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Despite a healthy bit of scammer bating there are still those unlucky few lured into dropping the odd £50k into some bank account in hope of a many multiple return. The 419 victims

Nearly brought a tear to my eye.

I’ve been through the Webby winners and spotted some great things but I suppose that’s not too surprising as it should be the very best the world has to offer. I was very glad to see the oddball but brilliant things still rising to the top like this great piece Iain showed me a few [...]

Elmanco does a great job pulling together the greatest creative and design blogs out there. With the help of Fubiz he’s just compiled a new and even more comprehensive list of goodies.

The Webby entry deadline is looming (25th Jan) so I wrote the following so you know why it’s worth putting something forward.

James Tindall has produced some of the most beautiful digital art projects to date and here’s another one:- Passingby. It merges footage from people’s uploaded traveling Youtube videos (either shot out of the left or the right window) and creates a never ending journey.

Poke’s rework of Spinvox’s site just went up. Very quick turn around on this great service that either converts your voice-mail messages to texts and texts them to you (useful in meetings and stuff), or allows you to call in and have your message turned to text and automatically update your blog. Nice huh.

A nicely made World Clock and counter that shows real-time growth in population, disease, war etc.

Looks like nerdy chum and comedic talent bloke David McCandless has finally released his much awaited book The Internet: Now in Handy Book Form!. I helped out on some of the gags (but I don’t know whether any made it in, particularly my gonzo porn spoof idea “Gory Hole.”)
Here’s what it says on Amazon:
Charlie Brooker, [...]

Trying to say ‘cock’ without actually using any of the common terms is a real test for spammers. But as usual, constraints spawn creativity. This one rolled into my inbox yesterday and I greatly enjoyed it. Nice, simple, figurative.
From: “Jasdeep Kiran”
Date: 13 September 2007 21:53:45 BDT
To:
Subject: xuavleb
Reply-To: “Jasdeep Kiran”
Hi nik
Any bigger [...]

If you ever wondered what the Webby Awards ceremonies were like then watch this video from this year’s events in New York.

….of digital creative work over on Crackunit

Why pay an institution to archive media from around the world when users seem to be doing it for themselves? Open source archiving I suppose it is.
Today it seems people are talking about the Sex Pistols and dipping into the collection of scraps and snippets people have found and uploaded. The piece above from a [...]

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