I’m going to be at Carson System’s Future of Online Advertising over the next 2 days so I was checking their website. Not sure whether they had a timed page or if someone made an error promoting to live, but they still had all the faux latin on the site. It’s better this morning though. […]
MySpace design
Take a look at this MySpace profile from Alan Marchman to see what you can do with the system if you really try hard. (thanks David)
NY Tech Meetup
I went along to the NY Tech meetup last night and had a good time. Five short presentations from companies in the NY area, plus a couple of extras from James Hing of Hot or Not (who I also met with on Monday at an IAB event) and Dave Weinberger who gave a 10 minute […]
Do you speak kitteh?
The Globe and Mail, the Toronto paper, had a lovely piece on Thursday about the rise of kitteh, the ‘language’ found on the lolcatz images and the derivatives that have sprung up. Unfortunately I left the paper in the hotel and it’s behind a paywall on the site, although the article does appear to be […]
Behind the Buzz posts
If you’re not reading the marketing stuff on behindthebuzz.com, here’s some posts from the last few weeks you may be interested in: Mesh talks: Building a community, teaching new markets old tricks and an interview with Richard Edelman. Heinz have a new ‘create your own TV ad’ competition, but is it as effective an engagement […]
London 2012 Logo
The perils of user generated content, originally uploaded by Martin Deutsch. Cost of the Olympics: 9.36Billion GBP Cost of the New Logo: 400k GBP BBC news (and website) displaying a goatse reference: Priceless
Maid of the Mist
IMG_7171.JPG, originally uploaded by RachelC. I took a bus trip down to Niagara Falls today. A wet trip on the Maid of the Mist to get close to the falls, definitely a trip to take. An easy experience, no queues or anything for me, although I think I got there before the school groups as […]
Flickr loves you
isn’t that nice 😉
Loren Feldman
loren Feldman, originally uploaded by RachelC. Loren pulling a serious face at dinner last night. The photo where he was smiling was just a little too manic!
Mesh and Craigslist
Building a Web Business Mark Evans talks to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster. Q: How do you guys operate? A: we have been in the same place for 7 years, we have 24 employees, 2/3 tech, rest customer service. we don;t try and give any message, the site is all about the users and it is […]
Mesh and The Future of Entertainment
The Future of Entertainment – “The People Formerly Known as the Audience” Jian Ghomeshi talks with McLean Mashingaidze-Greaves, Amber MacArthur and Ethan Kaplan. This primarliy focused on music..and DRM Jian: what is the biggest change in the last 12 months? Ethan: record sales are down, did not recover after holidays this time; there has been […]
Mesh and Pros vs Amateurs
Pros vs. Amateurs – the War for Attention Jon Dube talks with Paul Sullivan, Steve Herrmann and Tony Hung. Jon: so one of the issues is control and who controls the content. with the BBC, the BBC have the final say, with Paul, there are a series of editors, with Tony, anything goes. Paul: we […]
Mesh and Should Old Media Be Afraid of New Media?
Live Blogged Notes Barbarians at the Gate – Should Old Media Be Afraid of New Media? Mark Evans talks with Rachel Sklar, Cynthia Brumfield and Loren Feldman. mark: things are changing; I used to be in newspapers, I still read them…papers are laying off people, they can’t get revenue from online. Rachel: the laying off […]
Mesh and Philanthropy
I’m here at the Mesh Conference, having flown up this morning. Travel meant I missed most of the conversation with Mike Arrington except for some of the Q&A. From some of the replies, I’m guessing many of the questions had been asked before; the biggest reaction was due to a question from a representative of […]
Dan Hon looking for work
Dan Hon, who I met at SXSW when he was talking on a panel about ARGs, is leaving Mind Candy, the company behind Perplex City. He’s been involved in building some of the more interesting online experiences that I’ve seen and is now looking for the next big thing. Anyone need somebody like that?
Brummie Girls
The most read BBC article at the moment is a piece entitled Brummie girls ‘not pretty enough’. Despite the local antipathy that I should be exhibiting to my Midlands’ neighbours (I’m a Black Country girl), I think it should really read ‘Brummie girls too intelligent to enter beauty contest’ 😉
Brain Hacking
After Frisbee on Saturday, it was back to Bre’s loft for barbeque, a pretty quiet affair with the holidays and people being away. Between burgers and beers, I did get to try out the Brain Machine, “It flashes LEDs into your eyes and beeps sounds into your ears to make your brain waves sync up […]
Resource hunt heating up
It looks like there is an hot market for digital advertising people; I’ve had 3 calls already this week for various roles, although none of them are much use to me as they don’t come with a visa. Anyone looking for media director, online account directors, worldwide directors of online strategy etc who can work […]
View from bar
View from bar, originally uploaded by RachelC. Last night I went to 230 5th Avenue where they have a gorgeous rooftop bar with this view of the Empire State Building. In the open, comfy seats and you can get blankets if you are cold. The food and drinks were good, if rather expensive. However, the […]
Wifi fears
There’s a little bit of a kerfuffle in the UK at the moment over stories that wifi may be harmful to you; Panorama, usually a serious programme appears to be running a story about a study they did to asses radiation levels of wifi in schools. Some calmer voices are entering the story and stating […]