To be entirely honest, not being an enthusiastic meeting hound, I often attend events out of duty rather than desire, coming away from events bored and frustrated: stupified rather than inspired. But last week I had the privilege to attend two genuinely inspirational events: the BBC’s Innovation Labs launch day in Edinburgh on Thursday and Barcamp Leeds 2007 on Saturday. By a strange coincidence, the Barcamp was in Old Broadcasting House which, when I was doing my PhD at Leeds University, was the home of the BBC in Leeds. The insipiration stretches to retrieving my blog from its virtual orphanage. I’m going to write about these two events in consecutive posts.