"The ways in which people gather and the guise in which the choose to meet are a couple of things that fascinate me. Recently (we are talking 12-18 months) there has been a surge of “un” events being held across the UK (mainly middle England) – whose facilitation has occurred through websites such as Twitter."

"A family friendly festival where 'normal people' can integrate and learn from social media geek types keen to blog, film, tweet and share in a festival environment."

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Paul Bradshaw rounds up the journalism "unconference" he ran last week.