Year: 2009

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    Bubble Battle

    This is lovely idea. A giant bubble battle in Times Square, organised by Newmindspace. Bringing people together and giving them something to do. Here's the Flickr pool to last year's event. And a nice video below. If you happen to be in NYC, this year's bubble battle takes place in Times Square on Saturday 21st…

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    Think Tank – May ’09 – The Winner

    Ahem. Poll Authority appears to have crashed half way through the vote for Post of the Month and has been borked for the past 24 hours. Fortunately I'd seen where the results were standing just before it went down, and there was a clear leader at the time so I propose to cut the vote…

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    Think Tank – May ’09 – The Vote

    OK. The vote is open for Post of the Month. A shorter short-list this month – thanks to James, Tim and Steve for the nominations (though sorry Steve, I couldn't use yours as it didn't point to a single post or series of posts). So please help spread the word that voting is underway, and…

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    Three Wolf Moon

    Thanks to Jaime for pointing me at this hilarious story from the BBC. The Three Wolf Moon T-shirt has become the top selling fashion item on Amazon.com, increasing sales by 2300% after a series of ironic customer reviews 'went viral'. The first review (five stars of-course) said it "Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on…

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    Sorry I’m Late

    Some stop motion goodness, this one shot with a stills camera in the ceiling pointing straight at the floor. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4862670&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Sorry I'm Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

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    Think Tank Nominations – May ’09

    Nominations are now open for Post of the Month for May, so think on any good posts you've read that were published in that month and please nominate them by leaving a link in the comments to this post. As a starter, I've listed four of my own favourites below (including a nomination for Simon's…

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    Data And Seduction

    Image courtesy (HT) Two posts in a row about data. I'm definitely finding my inner geek here ;-). As the sophistication of our use of data improves, so the interplay between the art and the science involved with the whole business of content production and consumption, advertising, marketing and design becomes more interesting. They seem…

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    Data And Discovery

    Image courtesy One of the happy corollaries of starting to do more running has been the other runners that I have connected with online. Thinking back, it wasn't as a result of a deliberate effort , it just kinda happened. I'm not a serious runner, nor a running blogger, so I guess I'm somewhere in…

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    Credit Crunch

    Designer Stefan Sagmeister tells a story as part of his strangely wonderful 'Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far' about a commission he was once given by a magazine editor. Given no brief and a long deadline, the unlimited freedom becomes something of a curse, until he rereads his diary and picks out…

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    Making Money From Social

    I have a bit of a beef about this. I must have read a hundred posts on this subject, many of them attempting to define an elusive 'social media model'. I'm not convinced that this is the right place to start. Social media is not a channel. Nor is it a tactic. There is no…

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