Nokia, Orange in Software Pact: "The focus of the collaboration is to create an Orange specific software package to complement S60 software on Symbian OS and to accelerate the Orange device customization process. This will in turn help S60 device manufacturers, who will benefit from greater cost efficiency and shorter time-to-market."

Handset vendors and operators collaborating on customisation of the device? Interesting to see how or if the conflicts between these two parties are resolved in the final product...

Done my talk. Hmm - needed more preparation I think. I said the things I wanted to say, but the words jumbled together somewhat and I had to speak at double-speed (which to a human being is probably quad-speed) to fit it all in.

Still, the audience got dragged through feathery ecosystems, infinite play, and why I'm forever linked to Ross Kemp...

Slides here!

Playtime was absolutely excellent by the way. A big YAY to Tim and Rob for organising the whole thing, I found it really thought provoking and met some really interesting folks there...

Tim Wright steps up.

Grew up without computers, blogs or mobile phones. Talks about Oldton. First comments led away from where Tim thought it would go. It's all about putting childhood memories into a fictional setting.

Googlers took it up and started contributing.

Coincidences followed... Tim's dad *had* been to Oldton as a sailor! Folks then start accusing Tim of faking stuff, of course :)

Tim had a lot of content to deal with but wasn't sure what to do with it. At another conference he heard a lot of talk about cards as a story-telling tool, tokens in gameplay, as items of value, with suits, etc. "Cards are just an unbound book, aren't they?"> He also wanted to build and draw a map, using assets from the blog to create a guided tour of the town.

"You're not sure whether people will collude with you in your engagement, or sabotage you."

The project turned from a blog collection to a mapping project to a card-related narrative...

Gavin Stewart, poet.

Poetry is rooted in play. A poem is "a bicycle made out of jelly, an accident where no-one is to blame".

"There's no such thing as an audience any more, just artists who haven't discovered they aren't artists yet"

Showed off some quite amusing poetry/Flash crossovers.

Pat Kane returns to the podium to talk about blogging: having been a journalist, he feels the freedom of complete editorial control, despite the fact that your audience is way smaller. His experience of blogging is "a synergy between mental play and community play".

"For a successful blog, have a well-crafted and at first sight contradictory meme" :)

When you blog, you don't know how you'll be used - "you surrender yourself to the semantic enthusiasms of the world", in the same manner that during play you're surrendering yourself to the activity.

Talked about enthusiasm for one of his less relevant blog posts - I know how he feels.

Talked about "Crumping" - one for you James :)