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Working up my presentation for tomorrow's conference...no run through as yet. Risk of looking like a dumbass = moderate to high...
- 10/21, 11am
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Trying to Get Things Done. Not sure how effectively tho...
- 10/21, 3am
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Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea -- and ...
Interesting software / concept that couples an online suggestion box for ideas, with a virtual stock market. Users can buy 'shares' in an idea, driving up its value...nice for encouraging a bit of ...
As more and more people give Caffeine a whirl, the increased prominence of results from the social media sphere appears to be a widespread phenomenon. Interesting piece questioning the value of inc...
This morning at LBi we were privileged to have a visit from Magnus Larsson, a graduate architect with an amazing vision for stopping the spread of the Sahara Desert southwards - an inexorable proce...
Thanks to the very lovely Wieden+Kennedy, who kindly dedicated one of their  spanky (new?) auditoriums to screening a live stream from the TedGlobal 2009 conference, I and a few other LBi / ex-LBi ...
Thanks to the very lovely Wieden+Kennedy, who kindly dedicated one of their  spanky (new?) auditoriums to screening a live stream from the TedGlobal 2009 conference, I and a few other LBi / ex-LBi ...
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Horizonless Projections - maps that reveal more of the distance: [ http]
- 5/7, 3am
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Getting towards the end of day. Energy depleted. May have to refuel.
- 4/22, 9am
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Finally finalising our final user narratives. Done. No more updates. Final. Line drawn.
- 2/10, 11pm
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Working in Illustrator for the first time in a looooong while. It's so intuitive. Not.
- 1/27, 3am
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Feeling much refreshed after a decent night's sleep...time to figure out what we're going to be doing for the next week!
- 1/11, 8pm
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Does anyone have any recommendations for some noise cancelling headphones?
- 1/9, 8am
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Shivering my way to an umpirtant client meeting... - [ http]
- 1/6, 7am
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Having spent quite a lot of the last two years thinking about timelines, Dipity appears to be a fantastic tool for playing with your social activity across a timeline. The site also allows you to...
In one week's time I, and 11 colleagues from LBi will be travelling to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to work with Etihad, the national carrier...should be a fun trip, and I'm going to docum...
Ah, Christmas...seems so long ago now. Especially after a working week at LBi. We headed down to Fifehead Magdalen in Dorset to spend some time amongst the cows and horses - and enjoy some fine f...
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The Joy of Christmas shopping. It's all mine. No, really.
- 12/14, 2am
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Well I wish it hadn't happened, but it has. The other day at work I was checking out the prices for full frame Canon cameras and had started getting a little teeny bit interested in the Canon D5 Ma...
Interesting piece that positions traditional views of reputation against a sense of history. In a world where everything is increasingly recorded, it asks if this is more important than an ephemera...
It seems my return to blogging is out of time. The blogosphere is now rife with professional bloggers, online magazines and long-form writers, according to Wired. Instead it's much easier to post p...
An odd feeling, nostalgia. And when it's brought back by someone else's perspective I'm not sure how to react. Anyways, it was interesting to read a post on Left and To the Back about some music th...
It's been a while since I've posted to this blog, and it's time I got writing again. No excuses for why I've been neglecting it, but I guess I kind of fell out of love with the things I used to w...
So now Google jumps into the fray with their Friend Connect, a universal profile that will allow people to maintain one single profile across a number of different social sites. This concept has be...
Wow. I happened across a white paper produced by IBM & Cambridge University, with the title 'Succeeding Though Service Innovation'. It's a first stab at trying to draw some shape onto what is e...
Hot on the heels of my post about My Starbucks Idea, I thought I'd share a couple of pieces of Brand 2.0 love that I've come across recently: The church of co-creation and community, Communities ...
This is fabulous example of a global company reaching out to its customer base and giving them the opportunity to share their on how to reinvigorate its customer experience. Of course, the is only ...
The team here at LBi have been working with Multimap to make improvements to the site, and start the job of integrating with Microsoft's Live Search product. It went live yesterday, and among the...
My colleague Warren Hutchinson posts about an honourable mention at the Webbys for the work that LBi did in helping Multimap redesign their site. I'll leave it to him to big the team up, but just w...
I spent Easter at an amazingly quiet, relaxed seaside town in Cornwall - called Polperro. Fantastic atmosphere, friendly people - and of course some great scenic walks along the coastal path. More...
