It being a sunny bank holiday weekend, I spent my days working at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival, where lots of small screen luvvies get in a room and talk telly at each other. There was plenty of coverage of the festival from our media blog and from guru Kevin, who's been attending the accompanying Unfestival for the requisite geek quotient.
I spent the best part of Sunday with Vint Cerf, one of the "founding fathers of the internet" turned internet evangelist for Google - and the man who delivered the Alternative McTaggart Lecture (watch the videos on our YouTube page).
Over the course of several meetings during the day we discussed a wide range of topics including but not limited to: the future of the TV industry, internet censorship, the net in space, Google's plans for mobile phones, being chair of ICANN, where the internet is headed - oh, and what it is he actually does at Google and how he came to be there.
Yesterday we published a story following his speech to TV execs, but I'm just putting together the rest of the interview, which we'll run later in the week. Hopefully we'll be able to provide some audio and video as well.
(Picture of Vint Cerf by Joi Ito, released under CC license)
