Year: 2009
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The Goatee Saver
Ash kindly pointed me at this priceless post over on John Dodds’ blog. Something for all those dodgy goatee wearers out there. Cursing the fact that christmas has just been and gone…
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This Is Japan
There's a million and one ways now in which people can construct their own narratives. Here's a rather charming example featuring the story of a trip to Japan: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2721992&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1This is Japan! from Eric Testroete on Vimeo. If you're interested, there's a rather neat tool called Animoto that you can use to create something very similar.HT…
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Come On BBC
I'm sorry, but the decision by the BBC not to broadcast the appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee to help relieve the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unbelievable. After an 18 month blockade and three weeks of heavy shelling, 1.1 million people are now dependent upon aid to survive, around 500,000 people are without…
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A Bridge Too Far
Amongst all the precitions for 2009 there was not a lot of positivity for media. In fact, if you believe what seems to be the common theme amongst many of them, 2009 is going to be a world of pain. Newspapers are at the sharp end, facing the perfect storm of a cyclical decline in…
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Flying Over Britain, Looking For Love
I love a good data visualisation. At the end of last year, Flowing Data published a list of the 5 best data visualisations of 2008, featuring a couple that I hadn't seen before but which are quite exceptional, so are worth posting: 1. This short film, from the BBC's Britain From Above series, visualises the…
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The Herbie Flowers Argument
Image courtesy There's a school of opinion, supported by the kind of research that Will has quoted above, that suggests that the best ideas are the product of individual inspiration rather than group effort. The opposing sides of this debate were played out on a recent WORD magazine podcast, but discussed first by Elvis Costello…
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Swimming Naked
"As house prices fall, a huge amount of financial folly is being exposed. You only learn who has been swimming naked when the tide goes out – and what we are witnessing at some of our largest financial institutions is an ugly sight." Warren Buffett The scarcity that has characterised this financial meltdown, perhaps more…
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I Got Soul, But I’m Not A Soldier
Wonderfully charming short film made by Kiva fellow Kieran Ball following the path of a $25 loan from London to Preak Tamao village, Cambodia. Kiva.org is quite possibly the most inspiring thing to have come out of the explosion in social technologies, and this film says it all. As Kieran says, "everybody deserves opportunities, but…