August 2010
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“I appreciate the idea of when you go someplace and it feels like a home away...”
– Caroline Bell of Café Grumpy, quoted in the New York Times article: The New Coffee Bars - Unplug, Drink Up.
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“Over 90% of UK households already have digital television today, more than 70%...”
– More from BBC D-G Mark Thompson’s MacTaggart lecture (transcript at The Guardian)
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“Sky’s marketing budget is larger than the entire programme budget of ITV1.”
– Mark Thompson, BBC Director-General, during the MacTaggart lecture (transcript at The Guardian)
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“male romantic status-anxiety is brought interestingly into parallel with...”
– Peter Bradshaw in his review of Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. Looks like you can always rely on the Guardian to bring out a previously hidden subtext.
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Can You Change Some Change?
There’s been a bit of buzz about the Dollar ReDe$ign project, especially the Dowling Duncan and Raffael Hannemann entries. There’s one thing that’s bothering me, though.
If this is truly an attempt to consider radical change for US banknotes, the spec should eliminate the one dollar bill. Sure, redesign the $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100, but if you’re thinking big, cut the...
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Watching For Attribution
bojo:
So, apparently this picture got picked up by the world we live in and is now doing the rounds. Great!
Only trouble is that Tumblr makes it really hard to know this stuff is being shared. It’s only because I saw an unusual amount of activity that I went into my Flickr stats and discovered that it had more than 500 notes from other Tumblrs! Surely there’s a better way for me to know what’s...
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Amazing. Fantastic. Wonderful.
There’s a word I’m desperately trying not to use. That word is “Awesome”.
I don’t know how much of it is the reflexive use it seems to have on the internet, and how much is English snobbery, but I really don’t like using the word. I’m pedantic enough to think that something described with it should inspire a sense of awe, rather than just being...
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“In 1947, KELD HELMER-PETERSEN self published a book entitled 122 Colour...”
– From the Saatchi Online - Blog On news pages in 2007.
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“Black and white came out of Chicago. There wasn’t very much color really – it...”
– Keld Helmer-Petersen, in an interview with Martin Parr.
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“However, for design guru Stephen Bayley, the passport’s references to our...”
– BBC News, quoting Stephen Bayley, asking What do new passport images say about modern Britain?
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“I felt the need to belong when I took pictures to discover something inside...”
– Bruce Davidson, quoted by Eclectic Media in their commentary on the Road to Freedom exhibition at the Bronx Museum.
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“Everything we put on the Web is both ephemeral and archival — ephemeral in the...”
– Scott Rosenberg: Why trust Facebook with the future’s past? (via Phil Gyford).
He goes on to compare the way that older sites - like Flickr - expose an archive, whereas newer ones - like Facebook - don’t, despite the fact that some of the promotional commentary for the Places feature has been...
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“Brands such as Office and Halfords are amongst the first in the UK to employ...”
– Olivia Solon in Wired UK: The secrets of the ads that ‘stalk’ you. Via minority report, where Martin adds “I had noticed ads getting a little more targeted lately. I felt a bit like Expedia was following me…”
I wonder, though: if you block third-party cookie sites and... 