The AND (Abandon Normal Devices) Festival kicks off this week across the North West. Organised by Folly, FACT and Cornerhouse, the line up looks amazing!  What better way to start than with a Tech Bus Tour???

Info on the bus trip is here: http://www.techbustours.com/and-festival/

Info on AND is here: http://www.andfestival.org.uk

Since the great feedback from Tech Bus Tours to b.TWEEN and Thinking Digital we've been inundated with requests for more Tech Bus Tours. Lots of people are having lots of great ideas about isung TBTs to enhance conferences, to network festivals, and generally to unite the creative technology scene in the UK.

As such we're making it real easy for more people to run Tech Bus Tours by offering core project support and promotion, whilst allowing you to decide the what, the where, the who etc... More info on hosting your own Tech Bus Tours is available here.

It's been a while since the Tech Bus to b.TWEEN and long over due for a blog post! One of the highlights was John McKerrell's Bus Information Screen, which enabled passengers to watch the hypnotic journey information - as if they were on an aircraft. John created this using data from his own mapme.at service which used a GPS device to track the location of the bus over time. Neat!

I'm so happy that our second Tech Bus Tour will be running from London to Liverpool for b.TWEEN on 10th June at FACT. The Tech Bus will welcome b.TWEEN speakers and instigators, participants and delegates and will run a one-way route from London to Liverpool. b.TWEEN is also hooking up with the folks at Being Digital to offer an amazing special ticket to Being Digital, to b.TWEEN and a Tech Bus ticket. More info on the Tech Bus Tour here.

OOH, Tech Bus Tours has been in the news!

http://www.ldpbusiness.co.uk/liverpool-news/liverpool-business-news/2009/05/14/magical-mystery-tech-bus-tour-rolls-into-liverpool-96026-23618794/

Thanks to Alistair Houghton over at http://twitter.com/ldpbusiness