It has been over a decade since I left Merseyside to move down to London. During this time some things have changed. None more so than Liverpool Lime Street. The formerly grimy station has had a makeover. An independent coffee shop that any city would be proud of sits between platforms 7&8 with bacon rolls [...]
Sephora “vending machine” at airport, originally uploaded by Salim_Mitha. Salim took a picture of this cosmetic vending machine at Dallas Fort Worth airport which I geeked out on. Whilst the brand is owned by LVMH it sells cosmetics in JC Penney, so no brand manager having to worry about providing an appropriate luxury experience via [...]
tweetaways.com – an easy way to pick a random twitterer who tweets a specific phrase Postling – ping.fm with scheduling I, Cringely » Carried Away – legislation aimed at hedge funds provides temporary issue for VCs. The Big Shift: Moving to LTE From WiMAX Putting Online Privacy in Perspective – O’Reilly Radar – Tim O’Reilly’s [...]
The heart of Birkenhead has developed some new contradictions. Housing and buildings are being demolished and then promptly replaced with bland apartment blocks. Given that much of the brick work was much better in the Victorian houses that the apartment blocks replaced. My Dad told me about flats for homeless people being built that required [...]
Its hard to think now that ‘Made in Germany‘ did not stand for excellence, especially when we think about brands like Zeiss, Leica, Miele, Siemens and Daimler-Benz. But at the beginning of the 20th century ‘Made in Germany‘ stood for cheap and tasteless products. China is in a similar situation, despite being the workshop of [...]
I drove back to see my parents in Liverpool and used a satellite navigation system on the journey for the first time (despite the fact that the route is something that I know by heart). I found that the device changed my driving style in subtle ways. I relied less on road-markings and found the [...]
US lawmakers target prepaid mobile anonymity – forget about getting a local SIM for when you travel to the US in the future. You can anonymise SIMs just like bank accounts taking them over from overseas students who go back home EETimes.com – Will proteins revolutionize computing? Viewing a website is a ‘transactional decision’, says [...]
CNet had an interesting article on how the US version of Smirnoff Ice had become part of university fraternity house culture in the US. In a move that would have made the Portman Group cringe, fraternity members have a drinking game. According to The Awl the rules are straightforward: …hand a Smirnoff Ice (the warmer/more [...]
Don’t Blame Apple for Its Music Monopoly. Blame the Big Labels. | AllThingsD Time to Get Your Game On With Zynga and Yahoo! | Yodel Anecdotal – interesting move that diversifies Zynga beyond Facebook Lady Gaga’s Manager: We Make Music Videos For YouTube – YouTube killed the MTV star? No Robots Allowed | Search Engine [...]
I have been having conversations over the past few months. with a number of people who talked about video as the panacea of social media, many of whom struck me as being driven by a televisual vision of the future a la Max Headroom, or that bit in Back To The Future were the 1950s [...]
Left Foot Forward asked me to critique the broadband plans within the new UK government administation’s programme at the end of the last week. It seemed timely to wrap this in with a quick post-election review of the digital economy act. When I kicked the tyres I found that it was essentially more of the [...]
Platform Wars: The Next Generation « The Jiveman: – nice perspective on iPhone and iPad platforms The dark side of PR [Monocle] – ‘PR people help build dialogue between corporations or political leaders and the media; they are an essential tool for transparency in business and government‘ White House ‘West Wing Week’ Videoblog Goes Behind [...]
I was in Gosh! Comics and decided to take a punt on a book based on its cover. That book was The Winter Men by John Paul Leon and Brett Lewis. Leon and Lewis shake up the traditional superhero canon by basing their story in the post-communist Russia. The main protagonist is a former special [...]
I love the introduction which outlines the skewed nature of the information and the scope of David’s video. If only the media were so honest.
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