Josh Russell

Up to the challenge?

Brian Suda and I (and many others!) seem to continually discuss what may be.

We’re geeks, obviously, but as Chris Messina quoted while at Reboot, “Alpha-geeks are becoming alpha-citizens.“, and thus we discuss all manner of subjects:

• technology
• sociology
• ecology
• business
• ethics
• psychology

The list goes on. But all these conversations eventually evaluate the past, and then try to work out how things may change. Sometimes for the worse, but hopefully for the better!

Finding inspiration from an article written 100 years ago in The Ladies Home Journal, predicting the year 2000, we decided to try and do what they did and predict the future, 1 year from now, then 10, and then 100 years to the year 2100!

You’re now invited to join us in these predictions, firstly online, and then at a short meet up just before the dConstruct conference in Brighton. When we meet, we’ll also discuss the predictions submitted online.

So go submit your predictions, and then join us on the day!

http://predictions.sudabot.com/ < -- This is the important bit!

We’ll meet on September the 4th in Brighton at 5.30pm (upcoming), location TBD.

P.s. don’t feel any pressure to be 100% accurate, this is supposed to be fun too :)

Since I attended the my first London Social Media Cafe (also referred to as the Tuttle club after Harry Tuttle) I wanted to recreate the atmosphere and environment at an event here in Brighton.

photo by Sizemore

The room, while small, was crowded with people. Some old friends, and many that hadn’t attended before. All caught up in the excitement of being around people with genuinely interesting backgrounds and experiences. The conversation was loud and enthusiastic, if you know me then you’ll know that I thrive in that :)

So now I’m ready to announce that the Brighton branch will be starting on Saturday the 16th of August, at 11am, upstairs at the Quadrant.

What is it?
The Social Media Cafe, or Tuttle Club, is a place for people interested in social media to gather, get acquainted, and to plot, scheme, and share.. emphasis on open and interesting conversating!

Who should come?
If you’re interested in the future of media, how we organise, share, produce and enjoy it, then come along. If you’re an artist, film maker, geek, musician, designer, writer, photographer, or anything close or related, then come along. If you want to meet like minds, come along.

With the help of sponsors (which we welcome more of!) the coffee is free, and there should be some breakfast snacks to get us going. There’s free wifi, so bring your laptops if you need to get some work done or want to show off what you’ve been to..

I’m really looking forward to seeing you there!

Update: We have our first sponsor, local social media agency Nixon McInnes. Cheers guys!

We’re thinking of organising a small Sussex Digital meetup. It’ll be really informal, just another opportunity to meet each other and chat. But also an opportunity for those outside of Sussex and Brighton to come and meet the local faces and scope out the talent, interesting companies and projects.

So, when’s best for you? I’ve made a (very) short list of dates that currently fit into the gaps between other events going on. You choose, just select the days that you’d prefer below:

And then let us know what you’d like us to try and do or what we should focus on. Like I said, it’ll be an informal thing, but it would be good to know if you want anything specific:

If it’s just too close to the busy holiday period, maybe we’ll do it in January, a looking forward to 2008 session!

Once we have a date I’ll create an Upcoming event and let you all know.