March 2010
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Streampad
Been looking for this for ages. Streampad scans you blog and pulls all the music posts into an audio player at the bottom of the page, so you can just listen to your blog like a radio station.
Great piece of functionality, and very easy to install.
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WatchSome excellent video work from Sam Bresnan today, who works in digital media at Nike. His personal collection of work is testament to what you can create with a bunch of great still shots, Final Cut and a well-chosen soundtrack.
I am in constant admiration of people that can find beauty in the everyday. Sometimes its far more about how you put things together than it is about what it is that you...
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Design inspiration
Sometimes its hard to find inspiration when you really need it. There is so much content on the web today that I have found that the internet has become virtually redundant as an inspiration source - the search process is unintuitive, has no beginning, and generally no end.
In most cases, content needs to be well organized to have real utility. That’s what newspapers do brilliantly, and...
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Great new track this week from a band I...
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Harper Simon is a great find right before the...
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Quarter stories
The imagination of Phil and Hillary never ceases to amaze me. Phil’s latest blog enterprise, Quarter Stories, is a great example of the madness that goes through their heads. Phil is paying Mechanical Turk users 25 cents each to create a short story based on any of the photo’s in his flickr stream.
I have been interested in the range of potential uses for Mechanical Turk for the...
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Afrigadget
I started blogging because I wanted a place where I could capture all of the things that I see that I like and trigger me to think a bit.
Its pretty humbling then when you come across blogs like afrigadget, a site with genuine purpose and meaning.
Afrigadget is a blog dedicated to examples of African ingenuity applied to everyday issues faced by African people. Its an inspiring collection of...
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Finally got to see the Shout Out Louds last night...