LINKS FROM January 2007
Graphs for everything you can imagine.
Tags: blogs funny visualization
"Recommendations are based on your search history, ratings and viewing patterns. We filter out the videos you mark as "not interested" as well as videos you have recently watched."
Tags: google attention video search recommendation
"I believe that the basis of competition in web services will shift from the data to the system that manages the acquisition, and use of that data."
Tags: data trend future business internet
Who Will Win High-Def DVD Format War? Ask The XXX Industry
"But considering the adult-entertainment industry’s historical lead in adopting new media and marketing technologies, could its withdrawal from physical media signal a larger media-consumption trend altogether? One without stamped DVDs?"
Tags: dvd technology trend sex video
The problem with one right answer
momus shows the world there is often more than one answer, especially to popular riddles.
Paradox of the active user (aka "I don't *want* to RTFM")
"The “paradox of the active user� is a paradox because users would save time in the long term by taking some initial time to optimize the system and learn more about it. But that’s not how people behave in the real world . . . "
Tags: design interface usability
"People have been calling them “guerilla farms� or “green graffiti,� I guess because it is done without permission. But I believe it is a victimless crime, if a crime at all."
Tags: japan city design green food
Interview with Robbie Vitrano of Trumpet Advertising
"We now refer to ourselves as a brand studio. We like the concept of a studio as a place to study and solve problems. It is expressly media neutral."
Tags: marketing branding change neworleans
Part of Terry Heaton's TV News in a Postmodern World series.
Tags: advertising internet local likemind
Bears fans vent anger on blog site over snubs
Da Bears Blog gets a nice mention in the Chicago Tribune.
Is Federer the greatest sportsman ever?
"The way Federer is going, it is entirely conceivable that he will one day be seen as the greatest sportsman in history."
"I collect a ton of information, then organize it, then I map it to the task I’m trying to do. Then I repeat."
Tags: decisions ideas learning process psychology productivity
"The results are listed below - the most beautiful fonts, created by the open-source community and free for personal, academic and (sometimes) commercial use."
"Come celebrate Mardi Gras in Brooklyn at Union Hall. A benefit to aid the musicians of New Orleans. 2 Floors of Mardi Gras celebration. 5 Bands Rocking New Orleans Music with a DJ spinning. Live raffle, liberating guitars, soul food and more."
Tags: nyc
How Steve Jobs blew his iPhone keynote
Should he really have announced six months before release?
Tags: apple technology mobile design presentation business
Plan Will Allow 911 and 311 Lines to Accept Digital Images
"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who built his fortune on innovations in information technology, announced a plan yesterday that will allow emergency 911 call centers and the popular 311 service line to receive digital photos and videos from callers."
Tags: nyc technology politics mobile photography
Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!
"AT&T just bought Cingular? Cingular was already owned by AT&T? Bellsouth owns who?! Let Stephen Colbert help you figure this out!"
Tags: funny video phone mobile business politics
Clay talks about elegance, one of my favorite themes of the moment.
Tags: elegance branding marketing design
I Survived My Internet Vacation
The dangers of seven days without the web.
"Droog is a brand and a mentality: design of products that do what they should and think about why they’re doing it in the first place: function? fun? wit? criticism? All of the above?"
Tags: design marketing inspiration ideas dutch
Transportation Textile Patterns
More rugs from trains and subways than you could ever imagine.
Tags: photography transportation design
"The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language."
Tags: advertising flickr copywriting marketing
Ubicomp, everyware, spimes and clipes
"It all started with language, I guess. We named things, and by naming things we labeled them. Now we're giving the labels electronic voices in the form of tiny transmitters."
Tags: spimes rfid trend future communication
"Plus, if they're saying something negative online they're already saying it offline. So now they're no longer talking behind your back. That's more polite, no?"
Tags: marketing wordofmouth community passion
2006 Agency Of The Year: Nobody
"What should an agency of the year look like? In my eyes–in this era of the rising “you�–an agency must embody ten critical attributes and capabilities"
Tags: marketing change culture advertising business management
Point number 1 out of 9 for determining whether you have mojo: "Have a higher purpose. I know I’ve said this before, but it’s essential to mojo to believe in something beyond your own needs."
