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Virginia Heffernan for the New York Times revels in the frustrating yet contemporary written pleasures that have grown out of the dialogue within online Message Boards and Blogs.

An interesting and fun look at the techniques that have been used to make successful viral marketing videos

When we are all walking around with internet capable barcode scanners (3G/Wireless mobile phones with built in camera) the ability to scan a barcode in a shop and instantly receive a better price online or at another retail store will radically change the retail industry - Instant Price Match

Brand-based collaborative tag clouds.
An online application for collecting one word descriptions/tags from visitors based on the logo they are shown - via

Advertising has long used and copied from popular culture (film) but recently artists are finding large corporations are ripping off their visual language to pitch their products - where to from here?

Want to know what the handwriting of the some of the world’s best typographers looks like?

Director Peter Greenaway has been able to gain access to Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’, producing an amazing montage of  computer generated projected light and audio. Peter Greenaway’s ‘Last Supper’

If you are out trawling for fonts then check out Isaac Murray’s cache of font bookmarks

Monitoring social media and finding those ideas that ‘pop’.

Dashboard, business intelligence, cloud monitoring - they hit all the right buttons: Radian6

Last night I discovered/re-discovered a few new design,brand & culture sites. Initially I was looking at Behance Network a creative network/community and from there found a good list of sites, portfolios & blogs. This then led me to Frog Design’s blog Frog Blog which contains lots of intelligent discussion about Innovation, branding and product design. Frog Blog then led me to CULTUREMAKING which was an enjoyable intellectual investigation of branding - lots of good stuff in there. Then onto the Buzz Bin which deals with branding within the social community side of things and then  finally onto  ideasonideas which is more design/branding focused. This was really just the start, but enough to get my head into some interesting concepts as they happen at the ‘coal-face’.