Russell Davies

scary youth 2

I mentioned a while ago that I was going to stick up a link list for all those of you who are trying to find planning gigs, and are blogging. And if you look right and scroll down a bit you'll find it. Email me (russell at russelldavies dot com) if you want to be on there. But I think you only qualify if you're not currently working as a planner. I'll start another list for everyone else soon. And if you find a job, please let me know and I'll take you off.

scary youth

Are you a planner? Have you been doing it for a while? Pretty good at it? Doing it like you've been doing it for years?

Be afraid, be very afraid.

I had a small moment yesterday visiting blogs and stuff that trainee / ad school planners are putting together and it struck me; these people are really smart. Informed, insightful, energetic and funny. And they're blogging and sharing and connecting like mad. These people will take our jobs and they deserve them.

Here, here and here are some people worth employing.

And actually if you're a wannabe planner without a job, but with a blog/website let me know, by commenting here, or emailing me and I'll make a little link list so people can see who's out there.

sleeping machine sounds

I love the serendipity of the web.

Campular posted a comment on the buddha box below, I followed the link backwards to simonsound. And found this simple goregous, elegant site for a company that does all sorts of sound stuff. With great podcasts, stories of fascinating projects and best of all some gorgeous music. (Scroll down and listen to Sleeping Steam Machines, completely lovely.)

Anne has questions

...about family holidays and the wisdom or otherwise of holidaying with other families. I'm sure she'd be grateful for your thoughts. If you have any.

(I think she worries we'll go mad if the three of us keep doing this kind of stuff together. On our own.)

clouds

If you ever have a look at my flickr stuff you know I like to fill an idle moment taking cloud pictures with my phone. But my cloud appreciation is nothing compared to Gavin at the Cloud Appreciation Society - one of the best looking sites on the web. The photography is stunning. (Much better than the one above. Maybe I should get a new phone.)

And now the book's finally coming out. Hurrah.

clever headline to do with planning in romania

A splendid and enterprising Romanian has set up a great site here. If you don't know any Romanian there's still lots interesting interviews in English.

they've had another idea

This seems like a good thing.

tubemap.org

This sounds like a good idea. Maybe I can combine it with a trip to a cafe. It's like art catching up with web 2.0.

brilliant surprises

I love the interweb. Two of my favourite people sent me email over night of things they'd found online. Both are completely fascinating sites and suck up your time. And they could not be more totally different. I'm saying no more. One's here. The other's here. Talk about infinite variety.

another great alternative to reading an actual book

Everyone in the world has mentioned that Malcolm Gladwell is blogging. Which is great. But I'm equally delighted to find that Steven Johnson (author of Everything Bad Is Good For You and Mind Wide Open and Emergence and Interface Culture all of which are good) is doing it too. And has been for a while. Here's a lovely post about the unintended consequences of alphabetising your books.