In a short while I’ll be heading off to the launch of eTribes new – well, I’m not sure what it is – online publishing platform. The Independent recently described eTribes as a "British weblog and personal website company" and say their launch of a new photo album website is eminent, so that must be what this is all about. [see disclosure below] BBC 5Live’s Pods and Blogs has asked me (again!) to take along a microphone and mini-disc to get some interviews for their programme, something I started doing for them earlier this week when Nancy White came to town. I’ll let you know if the audio ever gets aired.
Ok, so that’s the boring stuff out of the way. The launch party is being held on the 34th floor of the BT Tower which used to house a revolving restaraunt which was open to the public until the IRA planted a bomb in the ceiling of the men’s toilet on Halloween day in 1971.
I used to work just around the corner from the BT Tower, in an office at 1 Mortimer Street, and often used the tower to find my bearings when I went out for a wander at lunch or an afterwork drink. Funny, the wikipedia entry for the tower says a lot of people do that…
I’ll post photos from the top to my flickr account.
[disclosure: When eTribes was an online community consultancy I did some for them. I haven’t accepted any sort of payment for this post, nor have I ever been invited to or asked to blog about the launch party or their new services.]
Have fun! I can’t look at that tower without envisioning a giant kitten hanging from it, ala the Goodies. :-)
Thanks Lynette! I did have a good time – despite the sudden feeling of vertigo as I first stepped out of the lift, I managed to have a bottle of Speckled Hen and got some good interviews for 5Live. I’ll let you know when the audio is broadcast. Oh, and at one point they started to rotate the floor. That part wasn’t very pleasant…