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Credit Crunch Pricing – Free Internet and Coffee!
The economies of the world may be crumbling, but on Brick Lane you can now get Free Coffee and Internet. We’ll be OK.…
Commit No Nuisance
Could be a new motto for life.…
WWF Paper Boat and Plane ‘Live’
Hoorah! The big paper plane and paper boat are real, and they’re down by the Thames. Don’t forget to sign up to lobby for a stronger climate change bill (one that includes shipping and aviation for starters) at…
Big Fire
Ooooh there’s a big fire in East London, you can see it out of our window… The Fire Brigade say: Warehouse fire – Waterden Road The London Fire Brigade has been called to reports of a fire at a warehouse on Waterden Road, East London, E15…
Does Starbucks Community = Actual Community?
I’ve got a theory. Actually calling it a theory is over playing it. It’s more like a suspicion, or maybe an inkling. Whichever of the two fits best. I’ve been into a few different branches of Starbucks recently and noticed that they’ve all…
Nike, is it Supersonic?
Right now you can’t move in London without seeing some kind of ad for Nike Supersonic. According to the blog spam I got the other day: “Nike is launching an exclusive invitation only event for 3,000 people in London to push their pace…
How Much For An Ad On A Bus in Google Street View?
If you’ve not seen it yet Street View in Google Maps is amazing. Lifehacker reports that it’s now in 15 US cities (and it’s coming soon to the UK judging by the fact that we saw a Google cam car driving round London the other day). I’ve…
My Eclectic Score is…
My eclectic music score is 90 out of 100 (according to this nifty last.fm script). It also figures out an extended list of recommended artists calculated thusly: The following script takes the 20 top artists in your musical profile from…
Toshio Iwai’s Tenori-On From Yamaha
Toshio Iwai has made a load of cool audio widgety things. The thing I know best is Electroplankton on the Nintendo DS. But he’s done lots of other stuff too. I’ve just come across his latest device to hit the streets, Tenori-On, it’s a bit…
London 2012 Shit Poster
Wow. People are still hating that logo! Saw these on Brick Lane yesterday. There’s no URL or obvious association with anything. Just a pure statement of hatred for the London 2012 Olympic Logo, nothing more.…
I Can’t Watch…
This is me presenting “10 Reasons Why Digital is ‘Better’ than Advertising” at the PSFK conference in London. I can’t even bear to hear recordings of my own voice so there’s no way that I’m going to be able to watch this… (I tried watching…
Bike Rescue – Business Genius
In stark contrast to the Rail Network’s shunning of cyclists. London based Climatecars do something really great that recognises that cyclists sometimes need help getting places. Maybe you’ve got a puncture, or maybe it’s just raining…
London of the Future
A sight that’s about to get much more common…
Trains and Bikes
Inside the brain of a rail company… Right, there’s this massive cycle ride from London to Brighton, we’ve known about it for ages, it happens every year. What should we do about it? Hmmm… Loads of cyclists are going to ride a long way from…
PSFK Today
I’m enjoying the PSFK conference in London right now. I just did my talk about 10 Reasons Why Digital Is Better Than Advertising. But you’ll all be bored sick of that by now. It was quite nerve racking. But I got through it. Hugh MacLeod…
Noise Map – A Great Idea Terribly Done
If I told you there’s a site where you can find out where to get a bit of peace and quiet in London, you might think “What a nice idea”. And it is. I was dead excited when I read about Noisemapping.org. A government department, DEFRA, have…
Rail Replacement Replacement
I stayed in London with friends on Friday night and tried to get the train back home to Brighton on Saturday. I knew there were ‘engineering works’ which meant that I’d have to brave the ‘rail replacement services’ (a euphemism for a…
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).
