Time to brush up my public speaking - I'm going to be at a couple of events in November.

On the 11th, here in sunny Brighton, I'm going to be at dConstruct 2005 blathering on about the mobile web, shouting at all these terribly fashionable Web 2.0 types that they're looking in the wrong direction and the humble mobile shall be pissing on their chips over the next few years.

Presuming I make it out of there alive, the next week I'm at World Telemedia in Amsterdam to present a case study on the work we've been doing for Puzzler Media: how you launch a portfolio of casual games in the national press, priced well below any other mobile game offering in the UK, and what you learn when you do this.

Shigeru Miyamoto: "I think what that means is that this model that we’ve seen in gaming so far, where you have a laid-out strategy, you have a map that you go through in a game and you have a clear objective, that this not necessarily the only type of game that’s out there."

I can talk about another project which we did earlier this year for Nokia which was *exactly* along these lines, but it deserves a proper post. Soon... soon...

Priya has released her presentation from Etcon on Project Miljul, a piece of research targeting urban mobile workers. Fascinating stuff.

Are these prototypes really all that interesting? Phones that are jewellery, phones that are all screen, curved devices, thin devices... a lot of this stuff isn't speculation, it's nigh-there, and I would imagine that there's much more interesting stuff lurking in the depths of Nokia than this.

Me? I want to know what happens to us as a society when the third world get the sort of mobile penetration we are fortunate enough to have now - when the starving can communicate directly with the well-fed, say.

Young blog their way to a publishing revolution: "...a third of all young people online have launched their own blog or website." I also liked the idea that "rather than using the internet as their parents do - as an information source, to shop or to read newspapers online - most young people are using it to communicate with one another.". Wonderful.