LINKS FROM July 2007
Why Did We Feel Oddly Liberated Thinking That the Terrorists Had Struck Again?
"Why did we feel oddly liberated thinking that the terrorists had struck again, finally?"
Martin Nowak - In Games, an Insight Into the Rules of Evolution
"Martin Nowak’s projects may seem randomly scattered across the sciences but they share an underlying theme: cooperation."
Tags: evolution emergence games science economics nytimes
Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future
A not-so-hard-to-imagine future vision from Bruce Sterling.
Tags: blogs culture future local rfid science technology
Economists mine the online auction site to find out why shoppers act irrationally.
Tags: economics ebay gambling psychology
A two-minute animated introduction to typography
"A two-minute animated introduction to typography created by Vancouver Film School students Ryan Uhrich and Marcos Ceravolo."
Tags: typography video design animation
"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview."
Tags: video movies animation music politics interviews
Afterbirth of the 30-second spot
"Our industry loves to fund studies that justify blind allegiance to the status quo, even though our own experiences clearly demonstrate that the same old things simply aren't as effective as they once were."
Tags: marketing commercial research advertising
Deal Note: Twitter's Nonexistent Business Model (Or, How to Invest in Media)
"Rather, next-gen investors are better off understanding why and how value creation and value capture will shift over the next 2-5 years - and then invest in plays which can dominate those shifts."
Tags: business media2.0 startups money twitter
brian eno and music for airports- the inspiration
"Brian Eno talks about what inspired him to create Music for Airports, the album that gave birth to the ambient movement"
Tags: airports music design inspiration
Andrew "Cult of the Amateur" Keen gets slapped around a bit by David "Cluetrain" Weinberger in the Wall Street Journal.
Tags: culture community creativity media talent
Now a Message From a Sponsor of the Subway?
"That said, some industry experts, noting that subway stations do not quite resonate in the public imagination the way baseball stadiums do, said the authority might have a hard sell on its hands."
Tags: advertising subway nytimes nyc
Desktop Orb Could Reform Energy Hogs
"That's the power of "ambient information," which tries to combat data overload by moving information off computer screens and into the world around us."
Tags: design feedbackloops gadgets green visualization
"I thought I’d share my advice here, even though I’m still learning to apply these lessons in my own nascent career as a manager."
Tags: management business
"Ad agency Anomaly is pioneering a new model whereby it provides its creative services in return for a take of the profits. It's a high-risk strategy that could change the industry"
Tags: advertising innovation marketing business
How social networks work: the puzzle of exhaust data
"This is communication with little hard, informational content, but lots of emotional and social content. Phatic communications doesn't get much said, but it has social effects so powerful, it gets lots done."
Tags: community data facebook twitter socialnetworking
TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart
Everything you need to know about white label social networking.
Tags: socialnetworking software
"There’s a bunch of things that people who are just getting into digital always seem to propose at some point or another. I guess they’re things that are part of the learning process."
Tags: marketing internet lists
How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life
Best line: "Last winter, CNET's in-world correspondent was conducting a live interview with Anshe Chung, an avatar said to have earned more than $1 million on virtual real estate deals, when Chung was assaulted by flying penises in a griefer attack."
Tags: secondlife advertising marketing business
Online Publishers Need To Stop Selling Space
"So what’s the lesson for newspapers and other traditional media companies trying to transform themselves into online publishers? Stop selling space."
Tags: advertising business internet
All about homemade bitters.
Tags: nytimes cocktailculture
The vintage allure of Fake Steve Jobs
"What the Fake Steve Jobs phenomenon has to say about our culture is that perhaps "new media" isn't as new as we'd like to think it is."
Tags: apple blogs writing culture
In Poker Match Against a Machine, Humans Are Better Bluffers
"Hidden cards and risk-taking behavior like bluffing have made poker a difficult challenge for software designers. But as with chess and checkers, the computers are catching up."
Tags: nytimes technology chess poker ai
Lessons of "Simpsons" marketing: Clip and save
"These, in other words, are the “lessons� you can apply to your film or brand. I’m revealing them to you now! Are you ready? Here goes! You heard it here first!"
Tags: funny movies marketing television cartoon
This post brought to you by the numbers seven and twelve
"It has long been held that there are seven basic plots in literature. . . . So is it really the case that advertisements need twelve whole categories of their own (Slate), almost twice as many as either fiction or humour?"
Tags: advertising culture funny
"Due to access restrictions that limit who can see your profile, there are no ’stars’ there. I wonder - does this detract or attract? It’s kind of nice not to be confronted with celebrity at every turn."
Tags: celebrity facebook internet culture community
"One of my favorite songs, and another cracking ad from Nike. Is it just me, or are Wieden & Kennedy on a roll at the moment?"
