Bit Museum
There are plenty games from the 70s and 80s that we all remember: Pac-Man, Galaga, Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros... But there are also plenty you don't. And for good reason. If you want to take a trip down reject…
Continue Reading →TED 2009: Day One
We're attending the 25th Anniversary of TED, which is proving to be yet another extraordinary tour de force of mind expanding speakers and entertainers. Al Gore followed up on last year's disturbing new environmental scientific data with some even more…
Continue Reading →Gist
In the digital age we've all become victims of information overload. We're flooded with so much data via blogs, emails, and attachments that we often forget not only where we got it from, but where we put it. Gist combines…
Continue Reading →World Economic Forum, Davos 2009
I was at Davos again this year, but decidedly quiet on the blogging front -- I did a bit of Twittering, but for the most part was really there to focus on the topics at hand. If you didn't make…
Continue Reading →Nollywood Babylon
One of the most compelling projects at this year's Sundance Film Festival was Nollywood Babylon, a movie about Nigeria's film industry (after Hollywood and Mumbai-based Bollywood, it's the third largest in the world but has the highest volume). With Lagos…
Continue Reading →Disposable Film Festival
Few marketing emails begin with the salutation, "hello friend of disposable film." Welcome San Francisco's recently founded Disposable Film Festival highlighting work captured on one-time use digital video cameras, webcams, point and shoot digital cameras, cell phones, screen capture software,…
Continue Reading →NamelessleTTer
The artblog project NamelessleTTer finds itself at the intersection of image bookmarking (a la FFFFOUND!) and hidden messages that are written with the intention of being discovered (think PostSecret). The collaborative effort to leave personalized bookmarks in public reading material…
Continue Reading →T-Mobile's Soul Train
It's not often that we've had reason to dance during our morning commute, but the prospect of better cell phone service just might cause us to "spontaneously" cut a rug given the proper soundtrack. T-Mobile's feel good ad of the…
Continue Reading →SpeechWars
If you're not already completely absorbed in this morning's inauguration activities, jump over to SpeechWars and check out their graphs of different words our nation's Presidents have spoken in their Inaugural addresses - from women to union to world to…
Continue Reading →IWearYourShirt — less
Back when IWearYourShirt.com launched, I swooped in and grabbed today's date "“ January 20th. I thought I'd send him some clever Obama inauguration T-shirt to sport proudly for me, but truthfully I never got around to it. Then I thought…
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