New york was the first of the 140 Characters conference and others are planned in both London and Los Angeles. Originally the event was to explore the effects of twitter on: Celebrity, “The Media”, Advertising and Politics”. These topics were covered, as well as many more. As ever many of the conversations happened outside the main auditoriums..

I was asked by The Open University in England to grab some interviews with the assistance of Matt (@Barnstormed) and in the corridor we caught up with Jeff and asked how the conference had come about..

This interview is also on the Open University’s You Tube Channel.

Moeed Ahmed is the Supervisor of Internet Media, New Media section with Aljazeera in Doha, Qatar. With the help of Matt (@Barnstormed), I managed to grab a few words with him at my hotel.

More information on Aljazeera can be found at http://www.aljazeera.net

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Here is one of the videos we shot that night.

On the 12th of February 2009 Twestival really grows up, as cities all around the world will be hosting their own Twestivals bringing together Twitter communities not just to party but this time to raise money and awareness for charity: water projects.

These Twestivals will be organized by volunteers and 100% of the money raised will go directly to support charity: water projects.

Why should you care..?

We are in the perfect position being the communicators we are, to blog, tweet and disseminate this kind of information all around the world. Raising awareness, money and assistance for whatever we can.

Whatever you use twitter for you have built connections and every node in those connections can possible help in some way. They just need to know to care and knowing you care helps that message along at lightning speed.

Charity: Water is a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations by funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.

At this moment in time 1.1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to safe, clean drinking water. That’s one in six of us.

Lets put our skills to good use and spread the word. I am sure we can all do good if we care to.

Even better than that.. donate some money..

More info at: http://www.charitywater.org/

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See you at @Twestival!!

I met up with Cyrille De Lasteyrye aka @VinVin at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas. We had an impromptu chat about Seesmic, video blogging and social media, captured on camera by Matt Rawlinson aka @barnstormed from the Open University in the UK.

There is much more New Media Expo content on the Phreadz Channel.

Seesmic is open to join but if you want an invite to Phreadz contact me through this site or my twitter page.

Thanks for watching..