Month: August 2008
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Obama Speech On Wordle
This is Barack Obama’s address to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver on Wordle. Interesting the perspective this gives it – notably the prominence of words like "work", "time", "keep" and of-course the biggest word of all…"promise".
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The Chaos Of The Exceptional
Fail faster, fail harder. We all know how important a culture of experimentation is to business now. And how difficult it is to be certain of anything in a rapidly changing environment where the old rules no longer apply. And how important […]
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Redefining Media, Redefining Advertising
Four quotes from things I’ve read in the last 24 hours that I think quite neatly sum up the required redefinition of both media and advertising: A quote from Jeff Jarvis that features in this presentation on the new relationship between media […]
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New Arrivals
Two new chickens have arrived at Dead Fish HQ. Lucy, who is a Maran hen: …and Charlie (short for Charlotte), who is a hybrid (and a little camera shy): And somehow we managed to come back from the chicken man with another […]
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Chaos Theory
So, I'm back after a blustery, rain swept but fun couple of weeks. Whilst I was away, I happened to read a great little story that featured in this article about why some complex systems perform better without human intervention: "Back in […]
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Gone Fishing
OK. I’m going to be taking a well-deserved break for a couple of weeks. To keep you entertained, Dead Fish is providing some tunes courtesy of Mixwit and the good old fashioned mix-tape. These are some of my favourite sounds of the […]
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Free Shirt
Marvellous news. After I responded to his What Not To Wear post by saying that I actually quite liked the shirt he was offering up as his wardrobe nightmare, Rob left me a comment: "You should know that after your comment on […]
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Web Without Sense
This is very funny. And it happened to brighten up a late-working session no end 🙂 "Essentially a blog, it is a gallery of common place website design/layout/marketing/general annoyances on the Internet. Equally, it is satirical dialogue aimed to get a message […]
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Dodgy Goatee
A collection of the images that come up if you type in ‘dodgy goatee’ to Google images. So proud.
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Fishmobile
Natty little application I came across over on Dave’s blog – a service called MoFuse which allows you to instantly create a mobile site for your blog. Go here, type in your URL, personalise it, and away you go. If your so […]