Tags: remarkable branding marketing
The world's strongest, most beautiful umbrellas.
Go outside, membership is free.
Tags: funny secondlife
"Homaro Cantu's odd brand of humor, technology, shock value, and flavor has turned the fine-dining experience on its head. Now this 29-year-old reformed pyromaniac is trying to redefine the nature of food--and, oh yeah, end world hunger."
Tags: food restaurant science technology innovation cooking invention
Placing Ads Anywhere and Everywhere
New York Times documents some of the stranger places advertising is showing up.
Tags: advertising marketing strange trend
"The inevitability of jeans is clearly part of the monoculture we live in. It's part of the paradox that, in a time when more people are alive than ever before, there are fewer and fewer styles, erasure of difference, pluricide."
"The Saddam Hussein footage is horrifying. But it is also informative. Now we definitively know the truth and can attribute this knowledge to the public online viewing of smuggled footage taken from a cell phone."
Tags: transparency video politics
"And could simple daily routines which are calming and centring and less greedy come to the fore? Will we relearn the art of living well?"
Tags: marketing predictions simplicity
"Community is not a buzzword to describe a monolithic mass of marketing data. Communities are made up of people with endless motivations, hopes, dreams and goals and all have unique personalities."
Tags: community socialnetworking marketing
Brands Produce Their Own Shows
"More marketers are creating their own TV shows in the hopes of endearing viewers to the brands behind them."
Tags: marketing advertising movies television branding nytimes
PHPlist: Email Confirmation not arriving
I spent hours trying to figure why the confirmation email wasn't arriving. Turns out I just needed to "make sure you have [quote]define ("TEST",0);[/quote] in your 'config/config.php' file." So simple . . .
Tags: php email software free opensource tips
Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials
30 suggestions from Jack Kerouac
Tags: writing inspiration thinking ideas tips
Apple Fails to Reinvent Telecommunications Industry
"Apple did NOT reinvent to telecommunications sector even though there is a good chance that it could have done so. Too bad."
Tags: apple mobile technology
"The two big user interface questions I have about the iPhone are how useful it will be if you can't pay full attention to the screen, and whether it will favor power users once they've gotten the hang of it."
Powells.com Interviews Steven Johnson
"That's the natural mode that my brain seems to work in. When I see a problem, I think, How does this connect up and down? That pushes you into other disciplines."
Tags: interviews books culture thinking city
Apple's New Calling: The iPhone
Time has a good breakdown of the iPhone.
Tags: apple design mobile technology innovation
"She has self-selected what she takes in to such a degree that getting a word or thought or image into her consciousness that she hasn't chosen herself is like serenading a cinderblock wall."
Burger King Sells 2 Million Game Copies in 4 Weeks
"Burger King 'announced that its trio of games for the Xbox and Xbox 360 had broken the 2 million mark in just four weeks'"
Tags: marketing videogames food trend
"These 'networkers' start conversations with random strangers and often reveal personal information, such as their favourite films or which celebrity they think is most attractive."
Tags: funny socialnetworking community likemind
"Moving forward not-knowing is more valuable than moving forward assuming we know. Doubt, not certainty, is the foundation of reasoning, emotion, and learning."
Tags: education conversation community internet
Mission for 2007 and the rest of my life: 10x
"What if I was focused on providing 10x (x = to the value provided to me). This is a bit of a misnomer because I intend to provide this contribution without any reciprication. I just know that it is the right way to operate."
"Whether you have your eye on a plum promotion, a plump pay rise or just a happier workplace, begin your quest here with our tips on making more of your nine-to-five this year. To kick off, Seth Godin says being average in 2007 just won't do ."
Tags: marketing passion remarkable business management ideas
"Although the web has enabled all of us to connect with so many people we couldn't have before we still don't know that many more people face to face. It's the real-world meet up that realizes the whole social networking phenomenon."
Tags: socialnetworking coffee likemind culture trend
Out-of-Home Still Out Of Sight, Ad Demand Surges
"Out-of-home remains the second-fastest-growing ad segment behind the Internet."
Tags: advertising economics
The Decomposition of the Television Set
"These changes aren't evolutionary shifts. They are revolutionary. And, as with revolutions, two things can happen. You win big, or you lose big. There generally is no revolutionary middle class."
