Comments on: The Apple iPod Shuffle Shuffle from OpenTech 2005

By: Welcome to The MP3 Shuffle « The Music Shuffe

Welcome to The MP3 Shuffle « The Music Shuffe — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:23:38 +0000

[...] Welcome to The MP3 Shuffle In Uncategorized on February 20, 2009 at 10:04 am The MP3 Shffle is another of my mad ideas. Inspired by a mistake made long ago at Open Tech 2005, I want to do some sharing of music at the upcoming SXSW Interactive conference. But I want to try something a bit more physical, and polish the idea of the iPod Shuffle Shuffle from Open Tech 2005. [...]

By: philwilson.org » Blog Archive » OpenTech 2008 announced

philwilson.org » Blog Archive » OpenTech 2008 announced — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:14:44 +0000

[...] in 2005 just a few days after the attempted bomb attacks in London and was totally awesome. It saw Ewan’s iPod Shuffle Shuffle the forming of the ORG (I’d totally forgotten that this was where it happened until Suw reminded [...]

By: The All New Ewan’s Musings » Two Podcasts For Your Enjoyment

The All New Ewan’s Musings » Two Podcasts For Your Enjoyment — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:58:39 +0000

[...] The first is the latest in the TPN Rock Takeover shows, where I ask internet ‘names’ and podcasters to try their hand at doing the unsigned, unknown, and under-appreciated Rock music show. This week was Chris Green, now the editor of the IT Pro website (Dennis Publishing) in the UK, and the straight man in the infamous iPod Shuffle Shuffle demonstration. [...]

By: chrisgreen.co.uk » TPN Rock Takeover

chrisgreen.co.uk » TPN Rock Takeover — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:46:48 +0000

[...] Ewan Spence, he of iPod Shuffle Shuffle fame (see here and here and here), has given me the chance to guest host an episode of TPN Rock, the weekly rock music show over on The Podcast Network that showcases the best unsigned, unknown and underappreciated rock music from around the world. [...]

By: The All New Ewan’s Musings » [Le Web 3] Loic Le Meur’s Reply and My Thoughts

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:26:10 +0000

[...] I’ve been there. I’ve helped organised conference programs (NotCon2004 notably, but there are others). And I’ve made wrong decisions as well. Admittedly not in front of 1000 people, but making a super bad judgment call when chairing a panel at Open Tech. My split second decision resulted in a conference attendee loosing his iPod shuffle and the incredibly valuable data stored on it. How you deal with issues like this is vitally important. In my case it was an immediate apology at the conference to the person in question, followed by a full and frank blog post as soon as possible, along with dialog in private. This resulted in a happy conclusion. But I have always delivered what was promised to the audience, to the people paying good money in good faith, and I have always taken on board all their comments and critique. [...]

By: chrisgreen.co.uk » Mad podcasting Scotsman in house-clearing raffle shocker!

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:28:35 +0000

[...] Ewan Spence, he of the 2005 iPod Shuffle Shuffle incident, is moving home. Trouble is, his new home is smaller than his current place, which means he needs to get rid of some of his surplus stuff such as gadgets, videos, tapes and so on. [...]

By: The All New Ewan’s Musings » Doing The iPod Shuffle Shuffle Double Act

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:05:46 +0000

[...] The chances are that you will remember my presentation of “Physical Media Hacking” at this years Open Tech Extreme, and the agonisingly funny iPod Shuffle Shuffle experiment that I did. Something I recognised at this year’s EuroOSCon was that this is one of those stories that has gone round the net, leading to me being recognised in some instances as “the iPod Shuffle Shuffle Guy.” Even Gareth Jones’ (Gaz Top’s) partner has asked if it was me in hushed tones while they were at the Edinburgh Festival. [...]

By: The Daily Grind

The Daily Grind — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 23:57:26 +0000

OpenTech… again

Wow. There’s a blast from the past. I’m currently — that is, over on the other Mac right this…

By: Giles Turnbull

Giles Turnbull — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:45:18 +0000

O’Reilly Developer Weblogs

Owners of iPod shuffles: beware. The next time you attend some geek conference and some dude stands up at the front asking you to raise your hands, think carefully about the possible consequences.

“Some dude” in this instance might be a Scotsman called Ewan Spence who decided to demonstrate the ultimate music mix experiment while taking part in the Opentech geek get-together in London last Saturday.

By: Kryogenix

Kryogenix — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:01:07 +0000

Two Cool Things That Happened at OpenTech

The second cool thing was some “physical media hacking”: Ewan Spence asked for people with iPod Shuffles to come down to the front. He had five volunteers; he took their Shuffles and put them in a box, and then, while saying “and now we hack this media!“, shook the box and then gave each of the five back a random Shuffle. Ha! Good things about this: as Ewan said, this is what media hacking is all about; you try a new thing, and if you don’t like it you go back to what you had before. And it was hilarious. The people who were shuffled didn’t think so, mind; one bloke had a face as black as thunder. He may have had some private information other than mp3s on it, mind; nonetheless, it was an excellent bit of crowd-pleasing by Ewan.

By: stroppycow

stroppycow — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:02:13 +0000

Even if mine had been a shuffle rather than a mini, I wouldn’t have volunteered… way too many embarrasing tracks on it.

By: alfie

alfie — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:19:40 +0000

simply a genius participation idea, pity you didnt have 4 512 shuffles but then again no-one can really be sore unless they’re cynical bastards :D Nice job mate.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:37:24 +0000

As one of the volunteers, I can vouch for the combination of amusement and trepidation :)

Once the shuffle shuffle was over, I inserted the one I’d been handed into my laptop..

First thought: “Ah, this person uses gnupod too! what’re the chances!” (at Open Tech, probably fairly high) followed by “Hmm, this person has a strangely familiar collection of Bruckner and Radio 4 comedy..” – yep, got my own shuffle back. A 20% chance and something of a relief!

A good jape all round though. Glad the guy got his PGP key back

By: Random Acts Of Reality

Random Acts Of Reality — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:38:44 +0000

OpenTech

On Saturday I went to OpenTech 2005, and not only did I get to meet some great people and listen …

By: davblog

davblog — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:06:52 +0000

Opentech

Just back from Opentech, so here are a few random notes. I’ll hopefully fill in more details later. I started…