"the eerie and inexplicable sadness that lives at the heart of certain works of art" Nick Cave, summing up what he looks for in music. A cool Guardian piece on this 'feeling'. Wow. Inexplicable s...
I had the sudden realisation, the other day, that my current daily routine takes in a number of different statistical feeds - and this set me to thinking that *this* is part of the reason tha...
"It sort of sounds cool," Watts says, tucking into his salad. "But it's wonderfully persuasive only for as long as you don't think about it." Duncan Watt's provides a counterpoint to Malcolm...
Apparently...68% of American's feel anxiety (PDF) when their access to the network is cut...but their reasons vary as the study looks at different age groups...Via Engadget.
...and allow you to keep in touch with what's happening across all of your different social networks - via your mobile phone. Really interesting - I just hope they have web integration as well as i...
I had a fun wander around Hampton Court at the weekend. I don't normally go for the whole royalty thing, but I was struck by how the whole place smelled of power. Interesting that on the way into t...
Guy Hands is nothing if not consistent. His latest take on the Artists & Repertoire function of EMI is that it's full of lazy people that don't add much value to their business - and ...
OK this isn't 'new' news, being as it was announced last week, but I was jetlagged then, OK??! This is hugely important in the move for portability of data across different networks. OpenID is an o...
AAAArrrgggh. While I completely agree with the majority of this article on the increasing blend between home and work, work and learning - and I've been advocating many of its for some time, it doe...
"Different things to different people at different times."Robert Hardie, Content Strategy Director for  Northcliffe Media, talking about his definition of the variables one has to play with when co...
 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/vAVlRoGW5wc&rel=1]I'm finding the recent daily news feed from EMI HQ fascinating - every day brings more news about artists striking, or choosing to release t...
Just back from a trip to Melbourne, Australia (with a short detour to visit friends in Adelaide). What a place. Stunning scenery, great food and wine, and brilliant people. Oh, and lifestyle coming...
Via: Directions Magazine.It's great to hear Sean talking about the company's no. 1 asset - it's people and expertise. And it's no surprise that he's planning to do a lot more sailing - you would, w...
David Byrne talks about different business models within the music industry - and how artists can survive in the face of all the change that's going on.
I wandered down to Clissold Park, at the far end of Stoke Newington's Church Street yesterday - and found myself in the middle of a beautiful London winter evening. Cold, yes, but it was a great da...
Multimap today was acquired by Microsoft, in a move that tentatively makes sense to both companies. I hope that Multimap will benefit from access to new technologies driven by Live Earth (and there...
This is an interesting and thought-provoking piece on the nature of the communication that flows between people using so-called 'micro-blogging' tools. Interesting because of the number of times I'...
Wonderfully atmospheric disused church in the middle of Abney Road Cemetery, in Stoke Newington, London...
Flickr have integrated Picnik's photo editing functionality so that you can now tweak your pictures inline within the Flickr experience...ok, so if you're used to using one of the pro tools for doi...
A sad moment for anyone that grew up in the '70s, was male, and entertained fantasies of strapping themselves to rockets to be fired over the Grand Canyon.  Or perhaps just jumping fountains. Evel ...
Spotted this over at an old friend, Tom Smith,'s Everythingability site. He's decided to ask his clients to pay what they think he's worth for the work he does for them :) Brave. Hope it works Tom!...
Mark Cuban's for advertising sales is to create an app for Facebook that allows sellers to earn dollar by helping you sell your stuff - kind of like affiliate advertising works. So - I can put your...
A couple of months after the US Copyright Royalty Board raised the per-play rates for internet radio, many web broadcasters are being forced into closure. It's even affecting Yahoo and AOL, who rep...
Google have just announced the release of OpenSocial - an attempt to try and build commonality of API between social networks. It allows developers to access three sets of core information: profile...
There's an emergent trend for music buyers to purchase vinyl over CD - especially when record labels give them the MP3 version of their record for free...being analogue, sound quality is much les...
This is something REALLY special - software that maps images from existing sources (Flickr et al) to geospatial coordinates, and allows you to navigate through real world environments. Check this...
Interesting piece at the Guardian on the future of everybody's favourite mobile time-destroyer - the Blackberry. For me, it's the bit about becoming a social network for families that's really int...
...is where I've been recently. Normal service will be resumed soon(ish)...
