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Okay. It isn’t Friday. Let’s not let that spoil the spirit of the thing…

The Expo’s over, leaving behind an Internet littered with #w2eb, #web20expoEU and variations thereof. To future attendees looking back, or even present ones still trying to stop their heads from spinning so fast, it can be quite hard to figure out exactly what happened. So without further ado, some aggregated links to help serve as a reminder:

• Official site – a decent hub to everything else.
• SixGroups aggregate site – Fairly hard to navigate overall, but was excellent ‘livestreaming’ tag aggregation during the event.
• Presentation files both on the official site and slideshare.
• Tweets about the expo (#w2eb was the main hashtag I saw in use).
• Couple of good blogs covering the expo, far more thorough than I: BerlinBlase, One Man & His Blog. Not to mention the TC LateCrunch and Pitch wrapups.
• Flickr photos matching: web2expoEU, w2eb. Plus there’s some video scattered about; try Documentally on Qik.
• Last but not least! Everything I’ve written about it. There’s more to come in the form of column pieces, of course.

This Linkfest will likely be updated as I travel around the web, but feel free to let me know about anything really obvious I’ve missed, while I mutter to myself about the information-filtering problem this event itself encompasses.

Every Friday, Linkfest brings you a collection of useful sites on a topic I know very little about (until I visited the links, anyway…). This week: cookery!

My new flatmate is a recent graduate, and it shows. His shelves are full of dried pasta, tinned beans, tuna cans and cereal; every meal he prepares has ’student’ written right through it, and it’s clear he’s not quite out of the live-for-a-week-on-a-tenner mindset. When you’ve got some time in the evening to (you’re not going to the pub right after dinner) and the money to invest a little in good staples (your housemates won’t steal them), what excuse is there not to learn to cook?

So, without further ado, some links for anyone in the same boat:

• Ask Metafilter: What’s your most useful general advice on cooking? (wise words from the hive)
• Ask Metafilter: How do I grocery shop and cook? (shopping’s just as important)
  
• Edinburgh School of Food and Wine (cookery courses)
• How to Cook without a Book (ironically, it’s a book)
• Abel & Cole (yummy organic food delivered, and plenty of recipes)
• BBC iPlayer: Food and Drink (you’d be surprised how much you can learn from TV)
• RecipeMatcher (enter what you have, and it shows you matches; or simply google a few ingredients + ‘recipes’)
• Cooking Guide [DS] (make cookery a game)
• Cheap as Chips, Better than Toast (a transition from student cooking to more ‘real’ cooking)

A wide variety of information that has left me, for one, more educated in the culinary arts. (And hungry!)