November 9, 2008 at 11:55 am · Filed under Everything
I’ve been looking back at some of my notes from my MA days and came across something on the origins of hypermedia and linked information.
In particular, I’d spent a lot of time looking into the peerless Vanevar Bush who had a great deal of amazing ideas but most notably (to my thinking) was his early conception of the memex - an early pre-cursor of the world wide web. A true heavyweight and a man who operated seamlessly across science and politics. His ideas of associative trails can be seen all around us - not just with the web itself but in smaller applications of his thinking with stuff like facebook, flickr, twitter etc.
And if you like that then have a go on Ted Nelson…he’s quite interesting too.
November 9, 2008 at 10:55 am · Filed under Everything
This must be the longest gap ever between posts. It’s not that I haven’t had lot to talk about, but more that I’m saying it out loud as opposed to writing it down…and that doesn’t really help. Anyhow, I’ll be back on track from now on and doing some regular posts that don’t actually involve telling you what my cat’s been eating or where I went for drink last night…I’ll bet you can’t wait. Later.
July 20, 2008 at 1:23 pm · Filed under Everything, Life
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 with charites & the one common feature with all of those events is that no matter what the mix of industries we all ended up talking to other people from our own industry. All of us…not just me.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I find it enormously valuable meeting others who work in the same industry as me (and that I professionally admire) but I would love it if the networking paid off the way it’s supposed to i.e. we meet new people who might want to work with us or hire us. Instead we share highs and lows and compare battle scars with our peers.
This isn’t a pop at the folks who organise such events (I think you do a great job) but rather a call to anybody at an event that I’m at…please feel free to say HELLO even if you do not recognise me, and I will promise to the same to the people that I don’t know.
July 20, 2008 at 1:10 pm · Filed under Everything
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 Creative.” Check the excellent Scamp blog here.
June 3, 2008 at 8:13 am · Filed under Everything
Getting on a bit but the Truth in Advertising short is always worth watching again
June 1, 2008 at 1:13 pm · Filed under Everything, Life, Stuff
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 idea.
June 1, 2008 at 12:48 pm · Filed under Everything
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’ and the 3 ordered priorities of the agency and why that works for them: 1. It’s about the work, 2. It’s about the client/agency relationship and 3. It’s about the people that make up the agency.
Interesting stuff that will resonate with almost everybody who cares about what they do, and who they do it with.
May 28, 2008 at 8:44 pm · Filed under Everything
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 the day job site. By the way we’re gearing up for a bit of a ‘realignment’ on that front…watch this space. See ya soon.
May 7, 2008 at 6:57 am · Filed under Everything
The superb Cans Festival over at flickr.
March 31, 2008 at 6:29 pm · Filed under Everything
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.
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