http://blog.likeyoulike.net Hi, welcome to likeyoulike - it's a scrapbook of what's going on in my head, and the stuff that's inspiring me at any given time. Hope you like it. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:23:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been doing a lot of it lately and over the past few days I've found myself variously at a very pleasant tea party in the Blue Peter Garden, at NESTA with folks in the film and digital industries, at a Multiplatform TV seminar and at a Media Trust event ... http://blog.likeyoulike.net/2008/07/20/industry-networking/ A Creative Director was asked to train some Account Handlers. He had them spend the morning making a model airplane. Then at lunchtime he reviewed their work. He took each plane in his hand and crushed it to pieces. "That," he said, "is what it feels like to be a ... http://blog.likeyoulike.net/2008/07/20/dealing-with-rejection/ Getting on a bit but the Truth in Advertising short is always worth watching again http://blog.likeyoulike.net/2008/06/03/truth-in-advertising/ Want to big up your Wikipedia entry in the hope of fooling everybody into thinking that you're very very nice instead of very very naughty? Well don't...unless you want your underhand tinkerings to be discovered for all to see via Wikiscanner - see this article on the BBC to get the ... http://blog.likeyoulike.net/2008/06/01/wikiscanner/ I've been a long term admirer of Wieden and Kennedy and came across this video of it's founders Dan Wieden and David Kennedy. It's an interesting piece in which they discuss the origins of W+K as well as some of the ideas they believe in, such as 'permission to fail' ... http://blog.likeyoulike.net/2008/06/01/permission-to-fail/ More posts to follow soon. been a bit quiet lately and taking in a lot of stuff by other folks. In the meantime, a bit of insight into some of the stuff I'm into at the moment can be found here http://www.netvibes.com/onefour69 - which has a lot of (unintentional) similarities to ... http://blog.likeyoulike.net/2008/05/28/its-been-a-while/ The superb Cans Festival over at flickr. http://blog.likeyoulike.net/2008/05/07/the-cans-festival/ Dropclock is an intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion.   http://blog.likeyoulike.net/2008/03/31/dropclock/ Not exactly brand new, but I've fallen in love with Kuler a nifty colour app from Adobe that lets you create and share colour palettes according to method or whimsy. You can use it online or download as an Air app or use tapp into the API for use in ... http://blog.likeyoulike.net/2008/03/30/kuler-than-the-fonz/ Looking for a way to start establishing yourself on the iPhone platform? Well look no further, as this nifty article tells you how to easily add a home screen icon that sits on iPhone desktop and links directly to your site. Nice, I thought. http://blog.likeyoulike.net/2008/03/17/add-an-icon-to-iphone-home-screen/