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[Mashed] My Plans for BBC Mashed [!Hackday] Next Week

Posted on June 13, 2008
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Next weekend is the BBC’s Mashed event, and I think there are a few tickets left, but in any case it’s going to see close to 500 hackers, developers, web 2.0 specialists and a fair proportion of the UK’s digital community in one place. Throw in a bundle of sessions, overnight hacking, and some planned entertainment from the BBC team behind it (and I’ve no idea what it could possibly be… on a Saturday night… with geeks in the room…), and you have the recipe for a fantastic weekend of non-stop stuff. 9am on the Saturday to 5pm on Sunday (and beyond).

If you’re coming along to Mashed, you should be registered with the Backstage Network, in which case you can find me under (surprisingly) Ewan Spence.

Mashed08: London, June 21/2 2008

Regulars to this blog and these events will know that in the past I’ve contributed to some rather fun hacks and projects at these events. During April (at Over the Air) I had the delights of participating in the swedeing of the final episode of Torchwood, which we aired just before actually watching the last episode of Torchwood. I still think our version was more true to life. And I doubt that the Alexandra Palace crowd will forget last year’s Diet Coke and Mentos powered Rocket.

So there’s an in-built ‘anticipation’ about what I’m going to be involved with this year from certain quarters, not least the BBC Backstage team who do sterling work organising the event. Needless to say I’ve spent some time working on a project, and the euraka moment of something reasonably practical happened last Saturday. Since then I’ve been working on the idea, and doing the classic putting the team together.

I’m not quite ready to say hat the project is, because it could all fall flat, but in the best tradition of 3-2-1 (Yorkshire TV, I know, shhh, maybe they won’t notice), I’ll be throwing out some cryptic clues to the project.

It is bigger than last year’s rocket; it will be a hack that interfaces with the physical world… but it is not a rocket.

See you next week - either at Ally Pally, or online through the event (because there is an online component).

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