Interviews and more from XTech 2007

Interviews from XTech

Ian Forrester from BBC Backstage has posted several video interviews he conducted at XTech, including chats with:

• Steven Pemberton (CWI W3C) and Michael Smith (W3C)
• Ralph Meijer of Jaiku
• Jeremy Keith of Clearleft
• Kevin Anderson (Guardian) and Suw Charman

One old friend at XTech familiar to the XML community was Peter Murray-Rust, founder of the XML-DEV mailing list. Professor Murray-Rust’s interests now range widely around Open Data topics.

XTech sponsors Talis conducted an interview with Professor Murray-Rust, available as a podcast. Topics covered include the changing nature of academic publishing, the importance of primary data to the process, and the potential of the Semantic Web in both streamlining and enriching the endeavour.

Expectnation launches

Expectnation, the speaker, schedule and web site management software behind XTech, has now launched. The brainchild of conference chair Edd Dumbill, Expectnation is now available as a web service for other conferences.