chicago airport.

gotta have breakfast. tried to fight it.

another $10 but it is breakfast tacos and they do look fantastic so i'll give that a pass and that yogurt i bought last night was simply not enough. word of the moment has to be patience.

this is a country hyped up on delivery, speed and timing. and patience is replaced with annoyance easily. that said, the one thing i like about america as a tourist is that we feel like royalty because the level of service is light years ahead of us back home.

in fact, i sometimes wonder if we are going backwards - it totally makes sense why things like gowalla and foursquare, facebook places loyalty rewards, groupon work here more so than the uk.

we need to know what service and loyalty looks like on a daily basis before we can start to reproduce that in the digital realm - of course do not get me wrong here we have some fantastic eating and food places in nottingham that understand that service (antenna springs to mind) but they are rare - even antenna could do to progress into exploring loyalty for it's members for it to succeed in the year to come.

and what's the deal with wifi still after all these years in the states? - is it that they are locked down by the airport by people like boingo being the exclusive provider? - they should look at speaking to a bunch of restaurants to give their clients 15 minutes to check in with gowalla and other applications so they can track customers, give loyalty and provide that stop of connection point.

pumped up for this roadtrip, discussing a bunch of topics (especially in my mind about consumption and weather conditions, storms ) about money, rebuilding and re-construction and rebuilding.

it's also for me the only way to really make a point about this - we are a global community, we have a cause and effect on every human being on this planet. what we do everyday echoes into our human eternity.

helping to tidy, move stuff. arrange things, communicate the frustration, pain and attitude on the ground of how 'a person deals' with an event like this i think is important to not just COVER the situation on the ground but capture - to make an informed multi level piece with audio, video and pictures - stories resonate with people.

if they are focused and packaged in the right way it can become an archive to look back on. that's my aim. rewiring, rewriting and addressing the balance of what my everyday life can be a tough challenge because we need transport, food and housing - all of those i'm looking at and making those little micro adjustments bit by bit and documenting that discovery as i do.

it's darn hot outside.

quicklink | the 'imwithphil.com' room

if your following me on facebook then i can invite you to the room - basically it's a shared space on the web where you can play your music (either upload or search via their system) to a group of others and get some feedback about your music while being able to chat.  you get points if people like the stuff your spinning.  i started using it over itunes almost the other day before i had to head out to do some jobs (it can be a timesuck!) around nottingham.

we will be using this (as long as the mifi can cope with it) on the ipad while we are roadtripping across from tampa to phil campbell, alabama from monday (12th) onwards - do drop into the room as we go totally roadtrip mobile with this and test that experience out.  we will also have live video streams running from the car although it might only be one stream because i'm pretty sure it will barf with two streams running.  all new testing grounds to see what can be done from on the road.

we already did a test run of this with 100milestories.com in march so it should be ok.

quicklink | rob.fibreca.mp | rss

a funny interview with @robwilmot of bcs digital and @donturner of new startup company chonk introducing their first application out on the blackberry store called musicroom - a streaming music application for the blackberry platform.

MusicRoom is an app that allows you to stream your music collection from your PC to your BlackBerry.  It uses your wireless network so you can play your music wherever you are in the house! :)

vip access thanks to seedups.

as part of my walking the trade floor at southby i bumped into a guy that was talking about seedups - a new private investor service that had started a few weeks before in ireland.

with all the things going on in ireland it surprised me that investors or seed capital was floating around from private investors in some ways but i guess you want investors that are smart enough to have made money to be able to fund other projects.

i did an elevator pitch, recorded a video and filled in a form - they were looking for thirty interviews of the few days they were there and i believe they are going on the website.  i need to go and check to see if they are up or not yet.

bonus side was having a vip ticket to get me plus one into the british music embassy at latitude 30 for the evening.  i got to see a variety of bands but the ones that really stood out were the lost brothers.

they have an album on itunes that seems to have been released some time ago.  i'm not sure if they have a new album out or not but they played a few tracks from their previous i believe.

great three piece band and really tight sound.  really liked them a lot even if the system they were playing on needed a bit of setting up - find them out on itunes!

quicklink | lindaharrison

i have an internet crush on linda.  there said it.

it was great that she was in austin for southby for the first time this year but the problem was i never had the time to spend with her because i was heading out of town literally straight after i did this interview - that was a shame.  i would have loved to have hung out to get more of the backstory about linda and her music and the covers that she does on bambuser.

the fact that i was uber poor would not have helped.  i do hope that linda will pop along to the nottingham studio at fibrecamp and do some acoustic sets for us on some nice quality HD streaming to bambuser sometime.

if your still in southby for music/film do drop her a tweet and grab an interview - she has a great story i'm sure.