LINKS FROM June 2007
"Out with the old and in with the iPhone. Everybody wants one. But not everybody’s going to get one!"
Beautiful posters by Niklaus Troxler.
Tags: design inspiration
Voices from the New American Schoolhouse (trailer)
"The film chronicles life and learning at the Fairhaven School in Upper Marlboro, MD which practices an undiluted form of freedom and democracy that turns mainstream education theory on its head."
Tags: education movies video youth learning organization
'Stealth racism' stalks deep South
"This World investigates the rise of discrimination in America's deep south as six black youths are charged with an alleged attack on a white student, which could see them jailed for up to 50 years."
Tags: race
Required Reading: the next 10 years
"The bottom line: I have decided to shift my academic work, and soon, my activism, away from the issues that have consumed me for the last 10 years, towards a new set of issues. Why and what are explained in the extended entry below."
Tags: corruption politics change
Visual voicemail for the BlackBerry. Take that iPhone.
Tags: mobile software blackberry free
"Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity."
Tags: art design visualization internet programming
House of Naked: The Home of Naked Communications NYC
The Naked blog.
'omg my mom joined facebook!!'
"A nosy parent goes where the kids are and learns more than just what her kid is up to."
Tags: facebook youth parents socialnetworking privacy culture trend
The value of virtual ghettos and virtual suburbs, part #2
"Everyone wants to sell things to the rich kids, sure. But to get the rich kids to care, they've got to sell them to the cool kids first."
Tags: culture economics influence marketing facebook myspace socialnetworking
Ratatouille Star Patton Oswalt on Geeks vs. Nerds
"A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, "I speak Klingon  who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like." Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves."
Tags: geeks culture interviews
Gothamist received a 14-page manifesto from the splasher.
Tags: nyc streetart graffiti art
One of these things is not like the other
"Guess someone's got a web 2.0 strategy, but didn't hear about the naming conventions."
Is wealth really the best form of birth control?
"What if this economic/demographic phenomenon is just a blip while people (in, say, the UK) are rich enough to want the benefits of child-free leisure but not quite rich enough yet to afford childcare?"
Tags: money culture demographics
Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering
"Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays."
Tags: apple microsoft font typography
Is it a hamster or a prairie dog is the real question.
Come to Israel, Meet Hot Babes
"Maxim Features Models From Israeli Army; Many in Israel Call It Inappropriate"
Tags: marketing pr israel gender sex
Bubblegeneration takes issue with the social networking class divide argument. When there's only one (very smart) voice of dissent, it's usually worth thinking about.
Tags: socialnetworking culture class
Pulls in PageRank, Technorati, del.icio.us and gives a grade.
These guys create ads you remember
"Wieden seems sincere when he says his "favorite organism is the slime mold spore." They have to get to light to propagate, so they form a "worm-like object" to create a sort of mass migration  "its individuals working together to solve a problem.""
Tags: advertising nike marketing
"comScore Widget Metrix" Service Launched to Track Widget Usage Across the Web
"Photo-related Widgets Dominate the Top 10; Slide Ranks #1 with Worldwide Reach of 117 Million People"
Tags: widgets statistics
"The future is here and it's not an iPhone . . . it's a big ass table."
Tags: funny video microsoft design
Crazy HTML Wizardry From Japan
"If you know anything about HTML, this will astound you! You're not meant to be able to do this with basic HTML code."
dove's evolution is the last of its kind
"If your brand is brave and gutsy enough to get behind a powerful and challenging socio-cultural idea, execute with creative brilliance and support it with a smart CSR program, you will get people to pay attention, but it's . . . unlikley for $50,000"
Tags: viral marketing business youtube
"The details are not details. They make the product." - Charles Eames
"Those who saw the telephone as a destructive force in communities might have had -- and might still have -- a point, but technological changes have left them on the fringe of society."
