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PSP vs. DS
There appears to be some debate about the relative superiority of the Nintendo DS and Sony’s PSP. Unusually for this kind of online debate, the quality of the language is very high.
So exactly how useful are peer-reviews?
I was gonna get this sexy-looking piece of kit but darn, look at those reviews, one guy is saying it’s great, the next it sucks… Anyone had a go out there wants to point me in the right direction?
The language of co-creation;-)
With all those “experiences of one” going on out there it gets ever more difficult to know what people are talking about. Check out this comment on a psp-tagged page
FMCG Blogging
Good piece on FMCG blogging over at Positive Impact (one of Hill & Knowlton’s Collective Conversation channels)
Tags playing nice with taxonomy
University of Pennsylvania are introducing a tagging system to complement their library’s traditional structure:
British advertising
When Daniel and I were very young junior art directors pounding Manhattan pavement armed with our absurdly large black boxes in search of our first job in advertising, all we could talk about was British ads. It w...
Riding with Robots
Browsing the Apple website in search of support details and came across this
Picture stuff,Doing something useful with the N70…
Just uploading the sys file to my N70…alebic.net � flash, flash lite, multimedia and all related… ;-)
Techno-bollocks,BBC mobile news
Been playing with the Flash client for BBC News. It’s another example of a technology maturing and converging to the point where it just works. I think this longtime Flash-avoider may have found a new friend in Fl...
Techno-bollocks,Holiday (at last)
Mucking about in the Pyrenees. On holiday and offline (largely). Back on Monday:-)
Family,So is it still a meme the second (or third) time it comes around?
Remember the old corporate anthem, Our vision of global strategy by good old KPMG? It established the corporate anthems meme (it was Chris Raettig who started the meme proper…) which ran and ran with contributions...
KG800 chocolate phone
Hey, I finally figured out what to do with the KG800 chocolate phone the lovely people at Hill and Knowlton sent me a few weeks ago. I think I’m going to shoot some videos on the theme of objects of desire and see...
Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
Playing with etsy.com Check out the “shop by colour” interface, just lovely…
Techno-bollocks,Traceroute + Google local -- -)
Another fine 2.0 app:http://www.codefromthe70s.org/traceroute.asp
Techno-bollocks,The French
Bloody French street theatre… I was merrily on my way to an event at the ICA this morning when this large wooden spaceship crashed out of the sky and gouged its way deep into the tarmac of Regent Street.
Google AdSense Account Disabled (4)
Billy just sent me a link to a great piece on Google’s total unaccountability.
Cadbury creme egg cake
Mainly I'm telling you this because it permits me to use the word "viscosity" and I never get to do that.
Creationist bollocks
So somebody tell me how the creationist mafia is managing to skew Google’s video search results? It seems like whatever you search for on video.google the results are at least 60% creationist films. Weird.
Techno-bollocks,Tuesday morning ponderings
When did IT become IS?The bad guy from Goldfinger apears as the prince of Vulgaria in Chitty-Chitty-Bang-BangI interviewed a guy who worked in a bottling plant the other day and he keeps a blog, uses a Symbian cam...
Now this is bloody fantastic! (bis)
Prolific Web2 blogger Dion Hinchcliffe comments on the Tahoe campaign fallout (The Web-Powered Control Shift: Social Computing (web2.wsj2.com)) and reading his blog–actually, I tend to spot his awesome graphics on...
Now this is bloody fantastic!
American car company Chevy decides to let folks create their own Chevy ads (very zeitgeisty dear, well done…) and then this nice man decides to use the same tool to point out how evil the SUV is.
Priceless
Been doing some research on the old co-creation thing for a presentation at work and came across Mastercard’s priceless site. The site gives you two videos to watch (they don’t work on Mac/Firefox) and then asks y...
Magistrates court
Well, am on the train back to London after an expensive and frustrating day in Wiltshire. Back when I was commuting to Salisbury I picked up a speeding ticket and looking at the evidence paperwork the rozzers sen...
Spout.com
Playing with Spout – very interesting. If you’ve ever had an opinion about a film you’ll love this…
RunDMC
Flicking through coverflow this afternoon found a copy of RunDMC’s Raising Hell which I thought I had deleted ages ago.