Archive for March, 2009

The inhibitive power of fear

31, Mar 2009

Amazing. I sit on a global panel dedicated to investigating new and emerging media. Our mandate is to share understanding and experience on emergent technologies and their impact on channel, organisational or audience strategy. The brief is incredibly open and is supposed to encourage and support the testing and discussion of new ideas. Sounds positive? [...]

And now, the end is near

31, Mar 2009

So the Twitchiker’s journey has come to an end. For those of us who have been following, it’s been an interesting experiment to see unfold. For those of use who haven’t been following the premise is this: could a man travel from the UK to NZ in 30 days, with the journey paid for and [...]

The financial crisis as explained by Southpark

27, Mar 2009

OK, so its a take on Plato’s frogs, but its still funny. South Park Wed 10pm / 9c Bailout! comedycentral.com Joke of the Day Stand-Up Comedy Free Online Games

Crowdsourcing: simply a neologism or a true societal shift?

18, Mar 2009

Until recently, I had never heard of SXSW. However, over the past few weeks, my Twitter account has been besieged by a seemingly endless stream of informative and thought-provoking soundbites, articles and ideas, all coming from this event. Now events aren’t new, especially those heralding the ‘must attend’ nature of content. Nor are the endless [...]

Seeing red

13, Mar 2009

For those of you who haven’t noticed, today’s happens to be Red Nose Day. Whilst Red Nose Day represents a chance for the less inhibited of us to do something extroverted in the name of charity, it got me to thinking about how the web has really helped advance the cause of charities by simplifying [...]

Web design can still be beautiful

9, Mar 2009

Just came across this beautiful use of flash to promote the Chiraumi Aquarium. The user interface of a ‘shark’ swimming through the aquarium consists of user generated YouTube videos. Just class


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