March 2008
37 posts
Welcome - HOPEREVO →
“This is the Hope Revolution. It began one evening when I decided to hide encouraging notes around New York City and inadvertently inspired other people who heard about it to do the same in their cities.”
The new dotcom boom - Times Online →
About 60 people are mixing, mingling and chatting in the fifth-floor cafe at Waterstone’s in Piccadilly. Coffee is fuelling an intense atmosphere of handshaking and exchanging of business cards. Most are male, under 40, wearing open-collared shirts, casual jackets and jeans. Several people have laptops open and sit rapt in front of screens, showing companions their web pages. Here is the Swedish...
Wake up and smell the new dotcom brew - Telegraph →
Web 2.0 is producing a new wave of entrepreneurs with London acting as the epicentre for most of the developments. Dominic White looks at who might be the leaders of the new generation At 10AM on Thursday morning the 5th View Bar in Waterstone’s flagship West End store was alive with activity. Two dozen would-be dotcom millionaires had gathered with laptops and...
Speechification: Charlotte Green giggles too →
Charlotte Green, in her wonderful newsreaders voice, (Radio 4 Today) reads a story about the first recording of a human voice (singing ‘Au Clair de la Lune’) and we are treated to a sample. The Guardian is carrying the news that her subsequent laughter may have been triggered by someone quietly telling her that the recording sounded like a “bee buzzing in a bottle”. The corpsing fit adds an...
Tom Watson MP » Blog Archive » UK net kids go... →
Barackobama.com was the 11th most visited site for UK Internet users in February. In September last year it was 172nd. During the week of super Tuesday his website had more visits than any of the major UK political party websites. Obama was the most searched for political figure in the UK, receiving three times as many searches as Hilary Clinton. That’s reach.
THE BEDINGFIELD SIBLINGS AUCTION PERSONAL ITEMS ON... →
Those Bedingfield siblings are a charitable pair. They’ve raided their wardrobes to offer their cast offs and their song-writing skills (which some might say are priceless) for sale on eBay, with all the proceeds going to charity. (Although perhaps Daniel is the biggest charity case in more desperate need of money at the moment). Daniel and Natasha have created perhaps the world’s...
MOO in slave labour shocker! - a photoset on... →
We all had to help to get the new MOO clicky slidey holders out.
What’s in a name? Only your best chance to win... →
If you are called Brian or Lisa and hungry for career success, one strategy could help you more than any other: change your name.
A study has suggested that while first names such as James and Elizabeth are strongly associated with success, others tend to be frowned upon when business is under discussion and snap judgments are being made.
The survey of perceptions among 6,500 respondents, which...
Porn Supremacy: Food photography →
The Ten Tastiest Food Photography Tips →
Food has an agenda. It wants you to eat it, and it wants you to eat it now. If you dilly-dally around Food, trying to photograph it instead of eating it, its defense mechanism kicks in. It immediately looks terrible in pictures, forcing you to give up, put down the camera, and eat the Food. Natural selection at work. The time has come to subvert Food’s Evil Agenda. Read our tips, take up your...
Outrage at Miss Bimbo website - Times Online →
A website that encourages girls as young as 9 to embrace plastic surgery and extreme dieting in the search for the perfect figure was condemned as lethal by parents’ groups and healthcare experts yesterday.
The Miss Bimbo internet game has attracted prepubescent girls who are told to buy their virtual characters breast enlargement surgery and to keep them “waif thin” with diet pills.
In the...
Google's Design Guidelines →
Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer for Google Apps, outlined some of the most important principles for designing interfaces at Google.
Tom Watson MP →
Labour MP who was one of the first UK politicians to have a blog.
BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a... →
Another version of Bookcrossing?
“Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not...”
– Online social networks | Everywhere and nowhere | Economist.com
Next Great Thing — Youth. Mobile. Trends. →
Home of the latest news, trends, and insights on all things youth and mobile.
Micro Persuasion: Three Internet Careers That Soon... →
The web has finally become the dominant marketing and media platform and where everyone is largely focusing their resources. It’s “the new normal.” To me, this means that there will be less of a need for digital specialists across many industries. Some of these jobs won’t exist in their current form within a couple of years. They will be integrated into broader roles....
