Month: February 2007

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    Rebranding rubbish

    Thanks to the Henley Centre Headlight Vision which put me onto Cradle to Cradle, a new book by Michael Braungart and William McDonough which has an interesting take on sustainability. Their argument (printed on recyclable plastic no less) is that in a

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    Mapping the universe (2)

    I’ve posted a few times about maps. With ubiquity of information, choice and content I believe that alongside search, dynamic maps of all kinds will be increasingly important tools to help consumers navigate, understand and differentiate. There’s a big subject here, of

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    Mapping the internet (2)

    Digg have developed a dynamic mapping tool which tracks conversations as they happen across the internet, live. It’s fascinating and slightly addictive to watch. This one represents how many diggs are being recorded as a stack, showing diggers falling from above and

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    When less really is more

    David over at Logic + Emotion has just posted on saying more with less which reminded me of a talk I once saw on the same subject by Marcus Child . He used an example of company mission statements and conducted a

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    Green Floyd

    Everything really is going green. Just to show how hip this message is, here is the video for the Eric Prydz vs Floyd single. Great shots of kids bmx-ing and street-jumping their way around an estate in a valiant effort to replace

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    Boo Hoo 2?

    Over at two point oh (a blog from Paul, a techy publisher colleague of mine) there is some quite ominous news. He’s noticed that at Boo.com – the URL that spawned perhaps the most famous crash (and certainly the fastest burn…$120m in

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