Multimap have been integrated their service with Twitter to produce....their Twitterbot. What is it you ask? Well, to be honest, it is a little arcane, and quite a long way from being natural lang...
For once, I completely agree with the Times ; ) Multimap: web site of the week.
Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth: Looks like Macca isn't the only one happy to be sold next to coffee...I guess even alt artists aren't so bothered about corporate sponsorship these days...
A move is afoot. Just as I had started to enjoy the many variations of LOLCATS, then someone had to SUTTELY but POWAHFULLY shift the meme. To this. JEENIUS. (Spotted)
Interesting post by Mark Cuban on how the music industry might evolve in the future. I'm in agreement with him as to the industry's dependencies on physical artefacts over digital product - somethi...
So Mark Zuckerberg, the 22 year old founder of Facebook, believes that 'young people are smarter' - apparently because they have simpler lives (and might not own a car). Hmmm, this seems like eithe...
If you're not using it already - and you have more than a passing interest in photography - you will definitely find this extension, downloadable via Lifehacker, useful. In a nutshell, it ...
An interesting perspective on a phrase that we've been throwing around a lot recently: the "one percenter" actually used to represent biker counter culture - or at least, the element perceived to...
...and the word is 'autopoeitic'. It means: the dynamics of a non-equilibrium system; that is, organized states (sometimes also called dissipative structures) that remain stable for long periods...
I remember Ordnance Survey maps clearly from my geography lessons at school. For some reason that escapes me, we were advised that navigating an OS map was an experience something close to mystical...
Just posting this for the hell of it...I was thinking of Paris this morning, and of how much I enjoyed our trip there...
Big companies that uphold traditional media standards are bound to clash with Internet grassroots culture. Despite MySpace’s apparent oblivion to Friendster’s demise, in part due to the very freedo...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NKT6eUGJDE] I came across this a few years back, but it's still as cool now as it was then...
Insight into traffic in the online mapping market...Multimap is still way out in front, but Google Maps is catching up...
Ex.plode.us - a new social search tool - provides the ability to find other people by name or by interest. A quick search for me, and my friends displays a fairly reduced list, but I guess we shoul...
Google have announced the acquisition of Endoxon, a European mapping service - their blog entry says: We're also excited about having a dedicated team in Europe that can bring a distinctively Europ...
I'm fascinated by the controversy and animosity that's been stirred up by the BBC and the Church of Scientology. A recent Panorama programme showed the BBC journalist John Sweeney investigating the...
This has just gone on and on...I blogged about this back in March, and the bad news is that it's still likely to happen, and indeed, the first charges will be happening at the start of July 2007. O...
I thought I'd point at some amazing photographs that I came across this morning. Check out Reconstructed's collections (oh sorry, Flickr calls them 'sets' :) In particular, check 'A kind of dign...
(...said in VoiceOverManStylee) Now that I've been getting more used to my Canon DSLR, and I've been feeling that my photography has started to improve, I found this series of articles over at the...
Well, I'm sad anyways. Even though this doesn't mean you'll not be able to buy them any more, the humble audio cassette is going to be off the shelves, as Curry's announces it's going to stop sto...
A couple of music-related social web things to digest today, culled from Mashable: Firstly, Last.FM are now starting to push a video recommendation service that will push out content from their ne...
A couple of improvements to Flickr: 1. Send to a friend: accessed via the footer of the page (near the 'Add to Del.ico.us' link, a nice and easy way to send individual pics to someone...I wonder...
Getting 'em young. DIsney has launched a social network for tweenies, catchily called 'Disney Xtreme DigitalISM'. We should start a sweepstake on whether you can remember that next week. Oh well - ...
I visited Internet World yesterday, and I have to say I was seriously underwhelmed. Same CMS vendors, same focus on technology, and same tasteless sales gimmicks (I saw a seriously pissed off Vikin...
More MySpace news: MySpace UK just announced a job service, in conjunction with SimplyHired. Basically this is an aggregated service that pulls in jobs from a range of different services on the web...
"A year ago, 70 per cent of the site’s advertising income came from “performance” or click-through advertising, with the rest coming from branded advertising. In the past few mont...
Nice Flickr widget-thingy that takes your picture and places it on a black or white background. Oooo...
Whilst waiting for a cab to arrive and take us to the Gare du Nord, I had a flick through yesterday's edition of the Observer, and was struck by an article in which Andrew Keen put his negative pos...
