Eating Albion

• Got an interest in food and blogging?

• Know clever things about the web, quality editorial, local foods, google maps and stuff?

• Want a free tour of Channel 4’s landmark building and a free beer or two?

This is a sort of open invitation to Chris Heathcote, James Bridle, Seb, (all suggested by Russell, who’s also very welcome to attend) Silverbrow, Chris, Toby, Dan (if he wants to come down to London) and any other food geeks who’d like to to come to Channel 4 and have a look at what we’re doing for when Eating Albion is reborn on to Channel4.com.

Obviously you need an interest some of the following: food, blogging, user-generated stuff, Google API, local produce, maps, etc. Present from C4 will be me, Catherine, Andy Pipes and Hannah. The agenda is pretty loose, but I’ll start by opening the beers and explaining a bit about the history of the idea and where we’re up to now, before hopefully having a lively discussion about it. There’s not a huge number of technical things we can add or develop, so this is more about how we harness the editorial and tech together to create something interesting and worthwhile that lasts beyond the seven-month first phase of this project. We think we’ve a good idea of how that will work, but we’d like to hear what you’ve got to say.

The suggested time and date for this shindig is:

5-7pm (or should we make it 6-8pm?)

on any of the following…

Thursday 27th March
Friday 28th March
Tuesday 1st April
Wednesday 2nd April

@ Channel 4, 124 Horseferry Road

To those name-checked above, please use the comments below or mail me to let me know if you can make it so I can get the best date to suit everyone. To any other interested folk who’d like to attend, mail me a link to your blog so I know you know what you’re talking about. We can only really accommodate 15 on top of the C4 people tops.

My email address is eyedropper .at. mac .dot. com.

Afterward I’ll take you on a tour of the C4 building, including a view of the glass phallus, and then maybe a snifter in the pub for those who want to carry on.

PS: I hope this open invite on the internet doesn’t turn into this. It’d be hard explaining to Uncle Andy why 200+ food bloggers smashed up his lovely TV head offices. Arf!