Got very little (if any) sleep last night, so was reasonably on time getting into Capital today for barcamp in Leicester Square. Weirdly, just after I arrived, a member of the staff there walked over and said hi (later he mentioned that my name came up in conversation yesterday!)

Anyway, the Wifi has only just started working (over-engineered original solution, it appears) and I'm now sitting ion my second session of the afternoon. I've decided to offer two sessions which, for ease of giving, I've put consecutively on the timetable and in the same room.

More as it comes!

"`First, I would like to examine the voter turnout for the recently finished LJ advisory board elections. 35460 accounts cast votes in the Russian and English polls combined. At this current time, according to stats.bml, there are 1789025 active accounts, 956685 accounts that have been updated in the last 30 days, and 545102 accounts updated in the last 7 days. So out of all active accounts, only 1.98% voted; 3.71% or 6.51% voted out of the accounts updated in the last 30 or 7 days, respectively. I think the 7 days number is most interesting, because those are the users who used LiveJournal during the period when the polls were open. To look at this another way, 93.5% of the accounts that bothered to update didn't bother to vote."

So I've just finished my two sessions ... the "democracy in an online world" one had three guys cmoe along and generated some useful ideas which I will test over the next week. The "Motivation" one overflowed, with people having to sit on the floor, with a dozen people squashing in to room better suited for eight. I'm reasonably pleased how they went though clearly different to making the similar presentation on a panel or to a large conference.

Currently in a session about the MOO API.

ps. Sorry about the typo in the header of the previous post. I corrected it but it didn't get pickedup by the RSS feed consumers!