Running around doing all the things I do makes it hard to stop, look and appreciate things around me. Good job Reference Library does it for me, rummaging through a world of objects to find the finest, loveliest stuff.
With every problem technology solves, another is created. Engadget reports:
We’ve already seen plenty of evidence of the potential damage that sat navs can cause, but the UK’s Network Rail has now put a figure on at least some of it, saying that the devices are responsible for damaging some 2,000 bridges per year and causing [...]
Just caught this article on techcrunch about Google tweaking their algorithm to favour recency. It means things like blogs will now preside over dustier articles (e.g. wikipedia). It’s easy to see how such a seemingly small change can effect results and with it, traffic, business etc profoundly. The plethora of agencies offering SEO (search engine [...]
As a coolbrands council member I get the odd invitation to something a bit glam. Last week it was Aston Martin, inviting me up to see their new design studio in a field somewhere up the M40
Apart from drooling over some very pretty, muscular super-cars, the biggest wow of the night was the revelation that [...]
Guessthelogo. I won’t tell you my score
A nicely made World Clock and counter that shows real-time growth in population, disease, war etc.
My dad showed me American Pictures when I was a kid and I remember it had a profound effect on me. Jacob Holdt, a Danish photographer spent several years vagabonding across America in the 70’s, taking thousands of photographs of the mainly poor black families he stayed with along the way. The narratives are full [...]
So says tech-culture-guru bloke Kevin Kelly in this really interesting article.
We know people are using social networks to get laid. We know people are using these tools to gather random banana waving hoards. So it comes as no surprise that they’re also using them to coordinate after school punch-ups.
The age of the static brand is coming to an end. Organisations, companies, institutions, even charities are realizing that having identity schemes that ‘flex’ and adapt to circumstances are more appropriate in the multi-channel, multi-lingual world that brands now inhabit.
And this is just what’s happening on the surface.
Article here
See how a thing online relates to other stuff online with TOUCHGRAPH
This kind of thing seems a bit old fashioned but I really like The Age Project. Guess their age, it’s harder than you might think. Put it this way, I wouldn’t want to be a landlord trying to guess who is and isn’t of legal drinking age. I like to be reminded what a poor [...]
CDs are now engineered to be extremely loud. Sound quality suffers. This brief video shows the “before and after” effects of industry standard post-recording processing. It’s extremely disturbing what it does to your music.
The general term for this is “Dynamic Range Compression” and actually it has nothing to do with MP3 or AAC data compression. [...]