Year: 2007
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It’s a sunny day really
Last time it snowed there were loads of snowy pictures posted on the blogosphere so I decided to do something different this morning and put up the sunniest picture I could find… Image courtesy Dennis Flood
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Not often you see this…
Sometimes nature and man combine into something spectaular – this (here in all it’s glory) is absolutely stunning. People have gathered on a beach in Perth, Australia to watch a sky light up. On the left are fireworks in celebration of the recent Australia day, on the right the flashes of an approaching thunder storm…
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Which housepaint are you?
I’m conscious I’ve been a bit worthy on my last few posts so here’s a bit of idle fun. Over on Amelia’s blog she has just discovered here that she is Benjamin Moore “Royal Evening Baja Avocado” gloss interior acrylic latex. I, on the other hand, am Utrecht ‘Cadmium Orange’ acrylic (2oz tube), and I’m…
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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 world of increasingly scarce resource the only way we’ll be able to maintain…
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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 which more later, but just for a bit of fun and just to…
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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 stacking up on active stories. This one represents the diggs as they happen…
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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 fascinating exercise where he put up a series of mission statements where the…
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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 normal with energy efficient bulbs, and switch off unwanted lights. The Energy Savings…
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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 6 months) of the first internet wave all those years ago, there is…
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Mapping the internet (1)
In my new found mapping zeitgiest, here is a rather neat map of the current internet trends from the guys at Information Architects in Japan. The iA Trend Map shows all the big players and how they’re connected, and in their own words is ‘totally unscientific and almost useless, but definitely fun to look at.’…