You will soon have some new methods for adding your events to listings sites like spraci.com thanks to the use of

microformats /

I've had a look at the wordpress plugin.

I think I could set it up so that when an event is posted to a blog via this plugin it is recognised as an event and posted to the event listings under the correct date, categories, city, etc.

In simple terms:

The use of microformats like hcalendar could provide lots of interesting ways for people to syndicate data such as event details, locations, contact details, etc to to other sites using standard blogging software while still keeping the data in seperate machine-useable fields.

† justin timberlake's 'love guru' bulge is all the rage right now pretty on the outside

† audrina patridge has reached new levels of whiteness with her teeth! i'm bringing blogging back

† mary-louise parker busted her toe while shooting a 'weeds' sex scene seriously? omg! wtf?

† kevin federline accepted his 'father of the year' award in las vegas... webster's is my bitch

† 80's pop singer samantha fox still rocks the camel toe... vanity spy

As you would imagine, a mere two weeks before Mashed everything is getting a little crazy around here!

What I can say so far is that the speakers on the Saturday morning are looking fantastic -

Andy Smith - iPlayer

Nick Gallon - how to hack the BBC's TV services

Audio & Music Interactive - /programmes

Robotics with Microsoft

There are nine talks in total and I'll release more details as the speakers confirm - there's one very special talk we're just sorting flights out for now - so fingers crossed.

Buses - filling up fast - there's only about 10 seats left on each coach now - although the Newcastle and Sheffield bus is filling up the slowest.... come on guys! I'll announce details on times and locations for pick up as soon as they're confirmed by the bus company - but suffice to say - it'll be EARLY and from the centre of each location.

I'm hoping to send out the first 400 invites for the backnetwork site later today / first thing tomorrow - that site contains all the information you need on everythin

Responding to the complaints/accusations regarding Lisa's continued presence on the show, Tom Colicchio once again goes blogging to defend Top Chef's integrity: "I'm compelled to give my once-a-season response to those cynics out there who insist we make our decisions to manipulate the ratings. If I sound defensive, I think I'm entitled ... I think Lisa, along with a few chefs from past seasons, benefited from a phenomenon I call the 'lucky-dog-who-keeps-skating-by-effect.'" [Bravo]

I think the awesome thing about new zealands geek domains is for geeks like me, I have made the magic 8 ball shower, mind you I had to put the shower under SSL on it, as I got sick of instantiated intrusion. It is interesting as the showering comes to a climax like anything in DJ'n you build it up, you don't give the crowd everything in one go. Like all sets, you can even your the theory of interpersonal relations. I for example these days listen to country and more mood setting music's, which is good, I have a grade 7 theory ticket from the con that I got when I was a young strapping youth and was taught classical music by the house of duhurst. I get bored of simplicity in music very easy as when I am listening to music I can see the score.. Much like the shower I guess, a cationic proportions. Why not check out the magic 8 ball shower site i made for a small demo www.shower.geek.nz if your a tripper you can entertain the though of shower blogging or none linear effects of showering, the bottomless drain pl

On October 10-11 2008, Bilkent University Department of Communication and Design, in cooperation with the Institute of Network Cultures, will organise the 3rd Video Vortex event in Ankara, Turkey. Video Vortex 3 Ankara Edition will feature a two-day international conference, evening program, live performances and new media art exhibition.

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The great arbiter of popular culture, the Shoe comic strip, proves this week that the whole food blogging thing has hit a new level of national awareness. It just goes to show, restaurant owners, that New York isn't the only place where the post hungry bloggers dine at restaurants on opening night, take unattractive flash photography of the food, and opine about the service problems on the internet the next day. [Comics Page via SE]

Are cellphones ruining the concert experience?

Perhaps not ruining, but definitely distracting.

(tags: music photography blogging)

How a teacher became a photographer of the working-class kids |The Guardian

How forgotten photos of working class London in the 70's were given a new life thanks to Flickr.

(tags: photography flickr)

The World of Fashion: Pixel Perfect: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

A profile on the fashion world's top photo retoucher.

