Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

PSFK Conference London

I gave a short talk about ARGs and Perplex City at the PSFK London Conference last Friday (1 June 2007). It was one of the shortest talks that I’ve ever done - only about 30 minutes - and as with most talks where the majority of the audience is unfamiliar with ARGs, one where the talk raises more questions than it answers just because of its brevity. Not too bad, I thought, but I did get the sense that I was rambling a little and trying to pull out the best examples for a marketing/advertising audience. The video/podcast should be up on PSFK at some point.

Here’s some reaction:

• Comfortable Disorientation (Helen Taylor?)
• Jeremy Ettinghausen of Penguin was on just before me, and gave a great talk about working with the Penguin brand. His reactions to the day are here
• Oh, and here’s a picture of me, taken by Will Humphrey

Update: George Nimeh liveblogged the talk, too.

Hi Dan

If you were rambling, I certainly didn’t notice. Your talk was fascinating! I knew of Perplexcity but had no idea of how deep the game went.

Helen

You were great, one of the highlights of the day for me, shame you only got 30 mins - top work!

It was awesome.

I “live blogged” it here:
http://www.i-boy.com/weblog/2007/06/live-blogging-psfk-london-dan-hon.html

See ya @ the next one …
~G~

Thanks for the feedback guys - do drop me a line if you’ve got any more questions, and I’m glad you enjoyed the talk!

I thought the talk was excellent. One of the highlights of the day.

When I get off my lazy arse and blog the rest of it, I’ll give you a shout (part one is here: http://wannabeadman.blogspot.com/2007/06/psfk-first-3-discussions.html#links).

I may just shoot you an email just to find out a little bit more about it.

Thanks again.

Good to hear it Will, drop me a line if you’d like to find out any more.