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Archive for December 2010

Fat Boy Slim’s new year’s mix

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I like Rachel Botman on collaborative consumption | 想法

Interesting presentation on our willingness to share and the concept of collaborative consumption.

Kevin Kelly on the progression of technology | 笔者交谈

Wired founder Kevin Kelly has written a new book What Technology Wants, which funnily enough on my reading list. I am still in two minds whether Kelly sounds like a burnt out hippy with neurons fried by too many psychotropic substances, or an academic trying to make sense of technological development.

I like: Nokia 5110 | 产品设计

Sometimes you come across a design touch that gives a real idea of the people who made the product and makes the product even more valuable in your estimation. I never owned a Nokia 5110 because at the time I rocked Ericsson in the late 1990s; but occasionally I used one of the office pool [...]

Sean Combs on social skills

Nice humourous video for Cîroc vodka by Sean Combs. He is smart enough to use his own persona as a foil. Kudos to Lulu Chang posting at WWYMD By the time is published I should be landing in Hong Kong and will then cross the border to Shenzhen. Looking to catch up with interesting people [...]

Cultural confusion

Back in 80s and the early 90s there was a time when logos were transformed and parodied. Desktop publishing tools and Photoshop opened up whole new areas of creativity and empowered satirists everywhere. Stüssy did the linked back-to-back double-S logo as a riff on the iconic Chanel logo, market stalls had ‘adinuff’ t-shirts, Coca-Cola was [...]

Random but interesting video

I think that this was shot at an art exhibition on Shenzhen, it also explains where the Silver Surfer came from ^_^

I like: Garr Reynolds | 表达技巧

Great video on doing great presentations from Garr Reynolds aka Presentation Zen. Although this comes across less as Zen and more like a stream of consciousness to make try and make it conversational. But it seems like a bit of a struggle.

Links of the day | 在网上找到

Beluga: Free, Private Group Mobile Messaging – could be handy for PRs working on conferences | press events etc Senseihaus – hacks for the SL DZ1200 turntables and DJ tools CDs MixesDB – The Database for Mixes – a Wikipedia for dance music Kapok Online Store – Hong Kong shop similar to BEAMS in Japan [...]

A quick primer re @blakei @yahoo #delicious

I have had a number of people ask me questions about Delicious and what the hell has been going on at Yahoo! following my post Why I am sunsetting Yahoo! which was linked to by The Guardian website on their Technology Blog.  I could spend forever doing this over coffee with people so here is [...]

Amazing fractal animation | 神奇的分形动画

Animation created by the distributed computing programme of a digital artist. If you want to be part of it you can download the relevant software here. Thanks to @bloodybigspider for the heads up.

Merry Christmas | 圣诞快乐

Service is going to be a bit slow for the next few days, I have a tripped out post going up later today and a bumper post dropping tomorrow which should keep you all going for a bit. All the best for Christmas and the new year.

Christmas greetings Hong Kong style

Donald Tsang is the chief executive and president of the executive council of the Hong Kong government. If Hong Kong were a separate country to the People’s Republic of China he would be a head of state. He has released this Christmas greetings video in association with MC Jin; an American-born Chinese rap artist who [...]

I like: 7Up China advert | 中国广告的 7Up

Awesome spot by 7Up that is currently doing the rounds in China. It was watched online over three million times in just three days. It’s a very different take on the 12 Monkeys idea of time travel.

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