February 2012
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Full Fat Valentines Love For Guardian Weekend
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January 2012
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December 2011
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The UK's Top Digital Trends vs Tomorrow's
It was a surprise for me, but according to the excellent Digital Life research study by TNS, the UK digital audience spend more time Internet Banking than doing anything else online. Probably figuring out how to navigate antiquated banking websites, if my own choice of online banking is anything to go by.
And here’s where the future is …
Location-based services look like the ones...
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November 2011
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From Publisher to Platform: The Guardian’s Open Platform
Over a year old, but still a fascinating look into how a newspaper business embraces new technologies using an API model. And are now in a better place a year on.
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Edinburgh Aikido Club
:: In case you were wondering, this is what Aikido looks like. As told by Edinburgh Napier media student, Joanna Jamrozy. You might even catch a peep of yours truly.
More info about classes here: http://www.edinburghaikido.co.uk
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October 2011
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Scan This: People Don't Give A Fuck About QR Codes
An extended rant about QR codes. What started as a mild-mannered rant about QR codes…“ Anyone ever used a QR code? No? Then please stop insisting they go on everything.jimwolffmanOctober 24, 2011 Got a ton of replies pretty quick…“ QuiteRedundant RT @jimwolffman Anyone ever used a QR code? No? Then please stop insisting they go on everything.andrewburnettOctober 24, 2011“ @jimwolffman...
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September 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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Skittles Brand Book
“The official sponsor of awesomeness”. Enough said.
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Open IDEO / Where people design better, together
:: This creative community of social designers, founded by IDEO’s Tom Hulme (@thulme), is a masterclass in online community design: using principles of reward and status to encourage collaboration, nurture ideas and ultimately produce tangible results. Good work.
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The Truth About Youth
:: Some interesting stuff here from McCann Worldgroup’s study of 7,000 young people around the world.
Especially how over half of 16-22 would rather give up their sense of smell than give up their technology.
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Confetti Man Dance
Here’s some multi-coloured Tuesday weirdness for you. It looks like the background to my blog just exploded on him.
Via fesetti
May 2011
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Madison Valley: Silicon Valley meets Madison Avenue
Agencies don’t always get technology, and startups don’t always get branding. So why not get them working together. So obvious it’s genius.
By @RandomCulture (via @mikecoulter)
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March 2011
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Do You Want To Hear A Beautiful Thing?
So this is how the conversation went when I went for a coffee at The Clock this morning...
Barista: (To me) Do you want to hear a beautiful thing?
Clock Dave: Hey. Not now, can't you see we're busy.
[I look around. Two people sit idling at a table. There is no one else in the queue. The rest of the place is empty.]
Me: Hey c'mon Dave. You can't piss on a beautiful thing...
Clock Dave: Fair enough. Go on then, what is it?
Barista: Ok, so I've got a five and half year old daughter, and last night she couldn't sleep. So I got a bowl of blueberries and told her these were DreamBerries. Each one has a different dream inside: that berry will make you fly, eat that one and you'll meet fairies and so on. She had a few, and fell asleep right away.
The next morning she was telling me her dreams over breakfast, still excited by the prospect of dreams in her berries.
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And if that's not a beautiful thing, I don't know what is.
February 2011
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