Tags: advertising video commercial music sports
Sprint Takes Lead as 1st Sponsor of File-Sharing Song
"Sprint has signed on as the first company to underwrite a song to be distributed on file-sharing networks, agreeing to embed its logo on copies of tracks from Atlantic Records hip-hop artist Plies, sources told The Post."
Tags: business marketing music p2p
"A new type of librarian is emerging: think Dewey Decimal meets Generation X."
Tags: likemind library culture community
"The One Laptop Per Child project is one step closer to releasing the completed machine to millions of schoolchildren in the developing world. But what makes the computer so unique?"
Tags: technology opensource
iPhone Reality/Sanity Check -- my iWish list
"In conclusion, I think the iPhone is the great-great-grand-father of the future of personal media devices."
Guy on Subway Responds to iPhone
"Oh man, I gonna buy that shit now son. That shit be stunnin. I'm gonna buy that piece and stand on the corner late nights and just STUN. I ain't gonna even use that shit. I'm just gonna stun that shit on the block late nights know what I'm saying."
IPHONE. CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS.
Jeff Staple points out 18 flaws with the iPhone.
"awesome infographic of this gentleman's love life. be sure to view the PDF version since the jpg doesn't do it justice."
Tags: visualization relationships sex
Feltron.com Personal Annual Report 2005
One man's chronicle.
Tags: visualization design inspiration data
Harry Potter Wizardry Trumps iPhone Buzz By a Long Wand
"Just think about it: over 4% of all new blog posts reference or mention Harry Potter in some way, shape, or form."
"1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice! This is not the final routine, and definitely not a punishment! just a teaser."
Clay rocks out a video for likemind's first birthday.
"I've liked noticing the solidification of the internet recently, it seems to be becoming more like a thing and less like a service or process."
Tags: internet culture trend insight
Create Candor in the Workplace, Says Jack Welch
"At GE, he put these principles into action by implementing a forced ranking system that divided employees into three distinct segments: the top 20 percent of performers, the middle 70 percent, and the bottom 10 percent."
Tags: management business
"As we started to explore and experiment with communications planning, we decided that that was an appropriate answer for what had been missing."
Tags: interviews naked commsplanning marketing
"Have some invitations that you want to get off your hands? Why not share them with others."
I'M IN UR NEWSPAPER WRITIN MAH COLUM
Rapidly spreading Web photo-posting phenomenon centers on felines with poor spelling
Tags: funny cats internet meme
The Rise of Rap Cat and the New Guerrilla Ad Guys
"As old ad agencies try to get a grip on their future, the new guerrilla ad guys think they’ve got it all figured out."
Tags: marketing advertising nyc viral
"There's no such thing as "small world.""
Tags: culture community networking emergence
Naked Wins J&J's U.S. Comm. Planning Chores
That's us.
Tags: marketing commsplanning
Scott Rafer is Facebooking, launching Lookery
"Lookery, an ad network just for Facebook app publishers"
Tags: facebook advertising startups
How To Visit New York: The Basics
"To get in the right mindset about visiting New York City, there are a few things you need to really take to heart, and once you've absorbed these lessons, the rest of your trip will be much less stressful and a lot more fun."
"Small changes in incentives can make a big difference in our beliefs. For instance, UFO sightings are down dramatically in the last decade...I think [one factor is] cell phones and cell phone cameras."
"I take this time to contemplate how weird it is that, 20 years after 'Darling Nikki,' Prince is the one with the moral hang-ups, and Tipper is the one with the pothead son."
Treating different customers differently
"If you're going to be obsessed with delighting customers, it's a lot more efficient to focus on customers that are able to be delighted."
Tags: business customerservice
DEC - Glimpse of the Future, 1994
"A view of the future of the Web, circ... A view of the future of the Web, circa 1994 from DEC."
"Fopp's gone bankrupt. Prince is bypassing the stores completely to give away his new CD. But Adam Webb finds that the future of the record shop might not be as gloomy as the past week's headlines suggest"
"This is like brand panhandling"
Profero: "In August 2006 we launched a teaser campaign for the new MINI due to launch on 18 November. The campaign seeks to entice users to break from their daily surfing habits and join MINI for a random adventure into the World Wide Web."
Tags: advertising internet campaign cars
"Faced with shrinking profits, record labels are touting a new approach"
Tags: music business economics copyright marketing
Prince Points the Way to a Brighter Future for Music
Prince gave away his new CD with Sunday's Daily Mail. "Part of the problem, according to retailers, is that Prince's move helped solidify a growing perception on the part of consumers that music is free."
Tags: music business trend copyright
As grouped by their dominant design elements.
Tags: design branding logos terrorism
My Adventures Into The Mouth Of The 7-Eleven Kwik-E-Mart
"Here we have an army of Indian and Pakistani workers who, for years, have attempted to beat down the 'Thank you, come again' stereotype, and who are now being forced . . . to dress as Apu, the most blatant of all convenience store cliches."
