Russell Davies

cornelius

A lovely vinyl toy from Dark Horse, Cornelius is here to celebrate 100 years of Kellogg's.

a year of listening

Camiel points us to this fantastic site. 365 bits of odd audio genius. You could spend forever listening to this. And it's from the old web 1.0 world of 2003. Before misplling and podcasts.

collective wisdom

       

If anyone can do a friend of mine a favour I'd be grateful. They're trying to find the one book that y'all would recommend on the following topics:

1. Celebrity in modern culture
2. Prestige, or class
3. Psychology of succes/recognition/status
4. The idea of membership/belonging

Any thoughts please add them to the comments, and if this works I'd be happy to ask questions for other people too.

thanks in advance

nuff respect to spell with flickr

            

a definition of happiness

Trees reflected in your tea. Here.

flickrvertising

I've been accused of inventing a new form of advertising. God, you wouldn't want that on your tombstone would you? (Even if the accuser seems to think it's a good thing.)

What everyone seems to have missed is that the reason those books are up there is that I'm offering to lend them to people, for nothing. The Amazon link is really there as an extra service - more info etc. (Though obviously if someone wants to buy the book then I'm happy to make a little money through my affiliate number.) I guess this is a 'if you have a hammer everything looks like a nail' problem. If you're an advertising person, everything looks like an opportunity to do advertising. To me it doesn't look like advertising, it looks like an extra link to useful info. But even just typing that just makes me feel like some kind of evil spammer.

Jeez, I'll happily take everything down if it's going to result in the growth of some sort of nasty flickrspam. I hope that doesn't happen, and I hope it's not my fault.

IT conversations on Thursday 3

I hope you've all read Everything Bad Is Good For You, but if you haven't here's a splendid summary of many of the ideas from Mr Steven Berlin Johnson. From Pop!tech 2005.