November 2009
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WatchVery nice. Fresh and simple is this video for the single “General Motors, Detroit, America” by Record Makers’ latest signing, Acid Washed. The video was created by Anthony Burrill.
The journalist's new research tool. Twitter. →
The journalist’s new research tool. Twitter.
Let them sing for you! →
Write some words and the machine pulls in each one from a song and sort of mash-up-sings back to you. Funny!
(found at rubbishcorp)
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iPhone Apps Put Brands in Hands →
Here is a list of the successful brands and apps that best fulfill the promise of utility — as well as some prominent missed opportunities
- By Brian Morrissey Adweek
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“By and large, most of us are still having the conversation about how we create...”
– Tear down this wall! Crowdsourcing comes of age « Made by Many
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New inspiring blog: Elastika →
Welcome. This is Elastika.
It’s about sharing what inspires you, the cutting edge and the classic, the new and the rediscovered. It’s about love and admiration of well designed things. It’s all about the best. Text is secondary. The images speak for themselves.
Adaptability is an ancestral distinction of human intelligence, but today’s instant variations in rhythm call for something stronger:...
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Portfolio | Patricia Thompson Photography →
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“As readers, we consume. As authors, we create. Our society is changing from...”
– A Writing Revolution
by Denis G. Pelli & Charles Bigelow, SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
NESTA - Social media with Stephen Fry →
Stephen Fry, actor, journalist and celebrity ‘Tweeter’ and self-confessed technophile; Biz Stone, Founder and Chief Executive of Twitter; and Reid Hoffman, Founder and Chief Executive of LinkedIn…
The Frontal Cortex →
Jonah Lehrer is a contributing editor at Wired. He’s also written for The New Yorker, Seed, Nature, the Boston Globe and is a contributor to Radio Lab. He’s the author of Proust Was A Neuroscientist….
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“We grew up on these sites, far before they became the trendy places to “reach...”
– A/S/L « Our American Shelf Life
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“The paradox of the new media’s impact on our socialization lies in the fact that...”
– We Are United in Our Digital Isolation by Emily F. Popek
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Shaun Bloodworth Photographer →
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N / S / E / W Photographic and musical document.
North/South/East/West is a new project from photographer Shaun Bloodworth, designer Stuart Hammersley and Bleep.com. A photographic and musical document focusing on the music of four different regions of the world — North and South UK and East and West coast USA. The project aims to showcase our pick of a handful of labels, artists and club...
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Amazing open source identity by Karsten Schmidt.
The Victoria and Albert Museum has commissioned the artist Karsten Schmidt to design a truly malleable, digital identity for the Decode exhibition by providing it as open source code. “We are giving you the opportunity to recode Karsten’s work and create your own original artwork. If we love your work it might even become the new...
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Avatar Interactive Trailer
The Official Avatar Interactive Trailer is an AIR app that brings Avatar’s Pandora natives directly to your desktop. The tech contains all of the so-far-released Avatar trailers as well as dozens of video shorts that go ‘deep’ on the making of the movie and main characters. As you watch a trailer, “hotspots” pop-up and introduce more info about the characters. On top of that the thing is ‘live’,...
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Victor Vroegindeweij →
ChangeThis :: ChangeThis →
ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.
ChangeThis :: Meaningful Digital Strategy: The... →
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WatchFun IKEA campaign using Facebook phototagging.
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Meaningful Digital Strategy: The Next Evolution of...
Manifesto by Bob Gilbreath On ChangeThis:
“Four years ago, I grew frustrated with the lack of brand investment in digital marketing and set out to understand the fundamental reasons why this promising new space was still only attracting a small sliver of marketers’ multi-million-dollar budgets. I discovered that the issue was bigger than tiny click-thru rates and cautious organizations....
Radical Friend 08 →
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WatchYeasayer: Ambling Alp. Directed by Radical Friend. Also check out the site >
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ORANGEBAG →
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cluetrain manifesto - chapter one →
The Longest Poem in the World →
The Longest Poem in the World” is composed by aggregating real-time
public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme.
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From 'The Cluetrain Manifesto' ('99) by...
The Net grew and prospered largely because it was ignored. It worked by different rules than the rules of business. Market penetration wasn’t interesting because there was no market — unless it was a market for new ideas. The Net was built by people who said things like: What if we try this? Nope. What if we try that? Nope. What if we try this other thing? Well, hot damn! Look at that!
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The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that... →
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“As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not...”
– Nicholas Carr; Is Google Making Us Stupid?
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“For humans, this desire to search is not just about fulfilling our physical...”
– Emily Yoffe; The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting.
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“Billions of people are rapidly becoming more knowledgeable and better connected...”
– Tyler Cowen on Fast Company
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