Consider this the "Off Broadway" or Fringe Festival of MWC, where you get to actually talk about the real issues in the mobile startup ecosystem in a lively debate format.
Within the RGS Markham was responsible for the revision of the Society's standard Hints to Travellers, and for relaunching the journal Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society in a much livelier format.
By presenting the interviews in a lively question-and-answer format, Mr. Schwager not only gave readers insight into the traders' techniques, but also provided a glimpse, through verbatim musings, of how the traders' minds worked.
"We can tell you the aggregated sentiment the 'buzz' about a local restaurant or event," he explains, "We can pull all the information together and present insights in a lively, single-page, graphical format".
BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw said it was a "lively new format".
Indeed, there are numerous ways of putting this key skill back into the classroom in a lively and motivating manner, not least the selection of relevant and entertaining source material in audio and video formats as well as in writing, the use of back translation, translation chains, language transfer and decoding games as well as the exploration of existing bilingual texts.
This is being debated in a lively way.
In a lively exchange over what has come to be referred to as "the Chinese room argument", John Searle sought to refute the claim of proponents of what he calls "strong artificial intelligence (AI)" that a computer program can be conscious, though he does agree with advocates of "weak AI" that computer programs can be formatted to "simulate" conscious states.
Panelists read from the Consensus Statement and answered questions from the audience in a lively session.
On the bright side, the authors write in a lively, engaging style, especially in the background section.
