We worked at Teatime4change on June 9th 2011. Above are a few pictures from our interaction with the many people we met there while we were drawing the day.

Drawnalism at Social media Week London 2011 Image © AlexDigirati

We made our Social Media Week London debut last week when we drew at a session on content creation organised by Waves PR and Nemisys.

We worked in snappy fifteen minute sessions where we drew against the clock to capture snippets of information from the impressive roster of speakers.

You can catch the full details of the event from the WavesPR and Nemisys/IPadio’s blog posts which are are linked here and here.

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We like the way this technology is developing because of the possibilities for interactive, narrative journalism and story-telling using hand control. The secret as we have written before lies in this interface between human and tool. The more natural the control systems the better the possibilities for communication – and so, for drawnalism.

We recently attended the news:rewired conference organised by Journalism.co.uk and held at City University in London. Above is a short interactive with an analysis of the key speakers from the event and some of their behaviour on Twitter.

At the heart of the Apple Computer iPad is one rather important thing – the way human beings interact with technology. On the whole, Drawnalism thinks that anything which brings a closer connection between our senses and what we can do with them through technology is worth investigating. (Yes, we watched Minority Report too.) We thought the following video was worth watching as well, mainly as an example of how touch control is going to offer us a rather better interface to technology. Especially, if you make things with your hands.

10/GUI from C. Miller at Vimeo.

If you are interested in a.nother article on the Apple machine, we think @psmith‘s round up piece for Journalism.co.uk is as good as we have seen.

Updated: Monday Feb 1st. Drawnalist opinions of the launched object are largely positive. We like larger displays for supply of information and design, but like all new creative devices the iPad is going to need time to develop and show its strengths. We also look forward to a version with a sharp, pointy stick facility for those of us who like them. Yes, we are looking at you Wacom.

NewsRewired – the event for those interested in making the news – had some breaking stuff all of its own last week.

During his panel session in front of more than 100 delegates, Greg Hadfield, one of the UK’s more conspicuously successful journalists and business people announced a change of job.

He explained his move from the Daily Telegraph to digital firm Cogapp as the result of a refusal to wait any longer for institutional journalism to catch up with the opportunities of digital.

Drawnalism taken at the conference. Drawnalism’s final post on the event will be posted later this week.

Updated 19th Jan 2010: Greg Hadfield has written for the Media Guardian repeating his words from the #newsrw event.

#newsrw Journalism and news:rewired Image from Drawnalism

Click the picture for a small gallery of drawing from the news:rewired event which was held at City University, London on 14th Jan 2010. You can follow the online buzz about the event here and find some less urgent and more reflective journalism about it at the site of the event’s organisers, Journalism.co.uk.

If anyone who attended the day would like to nominate tweets or comments from speakers and participants at #newsrw please put them in the comments below and we’ll make a new version of the image above.