andfinally.com: the archive edition

the website of Bill Thompson
technology critic and essayist

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Bill Thompson is a ‘controversialist’ – at least according to The Guardian – and pioneer of new media in the UK. Founder of The Guardian’s New Media Lab in the mid 1990’s, he ran the world’s first live Webcast from the ICA in 1994, created the first Website for an elected representative within the EU (Anne Campbell, 1995) and ran the first and so far only online debate for the Prime Minister’s Office (Nexus, 1997). Now he writes and talks about this stuff.
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speaking out

I am often invited to speak at conferences. seminars and other events.

Usually I write an essay about the topic under consideration and then prepare a presentation which acts as a framework for my talk. Both are available here where both exist - sometimes I just make it up as I go along, in which case there's only the essay or maybe even just some scrappy notes.

The presentations are generally in PowerPoint (I know, I know, but there's always OpenOffice) and you will need a viewer to look at them. The essays are Web pages.

If you want my lectures at City University look here

 

 

the presentation

the essay

2006

November 2006

Web 2.0: talk to Bath University Computer Science Society

Slides as a series of GIFS

interesting times

October 2006

Wired futures - talk to APLAWS user group

061013webfutures.ppt

 

September 2006

Email Futures - talk to Astra user group

emailfutures.ppt

 

January 2006

Europe Talks Tickets

sales channels ppt (17 Mb - sorry, lots of pics)

Sales Channels in the WIred World (.doc)

2005

October 2005

Silver Surfers Awards

silversurfers.ppt (3Mb)

BBC column on the topic

July 2005

Hansard Society: Spinning the Web

talk - htm generated from ppt

the paper (taken from 'Spinning the Web')

June 2005

Lugradio

talk - ppt

 

2004

June 2004

Notcon 04

talk

net politics

2003

April 2003

20 things you never knew about the net

 

20things.html

March 2003

Leeds Metropolitan University:
Safe European Home

safe.ppt (165K)

safe.html

March 2003

British Council seminar on Science and the Media

bcouncil.ppt (266K)

bcouncil.html

2002

December 2002

Is Big Business Killing the Net? Cybersalon Xmas Lecture

bigbiz.ppt (41K)

bigbiz.html

Coming Up

See Also...

The BillBlog

Digital Planet

BBC News

w4mp

Cambridge Film Festival podcast

openDemocracy

BBC Webwise

City University

Children's Books

VoxPolitics

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Contact Bill

Email me at bill@andfinally.com or find out what I'm up to or where I came from. You can also read a short biography, 'My Life as a New Media Dog'

This site

This is the old version of the site, left here so that links don't get broken. Please don't rely on anything you read here being up to date - go to the home page at http://www.andfinally.com/ for current information

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