Month: March 2011
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You Are Listening To…
I'm rather loving YouAreListening.to, a simple mashup by Eric Eberhardt evoking four different cities: New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Montreal. Each one features an image of the city from Flickr, a local Police Department Radio Stream via Radioreference, with an audio […]
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When I Grow Up
I guess it's no big surprise that in a (US) survey of over 10,000 young professionals Google came out as the company that most would like to work at. And by some margin, with nearly a quarter of survey respondents selecting them, almost […]
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Visual Budget
"How do we fix our National Budget Deficit and Debt? Help us build a website that helps America explore the answers to build our future." I love this project on Kickstarter. Visual Budget is an extraordinary data visualisation project that is […]
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Something To Remember
When asked "What thing about humanity surprises you the most?", the Dalai Lama answered: "Man…. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future […]
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The Shamrock Organisation (Redux)
Charles Handy, Irish philosopher, management thinker and writer, first coined the phrase The Shamrock Organisation in the late 80's to describe an organisational structure with three distinct parts: The 'core staff', likely to be experienced or highly trained professionals, essential to continuity and maintaining detailed […]
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All The Information In The World
I sometimes think that one of the most fundamental issues that content producers (of any kind) consistently fail to get their heads around is just what they are competing against in the new world. As Kevin Kelly said all the way back […]
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Social Paintings
Courtesy of the Bad Banana blog I came across the remarkable work of Enda O’Donoghue, an Irish artist living in Berlin who's work is influenced by his background as a computer programmer and web developer. Enda scours social networks and blogs looking for "the […]
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Google Firestarters
So, some exciting news. I'm working with Google in the UK (full disclosure: they are a client of mine) to curate a series of events to provide some stimulating thinking and discussion around some of the more interesting and challenging issues facing planners […]
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Mondo Window
Gosh. Stamen Design, all-round-awesome data visualisers (and creators of one of my favourites – the lovely MTV VMA twitter traffic visualisation) have been working away with the people at Mondo Window to create the first site designed specifically for use with in-flight […]