Oxford Geeks hit the media!
It looks like the last of the Oxford Geek Nights has caused quite a stir in the media recently. I'm not entirely sure how the Oxford Mail initially came across the story but it got half a page of coverage in last Wednesday's edition (see online version or archived online version)
As a result of this I was contacted by BBC Radio Oxford, BBC South Today and Radio Oxford (Formerly Passion FM) who are all interested in covering the next one. Radio Oxford also interviewed me for about 10 minutes, snippets of which were used in the news every half hour for the next morning.
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Adam from the breakfast show heard the interview I gave to the news team and wanted to interview me live on his breakfast show, although this meant me waking up at 8am on my holiday, I agreed.
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With all this news coverage and potential publicity for the next event, I decided to start planning for the next one. We are looking at Mid April, likely the 11th of April for the next event.
Consider this a call for participants, I need 2 keynotes of 15 minutes and 8 Demos or lightning talks of 5 minutes each. Let me know if you are interested - nat@natbat.net
Adam reminds me why I don’t listen to commercial radio.
garrettc - February 25th, 2007 at 2:58 amWhat a tosser. Well done for holding your own.
James Wheare - February 25th, 2007 at 5:16 pmWhat an absolute idiot, as James said, well done for staying on the interview (since he clearly wasn’t interested in the actual night, but rather just trying to make jokes about the word Geek a lot). I’m not sure I’d have had that much patients!
David Maddison - March 7th, 2007 at 10:33 am[...] If you were at the event last night you may have noticed two women with fancy video cameras interviewing and filming, they were from BBC Oxford South Today. The media coverage has all been a bit of a surprise really, I guess when it got picked up by the Oxford Mail after the last one everyone else wanted to have an “and finally, geeks leave the house” type story! :) [...]
Natalie Downe » Blog Archive » So that was Oxford Geek Night 2 - April 13th, 2007 at 12:28 am