Month: December 2009
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Goodbye 2009
Christmas Day might be over but hey, it's still the festive season. I can't believe that in amongst all the awful agency christmas videos (why?) I missed this festive charmer from LBi. Fifty old agency cell phones upcycled to form an interactive art installation that you can play live. Lovely. Says its creator James Theophane:…
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Mag+
Below is a conceptual video (HT to Katy for the link) created by BERG London and the (Swedish publisher) Bonnier R & D team demonstrating a potential vision for digital magazines. I really like it. I like it because it strikes an excellent balance between attempting to capture some of the unique aspects that make…
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Data Activism And The Met Office Climate Change Data
After all the pre-Copenhagen nonsense surrounding the leaked e-mails and allegations of manipulated evidence supporting manmade global warming, the Met Office decided to publish some of the data it uses to analyse climate change. I hadn't seen it so I went looking for it and here it is. The data spans 200 years and…
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Post Of The Month – November ’09 – The Winner
Some spirited voting for both Danah Boyd's excellent talk on 'Streams Of Content, Limited Attention', and James Higgs' robust defence of the printed word this month but I'm delighted to announce that the winner of Post Of The Month for November '09 is James. Well done. You get the props of your blogging peers…
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Post Of The Month – November ’09 – The Vote
Thanks everyone for some excellent nominations this month. Couple of things: Michael – thanks for nominating Grant McCracken's post – I'm going to carry it forward to next month's vote as it was posted on Dec 1st (so just missed being included in this one). And Helge – thanks very much for nominating one of…
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Post Of The Month – Nov ’09 – Nominations
OK, time to nominate any good posts that you've read that were posted in the month of November – lots of good reading to be had again this month. I've listed my starting five nominations below – please add to them in the comments and I'll stick them all up for a vote in…