I Like MOMA
This is the second time I’ve said I don’t want to blog about what I had for breakfast. But in a roundabout way I’m doing it again… This morning I stopped at a little stand called MOMA at London Bridge (I have to admit the first time I saw…
Evil Recruiters
Not all recruiters are evil, but lots of them are. In my inbox today I’ve got 3 unsolicited candidates from cold-mailing (i.e. spamming) recruiters. This is bad. And it’s unfortunate for the candidates as I’m not even going to look at…
Our ‘Secret’ Creative Director
OK. It’s time. I can now finally reveal the all-new 3rd Poke Creative Director (after all the buildup). He’s the guy on the left. His name is Yacco Vijn – pronounce it as Jacko (like Whacko Jacko) Fine – pretty simple, and he claims it’s…
Snow in London
OK, so it’s hardly skiing weather. But you can actually see snow on top of stuff. Which is nice for a change. Expect stories of commutors taking 79 hours to get to work as a result
Wigs Awaaaaaaay
Spotted on my way to work… Note: It’s very windy today in London
BBH Wins Lynx Digital Account
An interesting ‘moment’ in online advertising. BBH win Lynx digital account. To my mind Dare have done some really amazing online advertising for Lynx (Feather and Blow to name but two), and I’m really surprised that the account has gone…
Tag-5-things-o-rama
OK! OK! I’m going to do it. I’m gong to succumb to the blog tag 5 things meme. Thanks to the following for tagging me. I might have missed some others (if I have let me know and I’ll add you to my thank you list). Oakie Dan Burgess @ Tap…
My Mini Adventure
I sort of wrote myself an unwritten rule that I wouldn’t blog this. But when I did a search for Mini Adventure London and nothing came up, I felt a bit bad. Mini have obviously spent a lot of money on an awesome piece of experiential…
Microsoft Live Local – Birds’ Eye View of London
I was attempting to write something about Friday’s Microsoft Day that I went to. But I visited Live Local search to look something up, then realised I could see my own house from the air, from multiple different angles. And it’s, dare I…
Trains are cool
Came across this yesterday: The London to Brighton train ride in 2 mins. Reminds me of the Star Guitar video for the Chemical Brothers by Michel Gondry. I’m not sure if the music almost sounds similar too, or whether that’s just…
I love London (a little bit)
Some of you may have seen my ‘I love London’ blog – an experiment to try to get me to love living in London a bit more. And whether having a blog that makes me look out for good things would help me to see good things. After a strong start…
My New Blog Experiment
I Love London Actually I don’t. That’s the whole point. Me and London haven’t been getting along all that well recently. So I thought I’d try a little experiement. To see if blogging about great things in London can inspire me to think…
More (poor) people using public transport
Saw this on my way to work. Unfortunately , in London, it’s probably true…
Gerffrye Museum
Domestic Archaeology at the Geffrye – I pass by this odd little museum every day on the way to work, or at least I have for the past few months since I’ve been in my new flat. I rarely look at it. And have never been in. But now I’m going…
We Feel Fine
It’s taken me a while to put together this post. It’s been sitting in my drafts folder since early last week, and in the meantime lots of you have probably seen wefeelfine.org. I’ll try to summarise why I think it’s such an important site…
Busy not blogging
I’m faced with a daily paradox at the moment: the busier I get (sometimes doing quite interesting stuff) the less time I find that I have to blog about it. I need to get better at putting aside a few minutes a day to keep the site up to…
That’s not very nice…
Spotted this on the wall of Weiden & Kennedy’s London office. Not sure I agree 100%…
Run London – RouteFinder
Funnily enough a second post about an AKQA piece of work in one day, they must be doing something right. And in this case they really are: Run London – RouteFinder. An extension of the undoubtedly great brand property Run London, this time…
Camera Fun
Had some fun with my new camera on Sunday. Found that if you set it to a really high shutter speed you can take some almost decent snaps out of a moving car window. Visit this photo set to see what my cab ride from London Bridge to Tulse…
The State of the Blogosphere
David Sifry (the founder of Technorati) gives his view on the state (and size) of the blogosphere. Some interesting numbers in there. Perhaps naively I had no idea of the scale of fake blogs as used by spammers. It’s true that you learn a…