Well, so is the very funny David McCandless, who brings us The Internet Now in Handy Book Form, a hilarious and devastating spoof of the World Wide Web and, more particularly, the freaks and geeks who populate it (that would be us, nb). It pretty much does for the internet what Charlie Brooker’s TVGoHome did [...]
Entries from September 2007
Sick of the Interwebs?
September 26th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments
In Blogging · Networking · Social media · Stories
Digi-fiction, iBook, Novel 2.0… call it what you will
September 25th, 2007 by Matt Rebeiro · 2 Comments
In Brand innovation · Narrowcasting · New technologies · Stories
When I were but a wee nipper (which isn’t actually all that long ago) I used to listen to books on tape. They were brilliant. Bernard Cribbins read most of the ones I liked such as Treasure Island, Wind in the Willows, Famous Five et al. Whimsical journeys down memory lane aside what you’ll notice [...]
Halo, Sailor…
September 25th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments
In Blogging · Gaming · Sharing
Look, I’m as in favour of User-Generated-Content as the next journalist who can’t be bothered to write their own copy and thinks that the rantings of five racists from provincial market towns more than adequately makes up for the dearth of expertise in contemporary news media, but I can’t help but feel that the BBC, [...]
Musicovery: a late discovery
September 25th, 2007 by Iain MacMillan · 1 Comment
In Brand innovation · Networking · Sharing · Stories
Via those nice chaps at Music Choice, something that I’d missed from last year - an extension of Musicplasma that allows you to find new music via genres and moods - and then via a map of the relationships between artists.
Not quite sure why this one is resurfacing. I liked Musicplasma, but after a bit [...]
Dieter Rams’ manifesto for good communication
September 12th, 2007 by Leo Ryan · 4 Comments
In Brand innovation · Customer conversations · Stories · Storytelling
We’ve recently been looking at brand utility and how what a brand does online can be an actual embodiment of its brand values. Put simply - can brands be useful online in the same way that their products, services and brand are useful in the real world? It has started to take me down a [...]