a brief spell in BT - but that’s a completely different story)

So without much effort I created the blog structure in true dailytwitter fashion, and he started writing and covering some of events from Bangkok - literally within listening distance to the gunshots and shouts from the streets. With maps, pictures and commentary coming live from Thailand, this really was something new in the making.

You can follow the postings, even though the events have quieted down somewhat at http://bangkok.dailytwitter.com and follow @nkoleszar here

Its been a while since i wrote a post on dailytwitter have been very busy with other projects and life in general. But its really good news to announce that we have launched a London event called Media140. The first one kicks off on the 20th May on the Southbank in London - with a whole host of mainstream media journalists and bloggers debating, discussing and sharing knowledge around microblogging and twitter. This will be one of many events we will be hosting this year and hope you are able to attend them.

Tickets are currently still selling £35 - so be quick!

dailytwitter team is sponsoring the gumball style rally for twestival with @philcampbell, @documentally, @magiprint and @barnstormed winging their way across the UK.

Starting out in Newcastle, the lads are driving to each twestival via Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading and finally London.

Wishing you the best of luck! The dailytwitter team will be following your progress and will catch you all in London for a great welcome!

Tally ho! and get sponsoring dailytwitter!

Dusting off my Mac Book Pro after a week is something i don’t usually do, the dust usually never has time to settle - but this past week has been busy one for me - what with meeting some great people from London based PR and Event industries, planning fund raising events for the Marathon Des Sables project, pulling together my thoughts for the next steps with dailytwitter and wondering whether the VC I spoke to will call me back - the whole week has been a bit of blur.

However, I digress and wanted to let you know what’s coming next on the dailytwitter front and gather your feedback on the dailytwitter concept - now if your not familiar with what we are up to, check out the about us page.

First up - Channels
Now we have lots of vertical aggregators springing up on the twitter from Stock market information through to Wine fanatics - so our first step is to build a number of content channels.

Our first beta will be Wine, so if you want to get a spot on the channel @dailytwitter

Next up - Recommendations
Big problem with Twitter is you never know who to start following from the outset, you follow a few random people and then you use Mr Tweet and he provides you with some connections - and you fumble along looking for the right path. We think the lead time from your first tweet to tweetness is too long.

And so we are pulling together some starting points by genre and want your thoughts on where we should start - obviously we have some thinking already, but it’d be great to get yours too.

Podcasts, Video and Facebook
We have a podcast lined up with @camurphy talking twitter and dailytwitter, more Video pieces for Seesmic and 12seconds and of course the Facebook group will get something of a makeover

Alpha testers
We are seeking a heap of alpha testers for some of the dailytwitter twitter tools we are building - now this is really simple - leave a comment and we will get in touch with the links and details.

The tools will let you build your own dailytwitter - now we are not giving too much away, but lets just say it will be a surprise and you will like what we are doing.

So, what are you waiting for… drop the team an email or tweet.

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The Friday mix this week is from our friends at 1indienation - a mix of eclectic Soul and Chilled out tracks from Tavares, Gladys Night and the Pips, Marvin Gaye and more - entitled ‘21 FastLaine Grown Folks Mix‘. We like it a lot, and will be featuring more Friday Mix’s over the coming weeks

You can follow 1indienation on twitter or at www.1indienation.com

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We thought we had lost a heap of accounts to the anti-spam brigade at twitter, however following a number of email exchanges with the lovely folk at twitter they agreed to re-instate our twitter accounts.

The team here are please and would like to send a big shout of thanks out to Del at Twitter HQ.

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