A fuller report and more photos late,
William Gibson mentioned Node website at least twice during his reading, talk and signing session at the TUC conference centre in London:
- The
very firstsecond 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.
William Gibson said that this was one of the few, genuinely new uses of technology he had come across recently.
I met up with some fun loving members of the William Gibson Board - Hacking the Gibson in London !, who brought more than one sophisticated camera each on average. We visited the Science Museum, Covent Garden and then the TUC conference centre.
Here is my snapshot during the biggest WGB Rest Room Invasion photo yet:
UPDATE:
The Sci-Fi London co-sponsors of the event have now (September 6th) put up a
streamcast video (needs Flash 9), of the Questions and Answers session, with Professor John Sutherland as moderator.
The very first question the moderator asked was the good old "Was Neuromancer really typed on a typewriter?", IIRC.
Probably so.
However the introductory remarks by the moderator Professor John Sutherland, before he got into the Questions, mentioned Node Magazine and William Gibson reacted visibly to that, as did I.
It was a pleasure meeting you, Memetic Engineer.
Thanks so much for your Cyberpunk guide to London. Walking around the neighborhood of my hotel on the first day, I spotted Cybercandy, and immediately went in to buy some Black Black, which was highly appreciated by Wigbers in need of a quick pick-me-up!