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...
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7 posts tagged crowdsourcing
TuneTug: Crowdsource Music For Your Party
Nice little app for putting together party playlists and getting your mates to vote on them. Welcome to social clubbing, where the people are the DJs.
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Via @stumac01
The state of wikipedia
To celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th year of existence, big Jimmy Wales has put together this animation (with the directorial guidance of Jess3). Being a household name now, it’s easy to miss just how gargantuan it’s become in such a relatively short space of time, with 400 million monthly visitors and 13.5 zillion entries. Long may it live.
#siteoftheday: Sparked.com
Sparked: A clever, simple, well-designed site enabling people to do “micro-volunteering” jobs for charities. A bit like Mechanical Turk for good deeds.
Interesting application of crowdsourcing for design innovation. Provided it can create enough of Win-Win situation for both students and companies it could herald the future of outsourced, crowdsourced design.
See also Crowdspring and 99Designs.
via @techcrunchUK
Another example of crowdsourcing innovation. Seems like everyone’s doing it now, even Starbucks ..
.. And in the true spirit of sharing the reward for creating good ideas, Starbucks says: “If we implement your idea, we may give you credit on the site, but we won’t be compensating customers if their ideas are chosen”. That’s nice.
via @jameselliot
Not one to go on about how well the Guardian are embracing the potential of web technologies, but here’s another simple application of web 2.0 Flickr communities for sourcing great content.
And everyone’s a winner: a community is formed around their love of British summers, photographers get their work showcased, Flickr gets more photos & users, and the Guardian gets great content, sells more advertising and lives to publish a little longer.
See more about tracking your staycation or even join the staycation Flickr group.
