The Co working space in Lausanne (ECLAU/FB) is an interesting idea for freelancers and those who have some work to do but do not want to work from home or a cafe. There are desks and couches, a meeting space and more from which individual work and team work can be done. I was there for an Apero last night and got to meet a few of the people. At the moment there are four people there using the space full time and another who go there occasionally.
This morning whilst tweeting with Fahran Rehman we decided that we would like to organise a twitter event in London with a difference. Twestival and twinterval are great ideas but we’re thinking of doing something over a period of two days that would be like a podcamp but over two days and we need your ideas to make it worthwhile. Already we have 27 people on facebook interested in the project and another 6 so far on tweetcamp.
I believe I’m living the social media lifestyle, that is that wherever I go I have both my mobile phone and my ipod touch. As a result I am never more than a hotspot away from the world wide web and it’s content. In Switzerland I’m online as I hike through the mountains taking pictures which I can then upload to flickr for you to enjoy. That’s also the reason I decided to start a new blog called The Social Media Lifestyle.
Here are some old images of Geneva in Switzerland taken over a century ago. You can see how the land used to look and how it looks now. You can see some of the old streets and the contours. Now it’s a mass of buildings and the relief is hidden. [caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“500” caption=“Geneva many years ago”][/caption] Then Such a contrast between the two. And the gare de Cornavin And to see how it is now For more images of the set.
Today I had the pleasure of meeting Ornit Barkai, a documentary producer working on a documentary about the social media. Her project is one which I am particularly interested in because she is taking an exploratory approach through interviews to see what the social media are, She told me that she has documentaries with Jeff Pulver and many other interesting social media people. This also includes some friends of mine, Phil Campbell and Chris of Ourmaninside.
richard - Dec 1, 2008
Dan: I will do, decided to start a new blog at the same time, in parallel with this one. I’ll keep an eye on your blog by the same opportunity. Dean: It was nice to meet you outside of England for a change, away from the usual anglo saxon environment. I did create a secondary twitter account but for the moment I don’t use that one much although I may need to push it back into service for those that don’t like me to saturate them too greatly.
Leweb for me was about two things, meeting my seesmic friends and meeting new people. It’s through meeting friends that are familiar to me on the web that I had the best times. In particular I enjoyed meeting with Alex, nutrisionist 2.0 as is mentioned in his tagline. What was great about meeting him is the amount of hours we spent just chatting about one thing, then another. It was fun to get to know the person behind the persona.
Piotr - Dec 2, 2008
Looks like a hardship assignment!
Loic Lemeur giving an interview to a journalist with a nice big seesmic logo behind him.
There’s also the social side. Hermione of Techfluff.tv and Alicia L’americaine . There’s a video I should upload of Hermione dancing with three mariachi but I’ll do that once I get access to more bandwidth.
The stage isn’t even ready at Leweb but already the networking started this evening as a few companies presented their companies and what they can do. At the same time i got to meet two London friends as well as some others. It’s seesmic that invited me so there’s a good chance you can find me at the seesmic stand at various moments of the day. As I’ll be online from there you should see my tweets and even my seesmic videos.