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Entries from December 2005

Narrowcasting

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December 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

Mass customisation and niche cultural production are the driving force behind the demise of what has become an antiquated business model. The LA Times looks at the mass media’s last blast.

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Visualising the stockmarket

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December 16th, 2005 · No Comments

An interesting graphical way to view the Nikkei

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Unto this last

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December 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Unto this last produces their work on on computer-controlled machines. Each product is made to order, customized for each client, from a selection of sizes, materials and options. This way each item has it’s logistics costs reduced considerably.

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The first year: 7 lessons learned

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December 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Forty Media look back at their first year in business and discuss what they have learned.

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Mac productivity boosters

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December 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Macworld list their top 6 productivity boosting applications

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Baby mix me a drink

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December 15th, 2005 · No Comments

If you have a small child that needs to be trained to mix you cocktails then these ’story books’ might be what you are looking for

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The ‘crawl’ makes you stupid

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December 15th, 2005 · No Comments

Kansas State University researchers have found that the little crawling text that is put at the bottom of news programmes inhibits the retention of facts by up to 10%

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Bochox

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December 15th, 2005 · No Comments

Some fun chocolate designs from Christchurch, NZ

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Informing Ourselves to Death

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December 15th, 2005 · No Comments

Well known for his knowledge on the way technology plays it’s role in culture, Neil Postman has written a number of good books such as ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ (about Television) and ‘Technopoly’ (the role technology plays with society). Here is the written transcript of a speech he gave to the German Informatics Society in [...]

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Happy Seed

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December 12th, 2005 · No Comments

Cute interactive flash animation, move your mouse around and click - Happy Seed

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