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.
Entries from July 2008
The joys of poorly written online dialogue
July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Patterns in Viral Marketing
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments
An interesting and fun look at the techniques that have been used to make successful viral marketing videos
The Future of Retail
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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 Cloud
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Brand-based collaborative tag clouds.
An online application for collecting one word descriptions/tags from visitors based on the logo they are shown - via
The Image Is Familiar; the Pitch Isn’t
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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?
Handwritten Typographers
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Want to know what the handwriting of the some of the world’s best typographers looks like?
Greenaway’s last supper
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
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’
Isaac Murray’s font cache
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
If you are out trawling for fonts then check out Isaac Murray’s cache of font bookmarks
Radian6
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Monitoring social media and finding those ideas that ‘pop’.
Dashboard, business intelligence, cloud monitoring - they hit all the right buttons: Radian6
Surfing in the brand-o-sphere
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
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. [...]
