For people in New York and not going to BarCamp, an alternative is a protest against DRM outside the Apple Store organised by the DefectiveByDesign group. Kicking of a week of activities to raise awareness about DRM. FreeCulture. and DefectiveByDesign will be teaming up to help organize this action outside Apple’s flagship store in New […]
CDX – a Roman game
Whilst in the UK, I ended up playing a BBC game based around their new series on Anccient Rome. The first episode is puzzle based, similar to a locked-room game – find the clues in the right order and work out what you need to do next. Extremly well shot and designed. If you’re in […]
Corporate Blogging Conference
On Monday, I presented at my first conference, a Corporate Blogging Conference run by BFI. It was more by default then anything else, as the organisers were contacted me originally to try and get hold of someone from the Guinness team who worked on their blog. In the end I gave a talk about the […]
Cab rides and planning
I nipped back to London for a couple of days to present at a conference. For my trip back, I’d booked a car to pick me up – my normal behaviour the last few trips has been just to get a yellow cab. With the long wait to get through immigration and then a long […]
White and Nerdy
Al Yankovic’s latest song, White and Nerdy, is all over the blogs, obviously hitting a key demorgraphic. AOL pulled the ‘World Premiere’ as it had been leaked online already – there’s currently 21 entries on YouTube for the same video. By looking at the viral video charts today, 2 of the YouTube versions actually have […]
Moo Cards
Like many others, I’ve been taking a look at Moo cards and their integration with Flickr. Love the idea so I ordered the 10 card offer that is available for Flickr Pro users to give them a go. My current cards are Streetcards, with a Hugh illustration which always get a reaction. The sample set […]
PhoneCon
Jeneane ran an interesting experiment today…PhoneCon. It was a test of the scaleability of freeconferencecall.com to see if it really did scale up to 96 users for up to 6 hours. I only managed to get into the last 15 mintues but they were fun, with story telling and songs. The system seemed to work […]
still alive…i think
I’m still here, although a little bit drowning under around 3000 emails to get through, plenty of blog posts to read, lots of illness and stress of trying to move countries. Until I catch up, here’s a meta viral about virals. Saying something similar to what I said over here. There’s even a video version. […]
Boats and Clouds
Boats and Clouds Originally uploaded by RachelC. I’m a little this fortnight. I’m volunteering at the World Rowing Championships, working in the IT section which usually means getting jounalists connected to printers. The place is pretty wired (or wirelessed) up, as long as we can keep it going when all the broadcasters really hit it.
Telling it All – a video diary
YouTube has all sorts. Miming, karaoke, comedy, rants and TV. But here’s something different, life vignettes from Peter, a 78 year widower from the Midlands (that’s England). He started an account with YouTube 6 days ago and has over 2000 subscribers. There’s no theatrics, screaming or posturing, just a man in front of a video […]
Pug Bowling
I like dogs normally, but toy dogs are generally of little brain. Here’s a video that demonstrates just that!
Appletiser Diamond Game
Appletiser (from Coca-Cola) have a timewasting game ready for you to play – and if you are lucky you can win a diamond. Based on a cross between Tetris and another desktop game (whose name I never got but I played a lot) you get a chance to play the game and then enter a […]
Tate Collections
I like the new piece of functionality and guidance from the Tate. Tate has devised a new way of looking at the Displays with a range of themed ‘Collections’. These suggest a number of personal journeys you could take, reflecting different moods and enthusiasms and revealing the extraordinary breadth of work on show. It gives […]
Tumble Dryer fun
The Editors blog over at the BBC discusses some of the curiosity stories that it has shown recently, including a firemen going for a ride in a tumble dryer. The concern expressed is that it could be subject to copycat activity. But it’s not exactly new – i distinctly remember a ‘honorary’ club at college […]
Mentos, Soda and Stormhoek
Unlike Coca-Cola, Mentos mints have embraced the idea of mixing Mentos with a variety of pops to make fountains of sticky sugar water. They are running a competition to find the best fan video, which gives the rest of us plenty of fun to watch. But Lloyd has to do it a little different. He’s […]
Living in the wrong place – E-Society Digital Rating
University College London have been researching the digital lifestyles of the British population and put them all in a nice handy tool. There are 22 categories, ranging from E-unengaged (groups that do not have access to electronic communications or technologies) to e-experts (every confidence in their abilities to undertake on-line transactions and to make full […]
Viral videos – best use of a bra in a fight
A few viral videos to look over. The first is a scene from a new movie Dead or Alive and features Holly Valance in what i think is the best use of a bra in a fightscene ever. Funny And it must be a week for bras…ScaryMovie 4 has a point and shoot game (called, […]
Barcamp London
Where has the time gone..it’s been a week since I’ve been on here. No matter..here;s something you need to sign up for quickly – Barcamp London. Taking place in the Yahoo offices during the first weekend in September, there’s a limited number of spaces which are going fast.
Open Rights Group – sign up and support
The Open Rights Group is asking you to sign up and support the work it does. Five pounds a month can help them go a long way to reach their goals: * To raise awareness in the media of digital rights abuses * To provide a media clearinghouse, connecting journalists with experts and activists * […]
Honda web only videos
Yesterday, Media Guardian (reg req) ran an article about Honda providing web only videos: “This is the start of exploring different ways to provide content,” said Rebecca Tickle, the Honda account director at Wieden & Kennedy London. This follows on from the success of Cog and Choir available. I went to take a look at […]