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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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Two years into their wonderfully-orchestrated Campaign of Mysterious Oddness, those iamamiwhoami videos keep on...
A very compact summary of design elements, in under 3mins: The Fundamental elements for design summarizes. - Erica Gorochow (via @Core77)
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something...

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Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and...
Earlier today major updates just went live for all six of the Style Hatch premium Tumblr themes. Now all of the themes...
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....
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...
This Wednesday I’ve been kindly asked by Data Discoveries and Perspective Partners to come along to the Radisson in Edinburgh’s Royal...
8 posts tagged Twitter
Tableau: Physical Email
:: This is pure wonder. A table which gives you images sent via Twitter, and which scans and sends handwritten notes.
A shining example of online / offline connecting, in a similar vein to the Cypbraphon.
A sure cultural trend for 2011.
Outstanding integration of social media bits and pieces into Modernista’s main destination. You could call it the Skittles effect..
via Ahmad @ Leith
Great example of a single purpose site, knocked up in a few days, with huge viewing and virality potential. I doubt anyone ever listens to the whole song, or bothers clicking on many of the links, but as a one-off web “experience” it’s nicely put together.
Via @techcrunch.
Interesting look at how the likes of Facebook and Twitter only helped the later stages, and that email, online donations and TV ads really won the campaign.
Via @tweetminster
Brilliant crowdsourcing (or ‘tweetsourcing’) application designed to send Microsoft a clear message. This isn’t just anti-MSoft, it’s passionate users collaborating to help MSoft do a better job. If only everyone was that kind..
VolksWagen Jumps on the Twitter BandWagen - http://caseyshultz.com/vw-ad.php - via @keithstoeckeler.
Not exactly sure whether there’s any clever stuff going on under the hood - for all we know they could just generate the car choice by random - but an interesting direction into Twadvertising.
Dante, Shakespeare, Stendhal, and Joyce - all in 20 tweets or less? I might finally get a chance to get through these books.
Wonder if they’ll bring out Twitpic versions too..
Great post on the danger of jumping on the Twitter bandwagon. Looks like @habitatUK just got caught up in the spokes..
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