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Archive for January 2009

Links of the day

Obamicon.Me – Create Your Obamicon – frivolous nonsense, but cool Body of Work: Community and Social Network Research – really great stuff here for reference Research and Markets: Four Key Challenges to Face Social Computing in 2009 | SYS-CON AUSTRALIA Brandwatch: Online Reputation Management and Brand Tracking

nikeID

nikeID, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Robin and I came across this shop window display for nike ID, really like the way it explains the concept through play.

Web assassin’s list

So FuckedCompany is no more and Valleywag has been downshifted to a column on Gawker, but there is still a need for schadenfreude when some web start-ups become intimate with economic reality. I mean someone has to pay for all that online storage, bandwidth and promotional cupcakes? Normally I would run a deadpool on which [...]

Design Classic: Swiss Army soldiers knife

Swiss Army soldiers knife, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Prior to 9/11 pretty much every executive’s brief case featured a Swiss Army knife of some sort. Its iconic red plastic sides and shield in the cross logo is one of the iconic designs of the 20th century. These executive multi-tools trade on the reputation of the [...]

Links of the day

Revealed: The Times Made Up That Stuff About Google And The Tea Kettles – The Times has a Jason Glass type moment Confirmed: Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Joins Google ยป Nine on nine sixtysecondview: Sixty second interviews from pr, media and politics Split Works – Chinese digital agency 5 link building techniques | Econsultancy – [...]

Catalonia Suite Hotel, Barcelona

I came to speak at at a three day course in interactive marketing that is part of the executive programme at La Salle Business School. My colleague Leanne arranged my hotel for me. The Catalonia Suite Hotel is an ideal business hotel. It wraps travellers like me in the comforting blanket of CNN television and [...]

Links of the day

Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream – NYTimes.com T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M – interesting and arcane documents from the early ‘net

Journalistic gymnastics

Like most people in London, I hadn’t realised that the Bay Area town of Oakland had undergone rioting earlier this month triggered by the shooting of a young African American by a policeman. Tobin Harshaw picks his way through journalistic moral issues whilst trying to explore the social issues around this event. One line in [...]

The life through another’s lens

In my kitchen hangs a calendar from Swift Abrasives Limited, courtesy of my Dad who works in the plant hire industry. It features nice photography and inspirational quotes from the likes of Helen Keller and Henry Ford. So what does a calendar look like for say someone involved in the war on terror. Well we [...]

Links of the day

Five big social media contradictions and how to manage them Martin Sorrell Is A Joke And The Ad Industry Is Worse Off Than We Thought – mediabistro.com: AgencySpy Burger King bribes people to ditch Facebook friends – Brand Republic News – Brand Republic – I love the idea, would you get a large meal if [...]

Oprah Time: must-read blog

Fellow Northerner Tim Hoang has resurrected his blog Much ado about nowt, which he is posting ideas and thoughts, some of which are work-related. Even if the social media ideas aren’t your cup of tea, any blog that can have a post called Sucking C*ck for Pennies has got to be worthwhile, if only for [...]

Grokking Google

I worked on a presentation for the guys that I work with on how they could use the web to work smarter, in amongst this was research on all the different things that you could do with the Google search box. However, if there is any things that you know of that I have missed [...]

Google has changed its favicon

Google has changed its favicon, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. This is probably really old news, but I’ve just noticed that Google has changed the icon which represents its URI in the window of web browsers. Google has changed the icon which represents its URI in the window of web browsers. It has moved from the [...]

HOODS HKG

HOODS HKG, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Picture taken for me by my friend Yumei, newish store by Japanese streetwear designer Neighborhood. The store is their first outside Japan. It stands out from other retailers in the area.

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