The Hayseed Chronicles and Mr. Toppit now tops my must reads
For all of you who are massive Hayseed fans, here’s a little pearl of a blog to add to your feeds.
A charming read, The Big Blog of Hayseed collects m...
Userfly – great for testing your users
Had to share this little gem: Userfly tracks users movements on your site so you can see what they’re doing.
Clay Shirky on group action getting easier
Clay Shirky was at the LSE a couple of days ago speaking about his book Here Comes Everybody and how change happens when people come together. I’ve read t...
Will Lions is the new Lynnetter
I found Lynnetter’s photo-sets on Flickr really useful both for understanding some of things that were happening online in 2007 and also for explaini...
Moderation types
Whenever companies want to publish user generated content (UGC) they need to look into moderation, which usually consists of either pre-moderation, post-m...
Mostly gloom for glossies
The New York Times reports here on the fall in magazines’ ad pages (and no doubt revenues) and sugars the pill with a cute piece of interactive informatio...
Follow me: seven online communities I’m on right now
If you’re going to have any success building healthy, active and engaging social communities online, you’ve got to be endlessly curious about how they wor...
What the fig is burp.fm?
Yeah, good question.
It’s something we’ve been working on as a ‘fun’ side project. I’m not going to try and convince you that it’s a gently mocking cr...
Stuff that’s been floating around the office during the last 2 weeks
It’s taken me a while to get down to compile this – we’ve been busy at Made By Many! I was actually contemplating the necessity of this series of posts bu...
The first real-time presidency
100 days seems like a long time when every second is captured as an individual event (from multiple perspectives) and then released to play out across the...
Fashion Swap – we should all be stylish as we (credit) crunch
Want to look great during the credit crunch? Tired of too much clutter in your wardrobe?
This weekend, I’m taking some of my closet treasures to The L...
“What Is a Social-Media Agency?”
That’s the title of an excellent piece in Advertising Age by Reuben Steiger the CEO of Millions Of Us (great name!). Starts off by asking the fascinating ...
I don’t know how our parents managed to meet
Match.com recently launched a new personality test and since curiosity is one of my more prominent traits, I could not resist giving it a go. I’ve been fo...
A visual take on volunteering
Last year, when I lived in New York, I signed up to receive occasional updates from one of the biggest volunteering organisations in the US called Volunte...
The future of advertising according to the IPA
This event had the potential to be so much more. This is what the IPA advertised it as:
There’s a revolution in the air that’s transfo...
Stuff that’s been floating around the office – week ending 15th January 2009
Let’s get straight into it:
1. The Whopper Sacrifice and its sad end: Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the agency famously responsible for the Bill Gates-Jer...
LastGraphing it away
At the first meeting of Every Single One of Us yesterday, a movement intended to ‘to facilitate and accelerate commercially viable and mutually benef...