Second Life Sex, Get it Here…
Yuk. I just looked at my stats. And it turns out that the Google search term that brings most people to my blog is… “Second Life Sex” Damn, I’ve just realised that by even writing the term again, I’ve probably increased my google ranking…
WikiHow Wow
Do you want to see the real face of user generated content? Or at least what happens when you open a geeky Wiki to the world. Well, you end up with… How to Make a Starship Enterprise Out of a Floppy Disk How to Make SIM Card Earrings How…
Blog Recruitment Rules, OK…
Buzz and me with our new ‘mystery’ creative director A follow up to the Poke Seeking Creative Director post… In short, rather than doing normal job advertising, or going through recruitment consultants, I wrote a ‘job ad’, then Nik and I…
Wigs Awaaaaaaay
Spotted on my way to work… Note: It’s very windy today in London
Google Maps Adventure Game for Penguin
If you’re into adventure type games. Or just want to win some great prizes. Or are a real nerd and want to see how we’ve used Google Maps as part of our quest interface. Head over to MaliceBoxQuest.com, something Poke have put together for…
I’m in Viral Shock!
Bumped into this piece for Mountain Dew over at Faris’ Blog. As I commented over there. I’m in shock. It’s a ‘viral’ that I like. And I liked it so much I passed it on. Making it really and truly ‘viral’. I’ve got to go and lie down
Wii Gets You Fit – It’s Official
Absolutely awesome. I was waiting for someone to come out with the ‘Wii can get you fitter‘ story, but I had no idea it’d be done so brilliantly thoroughly. Results: It works! With no other changes in habits a drop in weight, a drop in…
Venice Project Becomes Joost
The project formerly known as The Venice Project has now turned into Joost. It’s the latest venture from the guys behind Skype and in a nutshell it hopes to do to television what Skype did to telephones. As they put it: ‘taking the best of…
Media Organisations of the Future
Faris has a good write up of a presentation by Simon Waldman of the Guardian: What is a media company? I saw the same presentation (or a version of it) at a Microsoft day late last year. And I have to say I thought he put forward a really…
CMOs on Digital and Traditional
Following the BBH Lynx win post I thought this research into the attitude of CMOs(commissioned by Sapient) reported some interesting stuff. LIke the fact that 68% of CMOs prefer to work with multiple agencies, to derive the benefits of…
The Dumbness of Crowds
I’ve not linked to Creating Passionate Users for a while. As it’s probably the smartest blog in the entire universe I like to link to something now and again. This post on the misappropriation of ‘the wisdom of crowds’ is a classic…
Layers of History
On the way to work I noticed these vintage (1997) Orbital posters advertising the track they did for the move The Saint. I quite liked the fact that it had been buried behind something that had just been demolished. It’s like excavating…