Tags: television marketing advertising future
Yahoo! Go. The Internet to go.
"Yahoo Go! is the first application optimized for the “small screen� of a mobile phone that truly makes it easy and fun to access the Internet."
Tags: mobile software free yahoo
Thrillist reviews my favorite new bar in New York City.
Tags: nyc bars cocktailculture
Breakfast Is Late, So Business Is Good
"For the late-rising professions, the networking site of choice is a cafe with a Continental vibe."
Tags: coffee breakfast trend business networking food nytimes
"How does using a computer change when nothing ever has to be thrown away? And how does the experience design of software have to change to accommodate that change in usage?"
Tags: technology innovation culture
Some thoughts on innovation from Grant McCracken.
Tags: innovation creativity business management
"A group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a company so that they are able to accomplish something that they would not be able to accomplish separately."
Tags: marketing business passion quotes
The difference between strategy and tactics
"If you are tired of hammering your head against the wall, if it feels like you never are good enough, or that you're working way too hard, it doesn't mean you're a loser. It means you've got the wrong strategy."
Guy Kawasaki offers up some tips.
Tags: networking tips business entrepreneur
"In an age when many politicians seem molded from plastic, Obama's smoking may actually help his image"
Tags: politics culture marketing
Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm
"Google, in typical eccentric fashion, has created an automated way to search for well-rounded candidates."
Tags: google management jobs culture business nytimes
What happens to their webs when you give spiders different drugs?
2006 Advertising/Design Goodness Year in Review
"Thanks to all of you for making the year 2006 of Advertisng/Design Goodness such a sucess. Let’s have a look at what I think is the best of the year."
Tags: marketing advertising design bestof2006
Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don't
"Experiments suggest that the conscious choice is an illusion, but some philosophers and physicists choose to disagree."
Tags: philosophy science thinking nytimes
"If the thought of being a yuppie once made you shudder, you’re not alone. But if you’re a thirtysomething professional, it’s quite possible you’ve become a yuppie without even realizing it."
Beyond Skin Deep: The real top dating sites
Some numbers and rankings of online dating sites.
Tags: onlinedating statistics
"I wanted to be a billionaire," says the man responsible for your Jagermeister headache. At age 85 he stunned the liquor industry by getting his wish."
Tags: alcohol cocktailculture marketing entrepreneur
Lots of info on the hazards of packaging . . .
Friendship: The Laws of Attraction
"The conventional wisdom is that we choose friends because of who they are. But it turns out that we actually love them because of the way they support who we are. "
Tags: psychology identity culture friendship relationships
Anal Sex Is Increasingly Popular in the Hetero World
"Anal-sex talk still makes people blush. But it’s also increasingly popular in the hetero world."
Is Design the New Management Consultancy? Not Exactly
"Some folks are asking this question. I’ve spent the past two years making the transition from designer to business consultant, jumping a lot of hurdles along the way. Here’s a little of what I learned"
Tags: design business consulting strategy management
All about Google's new New York City office.
Tags: google nyc management culture nytimes
ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens)
"While adult bloggers talk about building an identity through extended blogging, i keep finding teens who got locked out of Xanga and responded by making another Xanga (or a Blogger or a LiveJournal)."
Tags: attention socialnetworking identity youth internet
As compiled by Communication Arts.
Tags: design lists marketing reference
A collection of North American front pages from the day after Saddam's death.
Tags: design newspapers politics iraq
"But, because of the nature of non-digital reality, taking up label space with a notice that the meat is cloned would itself be metadata indicating that the government thinks such information is worth noting. Metadata in the physical world is a zero sum g
Wave v Particle Model of Messages
"The particle view of messages makes sense in our post-mass-media world where communications are dominated by one-to-one exchanges rather than broadcast blasts from centralized sources."
Tags: marketing communication business viral
"The language of the long tail often takes on the rhetoric of democracy or even revolution, but the fact is that nothing about the influx of user generated content necessarily impacts the inequalities encoded into the power law curve."
Tags: longtail economics internet
Why your bosses want to turn your new office into Greenwich Village.
Tags: architecture business management city collaboration culture design innovation productivity