Barcamp Ghent: my 24 hours off the grid

Yesterday I attended another inspiring edition of Barcamp Ghent. Thank you IBBT and One Agency for making this happen!
29 November was also No Blog Day, in memory of the victims of the Mumbai terrorist attack. There are two things about this protest action:

1. The role Twitter reporting has played in this attack reminds me of the role blogs played during 9/11, when the mainstream media were unable to feed the hungry-for-news crowd.
2. It's really weird to ask people *not* to blog. There's no way you can measure the effect of your appeal afterwards.

But the No Blog Day inspired me to start a No Gizmo Day on the 29th. Bart De Waele uploaded a video of me explaining (in Dutch) how I planned to replace every electronic gadget in my daily life with something analog. I had some really poetic ideas, like replacing Twitter by origami crane birds (just like Sadako Sasaki's) with messages written on them, but completely forgot about them during Barcamp. I also replaced my Nokia Supernova by a Lomography fish eye camera to make unflattering portraits of the other bloggers but forgot to take off the cap a number of times. But to be honest I felt really miserable, uncomfortable, powerless and nervous without my gadgets. The only high point was when I could force the audience to replace my ipod. Watch the video to see what happened next.