This time last year, I was involved in my first experiment to ‘amplify’ an event.
Of course, we didn’t call it that then - Amplified was still a very much at the planning stages, and I don’t think it had a name, but a group of us from Tuttle and Creative Coffee who were already involved [...]

(written by Steve on the train, late last night)
I’m on my way home from the Birmingham Social Media Cafe “Data, Mashups and APIs” event, sponsored by The Guardian.
The purpose of the event was to present a range of ways that open data is being generated, processed and implemented, ranging from maps showing live data [...]