The last time I looked the web was links. Navigate by links, get better search ranking through links, links fuel the hamsters that drive the wheels. But not if you are Gartner, who have sent a C&D to James Governor for providing a link to one of their studies. Not exactly what the reason to […]
A credit card to match your Mini
If you’ve spent time on the Mini design your own car site, you can now extend your design skills. You can now design your own mini and get it on your own personal card from Platinum Visa. Taking the user design just one step further, match everything…so all you need now is the design your […]
Make your own Ad for Kayak
Dave Weinberger links to Kayak.com, which is running a build your own ad campaign. Kayak is a travel comparison site, for flights, hotels and all the other things you need on trips. I love the way it also pulls together all the reviews for hotels as well as all the prices. The company is now […]
Sport and Barcamp
Not both together, but that is what I spent yesterday doing. First of all was the men’s final at Wimbledon (or rather the gentlemen’s singles final as it is correctly called). Enjoyed the game, especially after the first set and there was more of a battle. The US TV station look like htey love the […]
Long Tail Discussion
The Geek Dinner this evening with Chris Anderson. On a warm night, we took over the tables outside and monoplised the venue until after closing time.Chris’s talk was a short overview of his theory and then the floor was opened to questions. Both Ian and Kosso videoed the Q&A session, which is just audible over […]
Doctor Who tonight
I’ve been watching the trailers fopr Doctor Who all week, looking at the newspapers and been subject to the over the top coverage on the BBC morning show. The big finale is tonight..does Rose die or not? We know she’s going, but how. And I’m going to be on a plane! So I have to […]
MySQL goes missing
I went to write a blog post this morning only to find that all I got was error messages about the connection to the databse being broken. And according to the Control Panel, I no longer had a database..it was missing. I was pretty sure I’d not done anything too stupid, so next step was […]
Pinko Shopping
pinko Originally uploaded by RachelC. A shop in Knightsbridge that sells Pinko? No, only a clothes shop, no Pinko Marketing ideas here
Hole in the Wall
hole Originally uploaded by RachelC. I know that most UK people do actually call them a hole in the wall, but how confused must all the toursits be?
Let’s make a viral!
Adrant’s has a post about a Coke press release announcing their latest viral. As a way of trying to get the video to be viral. And I continously hear the Account teams and creatives in the agency discussing what they are going to do for the viral element of a campaign. So there is now […]
7/7/06
A year ago today, I sat in the office, the blinds all drawn following protocol to prevent glass damage if there were further bombs, trying to make sense of what was happening via the tv and the web. But even though the experience is clear in my mind, it was second hand, through the media. […]
A new Geek Dinner
It looks like Ian has done his normal superb job in organising a geek dinner. Today, this evening, he has invited Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired and author of the Long Tail. I’m lucky enough to be in the UK for this, so definitely going along.
A few more parodies
It must be the week for parodies…I’ve got a a few more just sitting and clustering up the tabs. The first takes the piss out of the US MPAA warning about video piracy – before Lay’s (un)timely demise. Unfortunately the UK version does not have a similar backing tune so may not be as fun […]
Cancelling the account
One possible measure of success is the parody. When Vincent Ferrari tried to cancel his AOL account, his recording of the reps attempts to keep him went quickly around the web. But Mark Day has now taken this and imagined himself trying to cancel a Playboy account and all the extra offers that could come […]
belly dancing
belly dancing Originally uploaded by RachelC. A morocco restaurant means entertainment. A badly taken photo from the phone in the darkness of a Moroccan restaurant as the ‘traditional;’ belly dancer entertains the crowd. She managed to get half of the table up and dancing (there is a video if I can get it off the […]
London 2012 a year on
The news comes through Originally uploaded by RachelC. A year ago a colleague and I wandered down to Trafalgar Square to watch the announcement about who would host the 2012 Olympics. The place was packed and had been filling up for hours. As the announcer stated London the place erupted with cheers and claps and […]
Amanda Deboomed
Amanda Congdon has apparently left Rocketboom and from the sound of it is not too happy with the split. The main site just has archives and no current show. (Update – the Rocketboom site is currently showing a statement about Amadna wanting to move to LA to pursue other opportunities, a slightly different version to […]
Community Content
The rise in cameraphones/videos, desktop publishing and the ease of adding content to the social network sites such as myspace and bebo is driving the internet hall of fame. You can be forever famous for 15 people through your prose, spoken word or mimed dance video. And there seems to be an evergrowing appetite for […]
Germany 0 Italy 2
Wow. Great game Good football between the 2 sides, a ref that ikept the game going and ignoring any play acting, just a demostration of footballing skills. The airport lounge on Sunday had Saturday’s papers, all full of stories about how great the England team were and how they had a brilliant chance of going […]
Heatwave
I got back from New York to find Britain in the midst of a heatwave. Not that it is too much hotter than New York, and far less humid, but this is the UK – we really don’t do extremes. The weather reports have been giving out advice on how to cope with the wether, […]