Tags: movies television marketing
Rob Walker's latest New York Times Consumed column on the t-shirt site Threadless.
Tags: fashion tshirts community
Industry Note: Fading to Irrelevance - Joost vs and Microsoft
"Joost can't build a radically more efficient, productive, or useful value chain - because it's too busy simply rebuilding the same old lame mass media value chain, just made a tiny bit more efficient via p2p distribution."
Tags: microsoft video p2p joost
Say 'Hybrid' and Many People Will Hear 'Prius'
"One reason for the success of the Toyota Prius may be that buyers want everyone to know they are driving a hybrid."
Tags: cars culture marketing environment green
In Small Packages, Fewer Calories and More Profit
"In three years, sales of 100-calorie snack packs have passed the $20-million-a-year mark, as consumers don’t seem to mind paying more for less."
Tags: food business psychology marketing nytimes packaging health
The music industry nobs have finally figured out what we're doing
Fake Steve Jobs: "The music companies are in a dying business, and they know it. Sure, they act all cool because they hang around with rock stars. But beneath all the glamour these guys are actually operating two very low-tech businesses."
Tags: apple music business itunes strategy
A breakdown of the different types of networkers: The "agenda", "pitch", "rolodex", "connector", "wanna be my friend?" and "personal relationship".
Tags: networking communication
Google Maps + Google Video + Mashup - Claude Lelouch's Rendezvous
Google Maps mashup that follows Claude Lelouch's Ferrari around Paris.
Tags: video mashup google maps paris cars
A Rat With a Whisk and a Dream
All about the culinary realism in Pixar's Ratatouille.
Tags: food animation movies nytimes restaurant
"David Pogue [of the New York Times] ditches his old cellphone for the iPhone in this sing-a-long sequel." Who said the old gray lady can't get down and have fun sometimes?
Tags: nytimes iphone video funny gadgets
Artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck turn a house into an odd work of art.
Tags: art architecture
How to hire the best people you've ever worked with
Some tips on how to hire for startups.
Tags: interviews jobs business tips
"street mining is pretty simple: once a month a bunch of people get together and go walk the streets. each month is guided by a different person showing off their favorite gems. anyone's invited, so why not come exploring?"
Tags: nyc
"Bottled water in America is generally less healthy than tap water, extraordinarily more expensive, and far more destructive to the environment."
Tags: water environment
Mika Brzezinski of MNSBC rips Paris report
"MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski refuses to talk about Paris Hilton as a *Lead Story* on the Morning Joe show."
Tags: video youtube journalism celebrity culture
"To my mind Graphis Diagrams has to be one of the seminal publications on diagrams. Less acedemic than Tufte, this book showcases a wealth of styles from the crazy to the intensely Swiss. Here are some of my favourite parts."
Tags: books design inspiration visualization
Flip text upside down. Sweet.
Tags: fun
Lots and lots of nicely designed business cards.
Tags: businesscards design gallery inspiration
"Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre." - Joe Klein
Tags: quotes
A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease
"Bush, Grasping for Answers and Fixated on Iraq, Remains Resolute"
Tags: politics psychology history iraq war
Apple's iPhone and Social Proof
"When we see so many people going out of their way to do something that we may have been wondering about, it surely makes us more likely to do it ourselves."
Tags: design psychology
Benjamin Palmer talks at Cannes
"Now, the competition is not another ad, it’s everything. You’re five minute experience has to be better than anything else someone could be doing with their life."
Tags: marketing brandedutility advertising attention
"A system like this, which is able to predict what I would like based on the likes and dislikes of people I know, might be called 'collaborative micro-filtering.'"
Tags: socialsoftware recommendation relationships influence community
After seeing the woman who stole her identity in a Starbucks she chased her down . . . totally crazy.
Tags: identity crime strange sanfrancisco privacy security
Le Monde Diplomatique Redesign
By Spiekermann: "Le Monde Diplomatique appears worldwide in 20 languages and 30 countries and has more than 1.5 million readers."
Tags: newspapers design inspiration
"As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else . . . It's called the internet . . . "
Tags: facebook business socialsoftware internet aol
Jobs Effect 1997-2007: A Retrospective
"Now, this might sound trivial - but it's not. Revolutionaries need passion - something to commit to, and to invest in, and to belong to. People are an essential part of the DNA for revolutionary organizations."
"This is a confident design. Coca-cola is acknowledging that we all know the product, so just drink it. They've given similar treatment to the majority of the Coke line, including Diet and Zero. Simple, back to basics, pure equity."
Tags: design packaging coke branding simplicity
"Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they’d never be able to with spraypaint."
Tags: graffiti photography inspiration
"It's a brilliant strategy. And it should be a very, very familiar one - it's exactly what Apple's done to the music industry."
Tags: apple economics iphone strategy