{"id":1324,"date":"2009-01-21T15:21:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T15:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2009-01-21T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T15:21:35","slug":"bookcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/bookcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"bookcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embarrassingly belated report on <a href=\"http:\/\/bookcamp.pbwiki.com\/\">bookcamp<\/a> (I&#8217;ve taken this long just to follow up on conversations). It was a delightfully un-stuffy unconference exploring bookish and net-ish tech-ish things, last Saturday, at <a href=\"http:\/\/the-hub.net\/places\/kingscross\/contact.html\">the new Hub space in Kings Cross<\/a>. I listened to <a href=\"http:\/\/fifthestate.co.uk\/author\/katehyde\">Kate Hyde <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/fifthestate.co.uk\/author\/markjohnson\/\">Mark Johnson<\/a> from HarperCollins discussing HC&#8217;s new online communities (I particularly enjoyed being able to quiz them about the community dynamics of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authonomy.com\/\">Authonomy<\/a>). Later, I heard James Bridle explain how he&#8217;d hacked together existing web-based services to set up <a href=\"http:\/\/bookkake.com\/\">Bookkake<\/a>, a book publishing imprint in his bedroom, heard literary agents, publishers, writers, assorted digerati and mischief-makers debating whether or not writers&#8217; salaries were doomed, and gave a talk on the tradition of the book in which I invented a word (printy) and apparently got away with it. Slideshare version of the talk to follow.<br \/>\nAll in all it was a splendid day. Many thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/shorttermmemoryloss.com\/\">James Bridle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thepenguinblog.typepad.com\/\">Jeremy Ettinghausen<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/russelldavies.typepad.com\/planning\/\">Russell Davies<\/a> for organising it, along with the mysterious <a href=\"http:\/\/bookcamp.pbwiki.com\/PaperCamp\">PaperCamp<\/a> happening upstairs, from which I heard roars of applause around every half hour.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll post more thoughts arising from the day when it&#8217;s had a chance to settle a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embarrassingly belated report on bookcamp (I&#8217;ve taken this long just to follow up on conversations). It was a delightfully un-stuffy unconference exploring bookish and net-ish tech-ish things, last Saturday, at the new Hub space in Kings Cross. I listened to Kate Hyde and Mark Johnson from HarperCollins discussing HC&#8217;s new online communities (I particularly enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2205,3188,3387],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookcamp","tag-conference","tag-penguin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}