Some pictures from this weekend's trip to Paris. I've been to Paris on business several times, and I've visited many years ago, but this trip was a chance to explore in much more detail. We ...
This seems like a very small point - the fact that MySpace has blocked feeds of Photobucket images. Still, it's interesting to see someone's opinion that it's just this kind of event that causes ma...
I know people read this blog. So why does no-one leave any comments? Is it really that unprovocative? Getting a bit fed up of monologuing...ging...ging...ng...g
Part of my job sees me thinking seriously about design and design process, and it's always good to get fresh insight into creativity. Business Week have this interview with Rob Pardo, the VP of gam...
I've been trying to think about how better to look after myself as I'm doing my cycling commute. It occurred to me that the more I do it, the more I'm likely to become complacent, and therefore the...
Well finally I can talk about something that's been ongoing at work - the redesign of the new Multimap web experience. I've been leading the experience design part of the redesign project, and it...
This looks like an interesting read...more later...
If you haven't already, you should check out Bikely - a service for cyclists that allows the creation and sharing of cycle routes. Check the route I use every day... Not the first one to do th...
Via: Guardian Music Blog Ninja Tune: "By all means pirate the latest corporate spew from major label central. But don't pretend it's the same thing as copying this, because one day, when we're all ...
'Are designers the enemy of design' via Business Week Reading this, I'm just constantly reminded of conversations we have, as designers, with our clients.
Interesting day yesterday, then. EMI and Apple announced a shift away from Digital Rights Management - albeit at a premium price, and the European Commission announced an investigation into anti-co...
EMI First Label to Go Without DRM?: " EMI announced on Sunday that it has an ‘exciting new digital offering,’ for the media event to be held in London on Monday with Steve Jobs as a special gues...
I've been reading Henry Jenkin's book, 'Convergence Culture', and enjoying it very much. He talks about the concept of transmedia storytelling, in which traditional storytelling channels are aug...
At work, we're smack in the middle of a discussion about setting objectives - and how best to do this in a creative environment. It gets really hard, particularly as it's *much* easier to measure h...
Bruce Sterling, on the current fascination with social media like Twitter and blogging, in a rant at SXSW. I wasn't there, but it would've been fun, I'm sure : ) His point is valid - I think. Anyo...
Via: The Guardian A simple device that makes the average fridge thermometer understand the actual temperature of food rather than respond to the air temperature of the fridge (air heats and cools ...
Ben took me on a guided tour of the Vegas Strip yesterday evening after the conference had cleared out for th day. I was going slightly stir crazy after being mostly indoo...
The price I paid for coming to Vegas this week is fairly steep. Firstly, I had tickets to see LCD Soundsystem at the London Astoria this Thursday...OK, OK I can go and see them again... Secondly, ...
An interesting situation this morning over breakfast. We had sat through a presentation in which Diane Davidson from Webex walked us through their efforts at generating a community for their...
I found this useful... This chap is attending the same conference that I'm at, I need to meet up...
I've just posted some takeaways from day one of the conference on LBi's blog Stream. I'm not sure I've done the day justice, but you can download all of my notes from yesteday by clicking through....
I arrived in Las Vegas yesterday evening, and I'm blown away by the place. I've been to the US before, so I was kind of prepared for the wholle 'it's big' thing, but it really is. Big. The hotel I'...
Oh my god. This looks absolutely amazing: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXk3zBY7JhI] If this is anything like the video this has the potential to reinvent online community...I wonder ho...
Well I'm gearing up for next week's conference on community. I'm absolutely thrilled to be going - being as it is a work gig ;) - and I'm looking forward to loads of stimulating discussion about bu...
I attended this BIMA event yesterday evening at LBi, and here are my highlights: 1. There was a lot of discussion from content providers about the need for standardisation NOT standards. They were...
Life could be getting more expensive for the LastFMs of this world. A new ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board essentially means the amount they pay in copyright fees is going to double in the ne...
Here's a cold picture of Dulwich park, taken a month or so ago. I've pshopped it a bit (well, quite a lot actually) but other than that, it really *was* that cold. Oh well, not an inte...
They are often "shared" with bus lanes, which in real terms means getting run over by a bus. They are full of parked cars outside yellow-line hours, which means you can't use them at weekends. The...
