Found this over at O’Reilly Radar. Interesting visualizations that compare the social networks discussing #justinbieber (left) and #teaparty (right).
Continue reading ‘Structures of Conversation: Justin Bieber vs. Tea Party’
We all know what happens when a lesser known artist is featured in an Apple commercial. Careers are launched. Artists like Passion Pit stop by TBWA\Chiat\Day to play free gigs and hope for a call.
Continue reading ‘Scaling Good Ideas (Why We Need To Think Like VCs)’
A recent Economist article looks at online behavior from an archaeological perspective, observing how users are migrating from blogs to social networks.
Continue reading ‘A Vast Field of Dead Blogs, Like Hastily Abandoned Cities’
“The most interesting trend in the development of the Internet is not how it is changing people’s ways of thinking but how it is adapting to the way that people think.” Great composition for Iron Man 2 by Prologue.
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On Shell’s new Let’s Go advertising push:
As BP repeatedly botches its communications efforts around the environmental disaster that is the worst oil spill in U.S. history, nearly every other oil company has gone silent save one: Shell Oil.
Continue reading ‘Shell Distances Itself From Being “Just Oil”’
This is something that any New Yorker will appreciate. Remember that all too familiar moment of orientation as you surface from the subway system?
Continue reading ‘Graffiti Compasses Reorient NYC’s Subway Riders’
Near Future Laboratory makes an interesting comment on a project out of MIT.
What is this object? According to This Means This, This Means That it is an Inuit map.