I’m going to carry on as if I haven’t missed NINE MONTHS of weeknotes, and do weeks 70 and 71 together as they were both good.

The week before last (70) was Internet Week 2011. Meaning everyone was allowed to use the internet all week with no penalties, and other time-limited-internet-related jokes. 2010 was its inaugural year in London/Europe, and we took part again this year with a couple of events at Hill’s Place. Last year we held a kind of open spaceship each morning for people to come and say hi and drink tea as we were pretty new.

This time we wanted to do something more practical, so we hosted two creative workshops: Making and The Electric City. Friend and conspirator extraordinaire Matt Ward helped us with the first session, and ran two or so hours of lots of drawing and some prototyping techniques to get to future magic machines of various kinds. With Electric City we looked at communications in cities and how these could be more meaningful, magical and apt, based on a concept devised by Matt Cottam and Maia Garau for our session at Picnic this year, and on some of the thinking that’s come from our project with Urbanscale.

Also in Week 70, Margot, Greg, Simon and Tom slept in the city’s great outdoors for Centrepoint’s Sleepout at Exchange Square. With Richard Madeley (amongst others. I hope), who apparently is well perky in the mornings, and in fact all the time. I think you can still donate here if you fancy.

And Max and Chris went to New York to join our Dentsujin cousins there for what sounded like a brilliant day of invention and more workshopping.

Last week (71), was the beginning of interviewing for a new strategist, some new business meetings, some of which are looking like exciting prospects, the start of a new film project for a new client (more on that soon), R&D for an over-adventurous Christmas project involving quite a lot of soldering from Chris, and a lot of creative development on Canon.

Whilst the idea was to avoid dwelling on weeknote tardiness, I will say counting the weeks is a funny thing: having missed a good few, 72 weeks still sounds like kind of a low number in total. (Although really it’s 78, as we started on -5 counting down to 0). That’s around 350 days in business, or 18 months, since we moved into Hill’s Place and opened our doors last April. Which is a lot and a little, has gone incredibly fast, and has been full of brilliant stuff. I can feel a year note brewing.