LINKS FROM October 2005
when media becomes culture: rethinking copyright issues
"The RIAA (and other such organizations) have been so successful at getting their media distributed that they have become culture. In turn, this means that they are the building blocks in which communication occurs."
Tags: remix communication copyright media posted
Public Enemy Takes It to the Net
Public Enemy is alive and kicking both on the net and off.
"FinderPop makes this process a lot easier by allowing you to list aliases to desired applications directly in the Finder's contextual menu."
"VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks."
Tags: visualization posted
"While blogging can be about playing on a world stage to influence . . . there are millions of people who are happily publishing daily without those motivations. For them, it's more about expression, self-reflection, and communication."
Tags: blogs culture podcasting posted
"The set includes 15 custom, 32×32, transparent PNG icons, PSD file included. These icons are perfect for browser skins, or anything else you want to use them for."
Tags: icons free design posted
The other night all of New York City smelled like maple syrup. It was really bizarre.
Tags: funny strange nyc smell posted
The four toughest talks in business
"All tough conversations put you on the defensive. Your job is to switch to offense and work toward a solution that satisfies both sides. To do this, you must understand four truths of tough talks"
Tags: business communication management posted
Steve Rubel: "This illustrates the gap they can narrow by getting more involved in the dialogue by having a blog."
Tags: corporateblogging business marketing search posted
"The acclaimed SoHo store owner highlights the design trends he sees emerging around the world, from the human touch to low-tech approaches"
Tags: design trend furniture posted
If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History
Some screenshots of Fox News' coverage of important events through history
Tags: funny television politics posted
America Internet Usage and Population Statistics
"Internet User Statistics and Population Stats for 51 countries and regions"
Tags: internet statistics research
"NATURE lovers fear that squirrels could become hooked on crack cocaine plundered from addicts' hidden stashes."
Tags: funny drugs strange squirrels posted london
A Dashboard application that allows you to "instantly copy a chunk of “Lorem Ipsum� to your clipboard with a single click."
Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone
"Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong."
Tags: apple drm mobile ipod mp3 music technology posted innovation
Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign
"The desire to redesign is aesthetic-driven, while the desire to realign is purpose-driven."
Everytime you buy something with your Bank of America debit card they'll round up to the nearest dollar and transfer the extra money to your savings account.
Tags: business money marketing banking posted
Mycroft search plugin for The Hype Machine
Nice easy way to search for MP3s straight from Firefox.
Tags: firefox search music mp3 free posted
The commercial where they dropped a whole bunch of bouncy balls on a San Francisco street is out.
Tags: advertising fun video sony posted commercial
Including the top 10 reasons to love Nike.
Tags: nike lists branding business posted
10 Tips for Successful College Marketing
Some good things to think about if you're planning on marketing to college students.
Tags: college marketing posted
The Great Non-Amber-Colored Hope
"And if ClearRx is a success, you can be sure that no one will be happier than the graphic design community. Starved for years for persuasive proof that graphic design can make a difference, we finally have an icon to call our own."
Tags: design target health posted
How the swoosh came to be for only $35.
Tags: branding design nike posted
ABC Affiliates Begin Video Podcasting
"News affiliates WABC-TV in New York and WLS-TV in Chicago have begun video podcasting their broadcasts."
Tags: podcasting video television posted
Play the game, win a Swiss bank account. Sweet.
Tags: games flash rmg panasonic posted
Other Places Jimmy Buffett Wasted Away.
"Slipperynippleberg"
Power Companies Enter the High-Speed Internet Market
"Known as broadband over power line, or B.P.L., the service is poised to challenge the cable and phone companies that dominate the high-speed Internet market."
Tags: internet broadband city posted
Subscribe to free, del.icio.us video in iTunes
"Now that del.icio.us offers feeds by filetype and iTunes has full video support (including “vodcasts,� or video podcasts), you can load up iTunes with free video files bookmarked and tagged in del.icio.us."
Tags: apple itunes video del.icio.us rss posted
Most Designers aren't Design Thinkers - Yet
"The shorthand of “design thinking� gathers a set of skills and perspectives that correlate to increased design maturity framing and solving problems, instead of designing function, form, and style."
Tags: design thinking business posted
IKEA asked 28 designers to explore and experiment. Check out what they came up with.
Tags: design furniture ikea posted
20 Best License-Free Quality Fonts
"Top 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts, which are likely to be used rather for official, serious presentations (such as business sites) than a colourful teenager’s homepage."
Tags: free font typography lists posted
I hear this a fair amount myself, no necessarily from media people, but just randomly. It always feels a bit bizarre.
Tags: media blogs posted ethics
Top Ten Mac OS X Freeware/Shareware Applications
Andy Budd: "Here are my current top ten OS X freeware and shareware applications. What are yours and why?"
Tags: apple software lists posted
"FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software."
Tags: apple free font software organization typography design
Tracking Down An Address In 1939 Vienna
An AskMetafilter member asks if anyone can help track down the address of his grandfather in Vienna. In turn he gets not only the adress, but also documents including he never knew about.
