Jim Wolff, man
Delicious digital morsels served on a crisp bed of verbiage, sprinkled with freshly picked links and lashings of multimedia goodness. Occasionally.
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Jim spends his days as a digital guy at The Leith Agency, spare minutes spinning Leith Records and nights howling at the moon. All views expressed are mostly none of his own.
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New iamamiwhoami video
Two years into their wonderfully-orchestrated Campaign of Mysterious Oddness, those iamamiwhoami videos keep on...
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A very compact summary of design elements, in under 3mins: The Fundamental elements for design summarizes. - Erica Gorochow (via @Core77)
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Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something...
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©Georgia Kemball
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n Degrees of Philosophy.
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and...
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Style Hatch Theme UpdatesEarlier today major updates just went live for all six of the Style Hatch premium Tumblr themes. Now all of the themes...
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Carl Sagan.
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Look again at that dot....
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Dear Tumblr
If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve...
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What gives?
This Wednesday I’ve been kindly asked by Data Discoveries and Perspective Partners to come along to the Radisson in Edinburgh’s Royal...
#Acronymwin: PDF Stands For …
Ever wondered what PDF stands for? Well now you know.
Font used is Orator Std.
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#AcronymWin is a series of images unveiling the mysterious contents of acronyms. (Shorten it to #AW if you want to go all meta and make an acronym about acronyms)
Got an acronym you’d like to expose? Hashtag it and let it loose.
Then try saying “acronym” 10 times. Sounds odd doesn’t it.
Smartphone penetration in US, UK, China and India
I’m often asked how many people in the UK and beyond actually have smart phones. Well know you (and I) know. China is blasting ahead…
From the excellent OurMobilePlanet.
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Nod to @blondedigital and @rmmarshall
OpenIDEO’s Concept Collaboration Map
:: Liking OpenIDEO’s interactive thing for concept mapping and collaboration. That is all.
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. | |||
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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. | |||
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| “ | @jimwolffman hear hear | |||
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| “ | @allytibbitt @andrewburnett @jimwolffman but they’re so damned attractive ;) | |||
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| “ | @jimwolffman yeah. But I hack mine https://twitter.com/#!/DaveSapien/status/102039447239008257/photo/1/large | |||
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| “ | @jimwolffman *raises hand* For the @edfringe daily timetables of the free performers on the Royal Mile. Other than that, no. | |||
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| “ | @jimwolffman Agreed! It’s a silly, silly, overhyped technology. | |||
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| “ | @jimwolffman We would like a QR code on every page of our w… no, only joking. | |||
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| “ | @jimwolffman Not a fan of QR codes. Wish they would just leave us all alone, ha. | |||
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| “ | @jimwolffman I have a good old rant every time they get brought up in a meeting, pointless technology at the moment | |||
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| “ | @jimwolffman My dream is to one day create a series of QR codes that all lead to different questions in a facebook quiz. | |||
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Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard - Slides in 3 Minutes (by @Mikekus at Carsonified)
Awesome insight into the work of a very talented individual.
VOTE DEAN CAUVIN
Leith was recently asked by the Dean and Cauvin Trust to help them win a National Lottery Good Causes Award for their work with vulnerable young people in Edinburgh.
They originally started assisting orphans on the Royal Mile way back in 1733, and currently work to prevent homelessness and the dangers which go with it, helping vulnerable young people to live independently and happily.
To help them continue their brilliant work by winning Lottery funding, we produced this short film to help spread the word. We’d massively appreciate it if you could take 30 seconds to vote for them here and spread this video far and wide via social networks, email and carrier pigeons.
The video was inspired by the excellent 500 People in 100 Seconds, and features the doubly excellent So Much For Love, by Gramatik (free download here).
:: How to make a captivating presentation
Ever been killed (or killed someone else) with a weighty PowerPoint, or even Prezi? See above for simplicity condensed.
Though if this was a slide it would break it’s own rules.
From 99percent