Social Media: 'Agencies Don't Get It,' Survey Says →
Clients are placing more emphasis on mastering social media but find their agencies ill equipped to help them succeed in that space, according to a new survey. TNS Media Intelligence/Cymfony polled more than 60 marketers in North America, France and the U.K. to gauge how they are faring navigating the world of social media. It asked them for feedback on their agencies’ abilities to help....
Things I have learned in my life so far →
Nice inspiration quotes & accompanying stories
ContractStore Blog - Legal Business, Legal Tips,... →
Nice legal business blog from a neighbour & linkedin contact.
A quick chat with Lloyd Davis →
Rob’s video interview with Lloyd Davis - I like this as Lloyd seems sort of like a Brit Clay Shirky in the making - Clay Shirky said if you talk to someone long enough online you want to meet them. He was asked: “what social tools do you need to encourage this” - his reply “plane tickets & beer”
Springwise newsletter | 19 March 2008 →
As anyone with children is no doubt keenly aware, birthday parties can be extremely wasteful affairs, leaving in their wake heaps of disposable dishes and cutlery, bags of plastic packaging and torn wrapping paper, and an array of mediocre gifts the child could probably do without. ECHOage was recently founded by two mothers who were determined to come up with an alternative.
Clay Shirky's Internet Writings →
“ If I had to describe what I write about, it would be “Systems where vested interests lose out to innovation.” Or maybe “Systems where having good participants produces better results than having good planners.” I now recognize in my writings an interest in any systems undergoing an influx of new participants — the need to avoid mandated design...
Clay Shirky Video "Here Comes Everybody" →
Clay Shirky, author of the just released Here Comes Everybody, spoke at Harvard Law School’s Austin Hall
RSA - Lectures - Clay Shirky - Here Comes... →
Luckily I got a ticket in time
Clay Shirky’s lucid and penetrating analysis will steer us through the online social explosion and ask what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organisational structures. Clay Shirky is one of the new culture’s wisest observers. He will argue that the dramatic improvement in our social tools makes our control...
SimonWaldman.net» Blog Archive » On reading Clay... →
From the Guardian’s Simon Waldman
“It’s just a bullet point burst through what’s in my mind having just put the book down having galloped through it over the last 24 hours.
Institute of Contemporary Arts : Talks : Spatial... →
29 April 2008 Is there a politics of movement? If there is, how should the curator mediate the relationship between the human body, the art space and the physical dimensions occupied by the art object? Should the curator be responsible for the ergomomics of an exhibition? Should the curator be concerned with the physical experience of the audience at all?
Speakers: Dr Andrea Phillips, director,...
Institute of Contemporary Arts : Talks : Hi tech,... →
19 March 2008 - Why is there such a divisive split between art exhibitions and media art exhibitions? Should curators be more embracing of technologies? Is there good reason to be mistrustful of the use of technology in art and exhibition making?
Institute of Contemporary Arts : Talks : The News... →
7 April 2008 Gordon Burn’s new book, Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel, looks at how the news is constructed, and about how it has come to acquire the richness and strangeness of fiction. Tonight he discusses the collapsing barriers between what is real and what is invented with Duncan Campbell, senior correspondent at The Guardian and author of The Paradise...
Institute of Contemporary Arts : Talks : Robot... →
14 April 2008 David Levy, an expert on artificial intelligence, comes to the ICA to argue that we are headed inexorably towards a society where human affection and human desire are extended into psychological and physical relationships with robots.
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Brent Hoberman does it again!!
We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar →
An exploration of human emotion in six movements Interesting stuff in here - not sure what I think of it yet.
Some Blissful Ignorance Can Cure Chronic Buyer’s... →
“The Blissful Ignorance Effect,” says that buyers who have more ambiguous information about a product expect to be happier with their purchase than those who have more details.
Winners & Losers in a Troubled Economy →
Half day of practical tips, case studies and advice on how to use online customer engagement to build your business. Free launch event for ‘Winners and Losers in a Troubled Economy’ includes:
Multiple case studies illustrating important learnings on customer engagement
Top tips on how to survive and plan ahead for a troubled economy
Key ways to understand industry trends and use them for your...
Notes from Ged Carroll on Social Media & the Death... →