Archives for 2008

Viral marketing attempt by MotorolaPosted on November 25, 2008

Over at BoingBoing Gadgets, Joel has a hilarious post on a viral marketer trying to do some underground marketing for Motorola - but he’s so totally clueless he’s become a joke.
Some of his classic comments - and gosh, doesn’t it make me want to go and check out the Krave.
I’m so glad my [...]

Tags: Marketing

The Pedestrian ProjectPosted on October 28, 2008

A piece of street art just tickled my fancy. Called the Pedestrian Project, it’s an ongoing street art project involving dressing up volunteers as stick figures from street signs, then walking around New York.

I really love this project, it’s one of those artworks that makes you smile and makes your day a little bit [...]

Tags: random thoughts

Born everywherePosted on October 19, 2008

The Guardian has a great interactive special on children born in every country in the world who now live in England.

It is incredibly well researched and it looks like a lot of time and energy has gone into this project.
Some of the comments from the kids are hilarious (gotta love the point of [...]

Tags: Cool websites, random thoughts

Flickr launches new homepagePosted on October 16, 2008

Flickr blogged a few weeks ago about a major design change to the flickr homepage, and it just launched today.

It has some pretty big interaction design changes - they have now combined all the latest activity, so new comments/favourites/notes/tags on your photo show up in the same area as comments you’ve made on other [...]

Tags: Design, Information Architecture

Like maps? In Sydney?Posted on October 13, 2008

My brother Steve has organised Australia’s first Ignite event, Ignite Spatial, coming up on Wednesday 12th November at the Occidental Hotel on York St, Sydney.
What is Ignite? It started in Seattle by O’Reilly and it’s a night of presentations and entertainment. Each presenter has 5 minutes and has 20 slides - each slide goes [...]

Tags: events, innovation

Surprise-delight from Royal MailPosted on October 12, 2008

The Independent has a lovely article about an artist who tested the Royal Mail in the UK by posting letters to herself with the address as puzzles, maps, dot-to-dot pictures, crossword clues and anagrams.

I love this part.
Among the initial batch of envelopes was a letter with the address written in mirror writing. But [...]

Tags: random thoughts

Deaf special on the GuardianPosted on October 9, 2008

The Guardian’s G2 section today is a special on Deafness and it makes for really interesting reading.
They have 8 articles written from different perspectives and on different angles about being deaf. I first learnt of the difference between Deaf and deaf in Lisa Herrod’s article on A List Apart, which is excellent reading.
I [...]

Tags: random thoughts

NABPosted on

You’ve probably reached this page as you’ve read about the NAB social media experiment.
Molt:n has decided to take this post down due to the resulting media shitstorm - this little blog post was blown out of proportion. Nothing to see here - how about you go and see some kittens instead?

Tags: customer experience, transparency

A beautiful and tragic Flash piecePosted on October 7, 2008

The BBC has put together a brilliant Flash piece around the timeline of British police shooting innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes after the London bombings in 2006.

It’s a fantastic use of Flash, incorporating maps, story-telling, photographs and CCTV footage of the incident, as reported in the trial of the police officers. It’s [...]

Tags: Speaking engagements, innovation, politics

Web 2.0 explainedPosted on

The best explanation I’ve seen.
via Jessica Hagy.

Tags: social networking