Funkadelic's classic album: Maggotbrain

Emboldened and inspired by this I re-purposed many of the things I talked about (and even shamelessly stole the session title from the previous year: Mashup Market) to run a session at Manchester’s Social Media Cafe last Wednesday night. The #smc_mcr as it likes to be known for short is Manchester’s branch of the Tuttle Club, a mixture of media types, bloggers and technology enthusiasts and a fair few ed-tech folk with things to say and ideas to germinate. The ed-tech force was in fact particularly strong this time with David Bird from MMU also running a session on social media in education in parallel with me.

While we may not have got quite as baroque as one would have at CETIS it was excellent to be sharing the wealth with a wider community.

Walk this way the full writeup of the SMC_MCR Mashup Market on Samscam

• Seed nanobots Lay down necessary infrastructure for scalable deployment
• Buzzing Let a few of people get a glimpse of something interesting, strut up and down making beep-beep noises
• Abduction Grab a likely looking individual or two
• Anal probe Embed the technologies into your best abductees – creating drones
• Infection Use the drones to spread the technology through their peers
• Mind control Mass marketing through cosmic rays
• Total invasion!

Please note that this invasion plan is not endorsed by JISC, CETIS or the University of Bolton