Tags: culture privacy identity youth business transparency
"What's on family dinner tables in fifteen different homes around the globe? Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book "Hungry Planet""
Tags: food culture photography
"Lesson one: a social network that lets people express multiple identities in multiple ways is almost always going to dominate a network that tries to confine identity within a singular niche. "
Tags: socialnetworking culture identity
A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket
"A single-line, bank-style checkout system has given Whole Foods one of the fastest grocery store lines in New York."
Tags: supermarket shopping nyc nytimes
Irish Goodbye: "Leaving the bar or anywhere for that matter, without closing niceties, like a kiss goodbye to that annoying girl or mentioning something to your friends"
The Old Model: TimesSelect Is A Failure
"TimesSelect, the world's stupidest pay-for-content bar to a good user experience, has 222,300 paying members as of May, according to a report just released by the Times."
Tags: newspapers nytimes advertising business
Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Photosynth demo
"Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation."
Tags: photography community networking linking technology video bestarticlesof2007
Reinventing the conference, blogger and new media style
"What we want from a conference is not a surrogate intelligence of a big name speaker. What we want is a tide that delivers new and interesting things that present themselves in fresh and unexpectedly formed ways."
Tags: conference postmodernism culture
Forget 'Digital'. We're Talking Post-Communication
"This is not a digital revolution. It’s social. Your Freeview box is digital. Your computer is digital. Everything else is people."
Tags: media community technology culture
"I sat there at one moment thinking what it would cost me in time and effort to meet any of these people. Tons. Tons of time and effort. But these people have found one another, thanks to the internet, blogging"
Tags: blogs culture community trend
A conversation about death between a parent and his three-year-old daughter.
10 Things We Can Learn From Apple
"Here are ten reasons why I think Apple is so successful today, and what we can learn from them"
Tags: apple design bestarticlesof2007 innovation marketing
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"Bison from upstate New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also happen to intimidate other bison in their community." Head = exploded.
Teens Schizophrenic About Their Brands
"Millennials have complex feelings about brands unless, of course, it's Apple. "
Tags: branding marketing research youth apple
"Michele read a couple weblog entries and heard an NPR story about how you might be able to clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher. So she organized a bit of an experiment."
Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online
BusinessWeek chart with some data about who is doing what.
Tags: research statistics visualization demographics
Ask.com VP of Marketing explaining the new algorithm campaign by Crispin + Porter.
Tags: marketing advertising search
Wayne Gretzky-Style 'Field Sense' May Be Teachable
Can you teach 'vision' in sports?
Tags: sports psychology science
Great Bud Light ad.
Tags: advertising commercial video beer funny
Gaining Insight From The Community
"Some of you may be aware that Facebook launched a polling service last week that allows you to run a flash poll across the Facebook network."
"Crushpad provides grapes from the West Coast's top vineyards, an industry-acclaimed wine making team and a state-of-the-art winery 100% focused on making wine in small lots. You choose your level of involvement and we do the rest."
Thirty Six Youth Facts in One Hundred and fifty Nine Seconds
"The Threebillion Project put together a nice little video for MTV Asia's Music Matters conference in Hong Kong last week. The video displays thirty six youth facts in one hundred and fifty nine seconds."
Tags: asia youth statistics technology research demographics
"How enduring will online memorials prove to be in the long run?"
Tags: death myspace culture socialnetworking
Did pirates really say "arrrr"?
"Probably not. Both that phrase and the accent that goes with it are strictly Hollywood. They originated with Robert Newton, the actor who played Long John Silver in the movies and on TV through much of the 1950s." I'm crushed.
Tags: history funny language movies
Diamonds Are Forever! TODAY ONLY!
"If there's any significance at all to Hirst's skull, it's as a symbol of a far-reaching, manipulative cartel of dubious ethics at the center of an elaborately collusive web of mutually beneficial delusion."
Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Traffic
Stowe Boyd on a new kind of consciousness.
"I wrote “3pm� in an Outlook email this morning, and the spell checker asked me if I meant MP3."
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"Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag Click on an image to reveal the flag"
Tags: flags colors design visualization
A giant list of companies and the typeface they use.
Tags: fonts typography design reference
Pure insanity.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Highlight Reel
"A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference."
Tags: video interviews funny apple microsoft