Today’s announcement of a new way of sponsoring me to go on the 7 Wonders in 7 Days trip is coming at you via an exciting new video I filmed yesterday at the Travelling Geeks event in London.

Organised by the smart teams at Firefly Communications and The Conversation Group and sponsored by Symbian Foundation, Intel, Nokia, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and many more, the Travelling Geeks are:

“an informal group of technology influencers and bloggers rooted chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area.  We’re traveling to London and Cambridge in July 2009 as part of Innovation UK. We like to report on innovative technologies through blogs, video, podcasts and social networks.”

Yesterday’s event was a belter!  I got to chat to lots of people about 7 Wonders in 7 Days and also managed to interview some very famous web people about the project.  Thank God for my Flip Mino HD camera.  Thing of beauty, that.

Here’s a 5 minute video interview with internet legend and genuinely lovely guy, Robert Scoble. Robert is @scobleizer on Twitter.

I first heard about Robert when he became Microsoft’s first blogger, quite a long time ago.  Since then he has become a web celebrity in his own right and is responsible for launching the careers of many, many now mainstream web start-ups.  Live-video streaming platform Qik, lifestreaming service Friendfeed and microblogging service du jour Twitter are just three of the social media tools he raved about in their early days.

Enough of my blathering.  Here’s the video.  Thanks again Robert.  You really made yesterday’s trip down to London worth it.  Thank you thank you thank you.

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I’ll be posting the video with Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist and also a very important web person shortly.  I’m about to start a training session and so can’t blog much longer!

I’ll be retrospectively adding links later, sorry!

UPDATE: Links added.  Here’s the interview with Craig Newmark. Typos fixed.