(tags: photography photoshop retouching fashion)

Video makers, media activists, software developers and artists from 15 countries across the Asia-Pacific will be gathering in Sukabumi, West Java from May 19-25 for an online video skills camp. The goal of the camp is to bring together open source software programmers, video makers and media activists to develop the strategic use of online video distribution for social justice and media democracy.

TX-AP is a joint initiative between media activists in Australia and Indonesia. It is organised collaboratively by EngageMedia (Australia), a video sharing website and free software development, training and networking project and Ruangrupa (Indonesia) a non-profit artist initiative supporting the development of art in the cultural context through events, exhibitions, research and documentation. 50 specially invited media activists and artists will be coming to Indonesia to attend the workshop and share their skills and ideas.

The camp will provide a unique opportunity for artists, video makers, software developers

Friends:

The success of my guest hosting Wednesday’s half show has left me a lot to think about.

I’ll be sharing some of my thoughts live tomorrow:

Thursday, May 1, 2pm Eastern Time.

Thursday’s topic will be Quilting.

Thank you,

Chris Weagel, Yeastio Producer

Mark Jolly, the founder of the luxury travel website, globorati and a writer for for Conde Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure, has been guest blogging for the NY Times' The Moment this week. A recent entry starts off as a condemnation of former travel writer Thomas Kohnstamm's new book about lying and cheating his way through the travel industry, and selling a few drugs in the meantime. Can Jolly relate? Not exactly. "Even during my lean years I never accepted a guidebook commission since the pay was always pitiful," he says. Duh, if Kohnstamm had just gotten a job with Conde Nast none of this ever would have happened. All the same, though, "the real shock is that [Kohnstamm's] the first to blow the whistle on the travel industry's dirty little secret." The real kicker, however, is that Jolly (god, what a name) ends the piece with a bit about how lonely life as a travel writer can be. Yes, yes it is. Especially when you're of the blogging variety and are forced to work all by your lonesome from home as your n

The picture above is what you see if you try to go to shaggy-haired singer Ryan Adams' Tumblr. It was like that pretty much all last night. Adams is non-commital about blogging, so this could be him. But also Tumblr kind of sucks at security lately, so maybe this isn't Adams' fault at all. I mean, the word "hijack" is involved, after all. But given that no one has emailed us about Adams' latest outage, maybe he doesn't have any readers left. Except Sheila, of course!

Atlantic contributor Jeffrey Goldberg started his very first blog this week, with a charmingly naive post mostly about how he knows nothing about blogging but does sit near uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan. "This is almost certainly a mistake," he begins, and it turns out he's 100% right. When the New York Observer's media blogger Matt Haber (the forgotten Gawker Alum!) devoted a post yesterday to basically announcing the existence of Goldberg's blog and needling Goldberg for his initial boneheaded support of the Iraq War, Goldberg blew up with rage. Haber's post was a mugging, he says. Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey. We'll show you what a mugging is. Sitting next to Andrew Sullivan does not mean you have anything to contribute. Especially if you are so inexperienced in this raucous online world that you take such offense at a harmless dig in a post designed to call readers' attention to your brand-new unread online diary. So Goldberg bitched to Andrew Sullivan, who was understandably "unimpressed." The nice way

good evening! over the weekend total hot tranny mess chris crocker (of leave britney alone fame) was spotted out and about on robertson blvd wearing a skimpy neon green lace dress and sporting a message about blogger perez hilton across his chest - i think it's refreshing to finally see someone being honest and not licking his big ass which just about every celebrity in hollywood has done (of course it all comes down to his website's traffic which is crazy insane) even when he talks shit about people - they still seem to love getting all mixed up in his bloggin' bidness! i always tend to err on the side of - if you don't have something nice to say...don't say it at all - hence why you won't see me blogging much about mr. hilton! i actually think mr. crocker sums it up quite nicely...enough said as far as i'm concerned (there's video of chris talking about perez over on celebrity puke) popbytes over & out for now...xxoo PHOTOS | WENN