April 2008
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miss-r: Off to the Future Summit of Journalism today. I’ll be taking my laptop and may live blog if there’s free wireless available - but this is Sydney, not SXSW, so don’t hold your breath. I would love to hear what’s going on there Miss R, please post if possible!
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“If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social...”
– Clay Shirky, Gin, Television, and Social Surplus: Here Comes Everybody
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Watchpierreism:
Carrotmob is a flashmob-based movement with an amazingly simple but ingenious agenda: to organise mass purchases to companies that agree to make environmentally friendly choices. This is an inspirational 10 minutes.
Genius
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Watchmarco:
Harlem to Grand Central in 58 seconds, by me. View in HD.
Timelapse at 10x realtime, filmed with the camera pressed against the front window of the Metro-North train. No sound, since the natural audio was boring and I couldn’t think of a good music track to attach except Star Guitar, but it’s copyrighted and Vimeo probably wouldn’t appreciate that.
My first original video on Tumblr (and...
Flickr: The wardrobe_remix Pool →
“Between the ages of 25 and 60, people’s ability to use websites declines...”
– Middle-Aged Users’ Declining Web Performance (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
March 2008
“… eager, imaginative, drama-queen Anne makes such an impression on shy old...”
– If I have a son I have no idea what to buy him to read apart from Swallows and Amazons. But any daughter of mine will have a huge library… Margaret Atwood salutes a childhood classic, Anne of Green Gables | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books
Custom HTML/Multiple Signatures in Gmail →
asprettyasasong: alicia: multiple signatures in gmail. like this. comes in handy for using gmail to manage my many, many email addys. This is so helpful! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Apple logo makes you creative
The team conducted an experiment in which 341 university students completed what they believed was a visual acuity task, during which either the Apple or IBM logo was flashed so quickly that they were unaware they had been exposed to the brand logo. The participants then completed a task designed to evaluate how creative they were, listing all of the uses for a brick that they could imagine beyond...
