“If you build it, they will come”. To what extent does this apply to Facebook and MySpace sites and, if no one comes, just exactly what can you do about it? Claudia will discuss this and other questions in relation to her Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma) Lab research Participatory Media project ( http://108presentsforsuu.googlepages.com/home ).

Miffy Johnston’s Toenails and Other Stories – a combination of fiction and non fiction 100 word stories using Sophie ( http://www.sophieproject.org ), an open-source platform for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment, created by The Institute for the Future of the Book.

Presenting his work drumming – becoming – forgetting ( www.drummingandme.blogspot.com ), a ‘blunder… a cross between a weblog, a ponder, a wander through time and a terrible mistake.” This one is about the role of percussion in his life.

Discussing her ongoing project to develop a next-generation rich-media tour for the UNESCO World Heritage city of Bath.

Showcasing Staying Single, Alison’s first cross-media work of fictional blogging which gave readers a variety of ways to engage, participate with and receive the story, including fragmented chapters emailed to subscribers, SMS alerts through Twitter, mini documentaries of real-life stories, meet-ups in Second Life and Machinima films. She will also offer a sneak-preview of her plans for her second cross-media fiction I ♥ NY.

Fitting the Pattern: or being a dressmaker’s daughter –
a memoir in pieces (embroidered)

Cutting through the memories, stitching up the fabrications, pinning down the facts, unpicking the past… An interactive memoir, created in Flash, exploring aspects of my relationship with my dressmaking mother.