Sat here in eyebeam, NYC on Jonah Perreti’s iBook; where in about 30 minutes I’m due to give a talk on the curse of warchalking…

It’s a pretty amazing space – a large warehouse in the Chelsea district of New York, with some hip conversion touches, but nothing too invasive. In the main room there is a huge fuzzy fur, fabric and UV paint map of manhattan, with little dots marked all over it representing CCTV cameras. One of the other activities in the “I Love NY” event that my talk is part of was a ‘camspotting’ tour of manhattan.

Hopefully this talk will put the lid on the whole warchalking thing for me personally and pass it into the care of the community that’s formed around it so I can get on with the next thing. The next thing being getting really stuck into exploring “Social Software”.

The legacy of ETCON continues, and is starting to permeate the ‘real world’ of my work at the BBC. Looks like social network analysis and tools will pplay an important part of the next few projects I’m doing, and Jonah’s group at Eyebeam are full of good advice and contacts.

Hurrah!