Month: March 2007
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One less car
I saw a bike rider wearing a flourescent jacket with this written on the back this morning. And I rather liked its simple but effective communication, even though my mountain bike is currently collecting cobwebs in the garden shed. The medium really
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Ten up
Useful chart on the first decade of internet ad growth courtesy of Paul Kedrosky’s blog . Also available on flickr here. Strictly speaking, as Tim O’Reilly points out in a comment on the post, the first internet ads appeared (via him) in
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Drunk monkeys and the NME Awards
Another heads up for Dead Fish readers…the NME awards have just taken place (follow the link for write up and lots of good stuff). Muse won best band, Arctic Monkeys best album, My Chemical Romance and Jamie T also took honours, Primal
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Spooky
Just had a comment left on my recent post about the re-emergence of Boo.com (the URL that spawned one of the fastest crash and burns in web history) from ‘insider@boo.com’. It reads… ‘Ever heard of the “wisdom of the crowd”?Do you trust
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Riverdance like you’ve never seen it before
You will no doubt see this a lot over the coming days but here is the very funny Comic Relief viral video for Red Nose Day . It’s promoting the RND T-Shirts which are only onsale at TK Maxx . Nice piece
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The BBC, Web 3.0, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G
Hot on the heels of their You Tube deal, the Beeb have announced a ‘Web 3.0’ deal with IBM. I’m already getting a little irked by the ‘Web 3.0’ thing, but you know that when the mighty BBC get behind an idea
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How Napoleon inspired the computer
Ever wondered whether it is possible to link all knowledge? It’s more than a little ambitious, but if you could, just think what you could do to construct interesting narratives for brands, particularly if it’s all about the stories we tell. The
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Face2Face
As picked up by PFSK. Face2Face is a project designed to bring a better understanding between Israelis and Palestians by highlighting the similarities between the people on either side of the separation wall. Massive images of Israeli and Palestinian people who do
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10 reasons why Web 2.0 is Marxist
Sort of. 1. It’s classless. Marx believed that the main characteristic of life in a class society is alienation. Web 2.0 connects and networks people. It knows no social or class boundaries. 2. It’s stateless. Web 2.0 is not restricted by geographic