Archive for August 29, 2007

More references to NodeMagazine by William Gibson

Thanks to my friend Memetic Engineer for posting this report on a recent William Gibson book signing in the UK to his excellent blog SpookCountry.co.uk:

William Gibson mentioned Node website at least twice during his reading, talk and signing session at the TUC conference centre in London:

  • The very first question the moderator asked about was the impact of the annotations in the Node magazine node.tumblr.com. - William Gibson seemed to be positive about them, but noted that the previous PR-otaku site for Pattern Recognition took about a year to appear after publication, whilst this project, to which I have added my own annotations here on this blog happened even before the official book publication date.
  • When asked about the impact of “micro-celebrity” and “Web 2.0″ technology, William Gibson again cited his meeting with patternboy who made an impact from a small town in Colorado, with the help of international contributors.

Locative Computing

Locative art is one of the themes in William Gibson’s new novel Spook Country. Here are a few related links:

More to come…

William Gibson in DC

Check out this short video clip of William Gibson at Politics and Prose in Washington DC [courtesy of cordwainer]: http://youtube.com/watch?v=byvR7VbMGQE

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