{"id":954,"date":"2004-03-11T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2010-05-05T22:31:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T21:31:53","slug":"954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/954\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerpoint-tastic in the BT Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Powerpoint-tastic!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pie charts! Flow charts! Statistics! Strap lines! Lots of blokes in suits!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.com\/images\/talk.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep, I&#8217;m at an industry presentation and the air is alive with buzz words.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re talking &#8216;convergence&#8217;, &#8217;empowerment&#8217;, &#8216;communications paradigm&#8217;,&#8217;vibrant choice&#8217;, &#8216;synergies&#8217;, &#8216;integrated marketplaces&#8217;, &#8216;call stimulation effect&#8217;,  &#8216;intuitive possibilities&#8217;,  &#8216;monetised content&#8217;, &#8216;revolutionary platforms&#8221; and &#8216;focused multimedia strategies&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>What does it all mean? Who knows! So why am I here? That&#8217;s easy &#8211; the conference is taking place in the BT Tower &#8211; a building I&#8217;ve been trying to get inside for years!<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m enjoying some top quality, freebie posh food in the revolving restaurant on the 34th floor. Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.com\/images\/bt.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Both pics taken with the built in camera on my Sony Clie  NX70V palm pilot)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerpoint-tastic! Pie charts! Flow charts! Statistics! Strap lines! Lots of blokes in suits! Yep, I&#8217;m at an industry presentation and the air is alive with buzz words. We&#8217;re talking &#8216;convergence&#8217;, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-bt-tower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/talk.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-954","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}