Just the most amazing textures, composition and feeling. I've not been learning photography for long, but I know genius when I see it! Check the rest of Ansel's work for more inspiration. And yo...
...through video conferencing. The Hexagon project is an interesting research project that has created a live video wall on screen that allows participants to view a number of different video feeds...
According to the Media Guardian, Reuters are planning to launch a gated community of traders, fund managers and analysts following the MySpace model. The thing I'm interested in finding out is whet...
Monsieur Casablanca has been talking about networked applications - well, it looks like Adobe is getting in the game. They seem to be catching up quick - they just announced an online video editing...
LastFM is widening its relationships with affiliates, to provide mechanisms to purchase and download music. It recently announced a deal with Warner, and now it's linked with EMI. EMI Music globa...
Following on from this post, this is an image from the installation itself, as the picture I submitted was displayed. Wow, convergent media in the museumspace...
After reading 'Record labels lose out as bands become brands in fierce market', I was struck by how much real transformation has happened in the last 10 years across the music industry. It's someti...
So...I been playing. I read about MyBlogLog when they were bought by Yahoo, and I was kind of intrigued as to what it might feel like to see some of the faceless visitors that appear on my blog st...
Walk past this every day, and it's amazing that you just don't see stuff around you. Now that I'm taking more pictures and getting into photography I'm noticing that t...
Via: Londonist Some intrepid explorers climbed the Millennium Dome, just for the hell of it. And then they had a wander around inside, where there's some serious building work going on. We were t...
Came across this cool new web service, Picnik, which gives you an easy-to-use photo hacking tool that integrates with your Flickr library... I like this for a couple of reasons: 1. It's a great...
It's been fairly quiet on this blog recently (god, how many times have I read than on others' weblogs) - but I'm hoping to reenergise myself and get writing again soon. The reason for the l...
This piece by Henry Jenkins is part of an ongoing debate between him, Clay Shirkey and Beth Coleman about the nature and relationship of Second Life with brands. A lot to take in - I'm currently w...
I came across this list of 'music 2.0' companies today... Not that I'd heard the expression 'music 2.0' - but it does make sense in a caring kinda community way...wonder how quickly the big 4 are ...
They said it was gonna happen...and it has. I'm working from home today due to the creaky transport system we have in London and a couple of inches of snow. It does make everywhere look a ...
Via: GigaOM MySpace have announced that they're partnering with Vodafone in Europe to bring their community exclusively to peoples' handbags and pockets. The service will provided out of the box,...
Interesting comment from Bradley Horowitz, VP of product strategy at Yahoo, on /Message, when responding to a slight criticism by Stowe Boyd: I think there's a ton of evidence that we're integrati...
Via Greenspoon Musuem in Lausanne running an exhibition entitled: 'We're all photographers now', to which anyone can upload pictures...the museum will print out and display pictures as part of the...
via: textually.org: On Blog Advertising: Bigger Bucks For The Blogosphere: " 'How do you turn blogging into a day job? Millions of people publish blogs and other niche Web sites, but they struggle ...
Google break out down under...this means they're in: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, J...
Via GigaOM: 'Are social networks just a feature?' In GigaOM's post he wonders whether the hype around social networks and networking has peaked, and points at Joost as an example of a web servic...
Episodic gaming appears to suggest a shift in how games are released to market. Despite some uncertainty over exactly how to define what makes a game 'episodic', it seems to represent a move toward...
Some recent photographs...intended to appear minimal, but I'm not sure that I've succeeded...? Check the set here on Flickr
For Mac fanboys (or grrls) only - Adium, the really incredibly useful open source chat client has finally come out of beta. I've been using it for a year or so and wouldn't dream of switching to an...
I'm a recent convert to the New World of Digital Single Lens Reflex Photography. *cough*. OK, what this means is that I'm rapidly becoming a camera geek. I've been spending most of my out-of-wor...
From: Functioning Form - Schulze and Webb: Interaction Design, Products, and Generation C " There seems to be a coming together of various philosophies that have been around now for a while. I cam...
Disused railway arch Originally uploaded by stephen__b. When we moved into south London, we didn't have the internet. In fact, it took us TWO WHOLE MONTHS until we could weave our way through t...
It's finally happened. I've gotten around to setting up a blog - and one that I hope to maintain for a bit longer than the last few. Yes, it's not the first time I've done this, but I hope this wil...
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