Periodically, I run through my Delicious to see which of my friends blogs are still being updated- there’s nothing sadder than a blog whos last post is 2005- and trim it down a little. As a result of which, here’s a couple reading:
Alfie of moblog fame is still cranking out the incisive posts on the state of the mobile industry/web 2.0 interface:
http://4lfie.com/
Ian Crocombe’s industry blog, Dirty, Nasty, Digital is still going strong. His Delicious is also worth a look.
Always on the lookout for good, free textures, and having pretty much exhausted Stock Exchange, I stumbled across Urban Dirty, which is frankly awesome. If you need grunge, rust, dirt or any generally distressed surface, check them out.
Very good article (including comments and what comes close to a flame war) at The Drama2.0 Show on how people measure ROI on social media campaigns, i.e. they don’t, very often.
I’m personally still very unsure of the supposed value of a personal online social network, beyond would could have been achieved ten years ago with email and Usenet. We are not all in PR, nor want to be.
After a lot of messing about with my friend Satine in the States I’ve (hopefully) managed to snag one of these great Obama posters by Shepard Fairey, the proto- Banksy guy behind the whole Obey/ Andre the Giant thing (you can’t ship them directly to Europe for some reason).
Another reason to love Barack Obama- during this speech he points out a previous piece of Shepard’s (at that point free and unofficial) work for the campaign and says “Very nice graphic, by the way”, later also writing him a thank you note. He cares about graphics! What’s not to love?
I hear Hilary thinks graphics are frivolous and unimportant and loves PowerPoint.
My girlfriend’s first attempt at pimping a Qee (DIY Japanese toy.) We’ve had it sat around since Christmas, looking accusing and unadorned from it’s shelf in the corner. This is not a good look, so eventually Myriam had at it with some felt shapes that were lying around.
We had a lot of good design-ey fun doing it, I have a feeling this might end up being rather expensive.
Someone backed out of an exhibition at the Foundry, so the RuiNation show is on for an extra week or two. Next time we’ll actually do some work for it and not use ten year old backdrops, we promise.
