Eco-Shift or Greenwash? – Tamara Giltsoff (OZO Car) Brands and organizations seem to be taking up the call to ‘get green’ – but how much of this is misleading posturing? Panelists: Marc Alt (MAP), Jill Fehrenbacher (Inhabitat), This wa a general panel on sustainability and green credentials; there were a lot of examples given in […]
PSFK Conference – Dave Rosenberg
A Whole New World – David Rosenberg (JWT) What is driving the widespread adoption of video gaming and online worlds? What cultural shift is video gaming defining? I work with Dave on a day-to-day basis, so it was interesting to see what he had to say about a space we donlt spend too much time […]
Arrived in Austin
Finally arrived in Austin after a slightly delayed flight but nothing too bad. it’s lovely and warm here, the sun is out, a far different climate after cold New York. Checked in, got my badge and met up with Ewan in the line 🙂 One nice meal later, and the odd marguerita, decided to catch […]
Twitter responses
The success of Twitter is hard to define, I place it in the realm of gossip and nosiness and just fun. It looks to be struggling under the load as numbers grow, every few days it gets really wonky, but people are still signing up. Different behaviours are emerging; somewhere, someone started to use the […]
PSFK Conference: Elizabeth Speirs, Dead Horse Media
The conference opened (at the early hour of 830) with a talk from Elizabeth Spiers, founder and publisher of Dead Horse Media. Tomorrow’s Media Today – What are the key developments in media publishing in terms of genre, format and functionality? What should we be reading, watching, interacting with? 10 years ago, we were expecting […]
Too much to blog, too little time
I’ve got the last NextNY session to write up, everything from the PSFK conference on Tuesday and off to SXSW tomorrow. I feel like I’m not going to catch up. Expect variable blogging over the next week.
Events this week
Monday Night Tuesday Friday
A Taste of things to come
Just went and got my hair cut and the young lady who washed my hair congratulated on my lack of grey hairs. I’m pretty sure she meant it as a compliment.
MoMoNYC February
Mobile Monday this week was set up as a demo night, with 8 companies presenting for 6 minutes. The host (Dan?) did a brilliant job of keeping everything moving and ensuring no-one lasted longer than their allotted time. I did not make all of the presentations, but here are brief notes from those I saw. […]
BBC on YouTube
You can find clips from BBC shows on YouTube, fans putting them up to share the love. And now the BBC has done a deal with Google/YouTube to create three new channels dedicated to the corporation’s output. BBC – showing added value programming, ie the behind the scenes stuff that goes on the websites. This […]
Happy St David’s Day
Color Showdown is here
Shameless plug for a site and campaign I’ve been working on, but check out ColorShowdown.com* from Sunsilk for some fun stuff. The site taps into the blondes vs brunettes war (you don’t think it’s a war – take a look a the MySpace groups!). Not sure how many of the target audience read this, but […]
Mutual Support Group
I’ve been reading Jason Calacanis’s fatblogging drive and thought about it but it was not quite enough. Then I read Jeremy’s post on the subject and the topic on the B5Media message board which led me to traineo; looking at that app, witht he support and community aspects was enough to tip me over the […]
Venue Sought
We, (Eric and I) are trying to find a venue in New York to run some geek dinners…at least one of which will feature Ian Forrester and we’ve got some interesting people lined up for others. Looking for somewhere which has a private room (up to about 50 to start with we think), serves alcohol, […]
Viral Video Chart Widget
Getting bored at work. Looking for a few minutes of entertainment. If your poison is videos you can now get charts delivered directly your website using this handy little widget from the Viral Video Chart and you can share the list with all your friends. It’s currently running in the sidebar of this blog as […]
Pillow Fight NYC
Yesterday there was a moment of madness in the city, a Pillow Fight organised by newmindspace. An absolute blast, an urban maul in Union Square, where the cameras, both amateur and professional, nearly outnumbered the fighters.
BBC Value
Ian just posted his video from Future of Web Apps programme, where Michael Arrington suggested the BBC should be dissolved. I did some back of envelope calculations about the worth of the BBC. Let’s say that I watch 2 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. In the US, programme are […]
Don’t forget the pancakes on Jif Lemon Day
An example of a ad slogan that got into my brain years ago and has never left. But today, there’s almost nothing ‘official’ on the web about this, the only bit being on Unilever’s corporate site; so you just have to look up everyone talking about the day and not the company – or complaining […]
Mac bought
I’ve finally gone and bought a Macbook. Not yet got it up and running (won’t connect to the web) but I’ll have more time to sort this out this week.
Pushing a Community around Jericho
Over the last few days I’ve been working my way through all the back episodes of Jericho from CBS. As I usually do, I turn to Wikipedia to see if there any additional pieces of information to add to my enjoyment of the show (I’m a trivai freak at times). The show has a loyal […]