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The Art of Sneaker Cleaning and Sneaker Cleaning Products
I’ve veered into silliness with trainers a few times, going out of my way to find them, spending too much money on them and hoarding them badly. I’ve always known that I wasn’t a real sneakerhead though. And I had that confirmed to me when…
Loon Dancing to Make You Feel OK
I rarely get angry. It’s not in my nature. But I got an email today that made me so angry that I really felt it, physically. The only way I could shake it off was by watching people dancing like loons. It made the bad feelings go away…
Fire Video Gets Honours, But Why?
The video from yesterday of the fire got a link from the Guardian’s News Blog. Their embedding of the video in their blog meant that the clip had over 6,000 views yesterday which meant that it got the following ‘honours’ on YouTube. I was…
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…
Skate – Nice Game, Nice Campaign
There’s a new game coming out called Skate. I think you should be able to guess what it’s about. It looks absolutely stunning, not sure that this clip will do it justice. I think they’ve also done some cool stuff with the control system by…
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…
Like 2ManyDJs (Only Better)
I’m liking the sounds of the Streetlife DJs a lot today. They’re like a UK version of 2ManyDJs only perhaps a bit more dance-edged, but still with tons of eclecticism. From their Podcast description: Stewart Rowell and Louis Gaston are…
Sometimes Titles Just Spoil Things
I didn’t really know how to title this post, if I’d given it an obvious title it’ll spoil the film… If you like what the film is suggesting have a look at this, it’s something that we can do in the UK.
No Smoking!
The UK is awash with No Smoking signs. If I was a conspiracy theorist I’d suspect that some government cronies had got the contract for the signage, they must be raking it in ;-) The only good one I’ve seen so far is this one outside a…
I Consume Therefore I Care
Those ‘I am not a plastic bag’ bags really make me sad. When they launched in the UK and created a consumer frenzy I was a bit upset. Now I read about their launch in the US I’m getting even more upset. I think it’s such a shame that the…
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…
Virgin Media Really Sucks
Above you can see the promise made by Virgin Media on their website. Below you can read about my experience and how it differs from the above. I know Virgin Media is new, and I know it’s bound to have teething problems. But there’s only so…
Get a Mac UK
Peepshow is one of my favourite comedies of the last few years, and Mitchell and Webb are inspired choices to play Mac and PC in the UK version of the Get a Mac ads. Apple (UK and Ireland) – Get a Mac – Watch The New Ads
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…
More Internet Scribblings in the Real World
What a shame. From a pub toilet near Spittalfields. Which also had the great line writ large on the wall “England isn’t competitive”. Which I thought was rather profound.
Saturday Newspaper Graphics (1 of 2)
2 very different newspaper graphics caught my eye at the weekend when I was reading the papers in the pub. Firstly this infographic from the Guardian, it shows which European countries people Polish people are emigrating to. I looked at it…
WhenWeRollWeRollBig.com
A response from the Agency.com camp regarding the Subway video. It’s basically saying: “we did it, we got people talking, that’s the whole point”. I’m sure the debate will rage on around whether this is just a good piece of…
Where I work is OK
Poke have just been rated the top Digital Agency in the UK by Revolution Magazine. Actually more importantly we weren’t rated by the magazine, but by clients (as reported in Revolution Magazine). This is the second time in 2 years that…
BT luvs Bebo
TechCrunch report: Bebo Shuns $550 Million Acquisition Offer San Francisco based social network Bebo, which recently raised $15 millionfrom Benchmark Capital, rejected a £300 million ($552 million)acquisition offer from British Telecom…
12 Reasons Businesses Don’t Blog
Useful list at eConsultancy of 12 reasons why UK businesses don’t do blogging. Some good thought in there.
Turn Yahoo RED and Raise Money
American Express RED are trying to rasie £10k to fight AIDS in Africa today. All you have to do is click on a banner on the front page of Yahoo.co.uk (and it doesn’t even take you anywhere!). Each click raises 25p. Click here to do it!…
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy Video
Cool Hunting blog the Gnarls Barkley video for UK chart smash number one hit – Crazy. It’s top. A really simple idea beautifully executed. Based around a morphing set of Rorschach ink blots it’s a worthy accompaniment to the track. I don’t…
Webby Awards
This year’s Webby Award winners have just been announced. And I’m chuffed to say that Poke have managed to bag a couple. One for Talking Point for Orange, and a People’s Voice for Feed Me Better for Jamie Oliver. I’m personally really…
User Generated Content
Well this is the reality of it. This lovingly crafted piece of home-made UK hip-hop has spawned absolutely loads of mashups / remixes / re-edits. Just shows there’s nowt as queer as folk eh. Oh, and just to prove that entrepreneurialism is…
First Download Only No.1
I know I’m a day late, but forgive me, I’ve been away. The BBC write about how history was made on Sunday: Crazy by Gnarls Barkley went into the UK charts at number 1. Even though it’s not even available in physical shops yet. It’s one of…
RSS what?
According to a report from Marketing Sherpa: Currently at least 75 million consumers and businesspeople in the USA and UK use RSS on a regular basis. However, depending on which study’s stats you believe, only 17-32% of RSS users actually…
BBC report on UK gamers from 6-65
From Boing Boing: BBC report on UK gamers from 6-65 – contains some amazing figures. “59% of 6 to 65 year olds in the UK are gamers. In total there are 26.5 million gamers in the UK. The average age of a UK gamer is 28 years old, and the…