July 2009
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WatchScintillation, an extravagant visual experience of color and form. (via Boing Boing, altnytterfarlig)
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“In their scope, both the Internet and New York are profoundly humbling: young...”
– Bill Wasik, “Bright Lights, Big Internet,” NYTimes.com
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“In the old model, young creatives dreamed of entertaining the millions, but in...”
– Bill Wasik, “Bright Lights, Big Internet,” NYTimes.com
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“Although I actively participate in a network of blogs, Facebook, and Twitter, I...”
– Emergent Village (via azspot)
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“The HP Alliance has adopted an unconventional approach to civic engagement...”
– “How Dumbledore’s Army” Is Transforming Our World,” by Henry Jenkins
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The Harry Potter Alliance →
The Harry Potter Alliance is dedicated to using the examples of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore to spread love and fight the Dark Arts in the real world. Please join us in creating the real Dumbledore’s Army. More here and here.
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Emotional Ads Work Best →
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“I have an account that I follow on my personal blackberry but I don’t actually...”
– White House Deputy Press Secretary, Bill Burton Mediaite (via apsies)
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Update
Feedback on my I love the internet post that has to be incorporated, so far.
From Chris: “In terms of structure, I get the impression that the section headers “Express yourself” and “make friends” are really the most crucial parts because - if I’m thinking like a troglodyte - I could think that the previous 3 sections amount to “the internet is a place...
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Why I love the internet
In a typical day, I might write two tweets, peruse 15 blogs […] and watch James Brown dance on YouTube. If it’s a really fun day, I’ll read more blogs, scour the Web for movie reviews, browse eBay, Google myself, and spend more time on Twitter. None of this costs me a penny, and yet I am producing plenty - namely, my own interest and amusement. More and more,...
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“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To...”
– Rilke (via yvonnegeorgina)
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“The site seemed a place to turn in anxious moments of loneliness or existential...”
– Rob Horning on his solidifying dislike of Facebook, Marginal Utility
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“It’s hard to get your content out of Facebook once you put it in. When...”
– Facebook is basically designed like a lobster trap with your friends as bait.
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“What does it mean, exactly, to “embrace the medium”? Apparently, it means a...”
– Ben Brown, Subtraction.com: A Good Day’s Busy Work via nickdouglas
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“I didn’t begin as a reporter at my school paper (was rejected, actually) or an...”
– Ezra Klein, explaining correctly why bloggers often provide better insight and analysis than traditional reporters (via jeffmiller) (via asprettyasasong)
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On the club sandwich
The club sandwich is not a good sandwich. How many times have you thought, ‘ah, what I would really like right now is a chicken and bacon sandwich with an inexplicable extra slice of toast in the centre’. Never. You have never thought that.
But how many times have you found yourself alone in a hotel room, wearing an outsized bathrobe, thinking, ‘Hm, I should eat something, but I can’t bear...
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“Research has shown that with instant messaging, if there are 100 people on your...”
– Modern communications does not expand our social circles, but has “democratised intimacy.” Stefana Broadbent’s TEDGlobal talk via The Guardian.
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Consumers frustrated by internet ads →
Surveyed people loathe ads that cover the content (80%), followed by the ones that make it difficult to find the close or skip button (79%) and pop-ups (76%).
But in the same study Harris also polled marketers, 92% of which said they use Internet advertising, with 74% earmarking it for an increase.
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“In 1965, 80% of 18-49 year olds in the US could be reached with three 60-second...”
– Courtesy of Futurelab. (via alexjcampbell)
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Getting Real: the smarter, faster, easier way to... →
by 37 Signals
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“People who look after clients must not only know what you do and how you do it -...”
– How to be better at digital, or interactive, or new media or whatever it’s called… Made By Many
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“Change is inevitable. Yes, change, *during* the course of development. So,...”
– How to be better at digital, or interactive, or new media or whatever it’s called… Made By Many
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“Involvement of the specialist digital agencies occurs too late for them to show...”
– 10 Reasons Why There’s Not More Great Work in the Interactive Space BBH Labs
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“The whole configuration of account & creative teams needs to change, with...”
– Why isn’t there more great work in the interactive space? BBH Labs
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“I haven’t had any qualms about using a word like...”
– The late Bill Jayme, “one of the greatest direct mail writers of the past century,” via I, A Bee
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“What if your digital creative agency sold 100 little digital experiences instead...”
– Mike Arauz: A New Business Model for Digital Agencies
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“Agencies (digital, traditional, whatever) have been giving ideas away for free...”
– Comment on Mike Arauz’s New Business Model for Digital Agencies
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“I don’t know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always...”
– Salinger, Nine Stories (via seymourglass) (via unicornology)
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