Tags: history cool community posted
Worn Photoshop Brushes For High Resolution
A set of cool, free worn looking hi-res Photoshop brushes
Tags: design photoshop brushes
Jakob Nielsen: "Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues,"
Tags: blogs usability design ui lists posted
HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software
Nice and easy instructions from Mark Pilgrim
Tags: apple ipod movies tutorial posted
"The Ogilvy PR BlogFeeds are our feeds from some of the most influential blogs out there. The ones we're reading every day."
Tags: blogs marketing pr rss posted
The World's Most Dangerous Geek : News
"Justin Frankel, the man who popularized file-sharing, has even bigger plans"
Tags: music aol p2p mp3 posted
The design portfolio of Peter Reid
Tags: design nicedesign
Web 2.0: Conversation with Five Teenagers
Web 2.0 Conference: "Safa Rashtchy, managing director at Piper Jaffray, moderated a panel with five Bay-Area teenagers."
Tags: youth internet technology myspace research posted
A search engine where "Del.icio.us users bookmarking helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently bookmarking those URLs) have greater influence on search rankings."
Tags: del.icio.us tags search posted
"Enter the kitchen that is designchuchi and let your palatine be indulged by a home-made meal cooked with exquisite and fresh ingredients from only the choicest places in the world."
Tags: design webdesign nicedesign
An amazing interview with Cost and Revs for 1994
"Written back in 1994, I think it would be good for the Wooster readers to remember who took the paste up and turned it into something dangerous and started a Street Art phenomenon that is world wide now."
Tags: streetart nyc graffiti posted art
"Pixen is the best program for the pixel artist using Mac OS X. There is no competition, not even from the huge companies with several-hundred-dollar software suites."
Tags: design apple software free icons posted
Some good photos by an old friend.
Tags: photography art
Nick Denton: "The whole point about blogs is that they're not part of big media. Consolidation defeats the purpose. It's way too early. Like a decade too early."
Tags: blogs business media posted
Seven Technologies That Change Everything
Everything from AJAX to biogenerics
Tags: ajax business internet science technology posted
How Steve Jobs snookered the entire cell phone industry
The Theory: Steve Jobs used Motorola to get a deal with Cingular with the eventual plan of an iPod phone.
Tags: apple ipod itunes mobile music business posted
Did you say dogging or blogging? Brits confused
"A survey of British taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers -- often seen as barometers of popular trends -- found that nearly 90 percent had no idea what a podcast is and more than 70 percent had never heard of blogging."
Tags: funny research blogs podcasting england posted
"Jon Stewart is very funny and on his cult US television show he's a rare scourge of the rich and powerful, especially Bush and his court. Gary Younge puts it to him, is he really angry with America, or is he a man on a mission for the next joke?"
Tags: funny television politics media interviews posted
"It also provides a look at what Apple is doing to get close to the customer, exame the consumer experience and get its product design and innovation right. CEOs, innovation champions, managers, designers, marketers"
Tags: apple design business customerservice posted
Bugs are pretty much the only thing left without any advertising . . . not for much longer.
Tags: funny bugs art photography advertising posted
"Can you make the type bigger?"
"When design becomes client driven, and the designer sidelined to a role of passive implementer, the result is the timid repetition of formulaic ideas and endlessly recycled stylistic poses."
" I printed 15,000 of these bubble stickers and place them on top of ads all over New York City. Passersby fill them in. I go back and photograph the results."
Tags: streetart advertising photography graffiti posted
How To Turn Your Hamster into a Fighting Machine!!
Who hasn't ever thought of this? (You're lying if you say you haven't.)
Not surprisingly, it's a blog about designers who blog
Lives of the Cannibals: Redemption
"And this is why the 2005 Yankees have a shot at being the most memorable team to come out of the City in years. They've seized every opportunity to make things hard this season."
A tutorial search engine for programming and design
Tags: design tutorial programming posted css
His 'Secret' Movie Trailer Is No Secret Anymore
NYTimes covers Robert Ryang's remixed Shining trailer
Tags: funny movies nytimes remix viral posted
Ever wonder what would happen if The Shining was just a little more cheerful?
Tags: funny movies remix posted
"For the first time in history, Skewville, America's most subversive street art twins, will be unlcoking their doors and allowing the public to explore their secret laboratory."
Tags: streetart art nyc gallery posted
"Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications."
Tags: community development free socialsoftware web2.0 posted
Steven Johnson: "Software upgrades promise to turn the Internet into a lush rain forest of information teeming with new life"
Tags: emergence web2.0 blogs rss posted
A good resource of free PHP and perl scripts including Advanced Poll
Tags: free perl php webmastertools posted
"Download Gametap and play hundreds of the greatest arcade, console and PC games of all time."
Tags: videogames posted
"Textpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations."
Tags: free apple software productivity typing posted
Website of Jan Rambousek, freelance designer.
Tags: photography design art nicedesign inspiration posted
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
Jakob Nielsen: "The oldies continue to be goodies -- or rather, baddies -- in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005."
Tags: design usability webdesign posted