Widgets, Dials, Switches and More
Yesterday I was looking for some pictures of ‘counters’ to use in a presentation, Nik sent me this blog: No Ideas But In Things It’s a blog of photos about real-world interface elements. Incredibly single-minded and focused. But for me…
Bill Banned This Photo
Doesn’t that look like the most amazing sandwich you ever saw? Take it from me, it’s an amazing sandwich from an amazing shop. Bill’s in Brighton (there’s a branch in Lewes too but I’ve never been to that one. If you’re ever in the area…
Babycham Trainers – A Brand Extension Too Far?
That’ll be a yes then
Searchmash (from Google)
I think I’ve found the perfect search engine. Or pretty close anyway. It’s SearchMash. If you look at the T&Cs it’s a product of Google Inc. If you do a search you get Google-like results. Apart from a couple of handy little differences…
10 Reasons Why Digital is Better Than Advertising – Number 7
Actually I’m not sure that working at somewhere called Dream Digital, Stick or RazerBlade, is necessarily any better than having to answer the phone: “Good afternoon, Benson, Christ, Smith-Fellow, Hasbeen and Shagalott”. But the point is…
10 Reasons Why Digital is Better Than Advertising – Number 6
It’s interesting to see the difference between digital people and advertising people right now. There’s a whole lot of smugness going on. Ad people are smuggly going “we’ve got the clients” ears (hopefully not in boxes in a gangster way…
Toronto Zoo Again
After Jealous Animals, a site I blogged about before, comes Bugsrock the tale of some cool cockroaches. Toronto Zoo do good stuff again. I can imagine kids and adults loving their work in equal measure. Which is surely the aim of Zoo…
More Virgin Media Moaning
I thought it’d had all been sorted out after my last set of ranting. But it would seem not. I’ve now been cut off. Or at least TV and phone have, broadband (oddly) still seems to be working. As before I’m not going to let this rant pollute…
Food and Music
Is this a new food show format? Or perhaps M&S could quit the food-porn ads and do this instead ;-) And while we’re on the topic of music and food, in case you’ve not seen it:
10 Reasons Why Digital is Better Than Advertising – Number 5
As conventional advertising revenues decline, programme makers have less and less cash to spend. So TV gets more shit, so fewer people watch it so ad revenue goes down again. Conversely the web’s audience is steadily increasing in volume…
Everybody Loves a Secret
Secrets are cool. Every single party in London now seems to be held in a secret venue (even though you can buy tickets at Ticketmaster).
10 Reasons Why Digital is Better Than Advertising – Number 4
Success in network media isn’t about ego. No one cares who you are, or what you’ve done before – unless you’re Jonathan Harris or Joshua Davis ;-) Audiences care about whether they like your thing or not. More honest and ernest cultures…