“Say… what’s occuring, what goes on?
[it’s the only choice]
IT’S XCOM#1
[It’s the only choice]
So get me some…”

(With apologies to Pop Will Eat Itself)

This Sunday in London sees the inaugural XCOM – a joint production of NTK and Mute magazine. It’s billed as a festival of inappropriate technology, with a stellar line-up of old-skool Spectrum games authors, and luminaries of sci-fi and just plain, uh, sci: George and Freeman Dyson!

The haddock crew are currently brewing up some break-out talks from the main hall, looking at inappropriate tech in practice – bots, blogs and the way-new community will get a thrashing at informal panels in the pub across the road. More as it breaks.

Multi-media “pundit” and big-girls blouse Dave Green gets featured in today’s Guardian talking about the event, and also appearing (and always worth a listen) will be Cory Doctorow and Tom Standage

Tom’s book, “The Victorian Internet” has been turned into a museum (and online) exhibit called “The Once and Future Web”

Anyway – this Sunday should be a blast. If you can make it to London, make sure you get along there.