Archive for the ‘Blogs’ Category

How do you read yours?

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Spotlight Ideas have a list of the top 100 branding, design, SEO, strategy, marketing, PR, media blogs. Totally based on their own opinion by the way, there’s no data or rigour behind it, and indeed some are more interesting than others, but it’s a good selection for all of us in “media land”, whatever your discipline. It is perhaps focussed on those who use words and phrases such as ‘marketing mix’, ‘integrated’, ‘holistic approach’, ‘communications’, ‘brand conversations’ or something equally appropriate for the 2008 version of Bullshit Bingo!

TOP 20 BLOGS

The rest are available to view here though I warn you, I steal many of my entries for TheScrapBook from these so it kind of undermines my postings… ah well, in the interests of the new media age and all that!

BMX Soundsystems - Made in Queen’s

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

 
Made in Queens
 

Slow posting this one!
My good friend Amar pointed ‘Made in Queens’ out to me yonks ago and it looks most excellent! The picture above says it all really - NY kids strapping speakers to BMXs - ingenious.

Read more over at the daily read - Creative Review blog.

“Read at Work” and “Dont Click It”

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Read At Work:

Dont Click It

Two great websites that deserve to be here on TheScrapBook. Play with them yourself to appreciate what they’re all about!

James Dawe illustration

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

 

Been looking around the net and found James Dawe’s portfolio site through The Serif - a daily dose of design inspiration.

TED - An Idea Worth Spreading

Friday, June 27th, 2008

We’ve mentioned TED before, and it truly is the most inspirational series of lectures, across a broad range of subjects; some of which are not obviously relevant to our lives and careers but all of which enrich us. The Top Ten TED Talks are what they say on the tin. Check the video on the linked page to see a highlights reel, or the links below to view the individual videos themselves. To inspire you a little, consider the most popular talk, viewed 2 1/2 million times and counting, which features neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor, who observed her own stroke while it was happening.

Top 10 TEDTalks of all time
1. Jill Bolte Taylor: “My stroke of insight”
2. Jeff Han: “Touchscreen demo foreshadows the iPhone”
3. David Gallo: “Underwater astonishments”
4. Blaise Aguera y Arcas: “Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo”
5. Arthur Benjamin: “Lightning calculation and other ‘Mathemagic’”
6. Sir Ken Robinson: “Do schools kill creativity?”
7. Hans Rosling: “The best stats you’ve ever seen”
8. Tony Robbins: “Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better”
9. Al Gore: “15 ways to avert a climate crisis”
10. Johnny Lee: “Creating tech marvels out of a $40 Wii Remote”

image courtesy of Open Learning blog

Kim Jones - NYT blog

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

 

Kim Jones is currently contributing over at NYT to their ‘The Moment’ blog, a sub section of their T magazine. Worth checking out…

Kim Jones on his involvement and inspirations for his recent work with Dunhill.

Pot Psychology

Friday, June 20th, 2008

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Pot Psychology is brilliantly funny stoner advice. From the curious Jezebel.

Business Guys On Business Trips

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Brilliant blog in the vein of Gaping Void comes Business Guys on Business Trips.

Vintage Adverts

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

For all of you fans of advertising: there is a bunch of resources cataloguing old, and somewhat creepy adverts, especially the “Demonic Tots” gallery on Plan59 (museum of mid century illustration) is worthy of note. Found in Mom’s basement is a rolling blog, regularily updated with new (read old) adverts, and with a lot of archived material.

A lot of these ads are brought together here, some funny, some odd, some just plain wrong (like the Union Carbide India advert, with the catchy line “a hand in things to come”, later responsible for the worst industrial accident in history - Bhopal 1984).

Interesting 2008

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Just been offered a ticket by my friend and colleague, Mark, to go to Russell Davies’ Interesting 2008. No idea what it’ll be like, but hopefully it will be interesting! Cheers mate.

Get yours here

Russell writes, “My blogging experience has taught me that technology can create real, important, sustaining connections between people separated by geography and all sorts of other things. It’s taught me that generosity can be its own reward but that there’s also real tangible benefits in sharing your ideas and your time with people.”

EDIT: The info for Interesting is being updated here