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Posts from November 2007

Links For Monday 19th November 2007

Posterwhore
A visual blog of all sorts of poster design. Ace.
(tags: design blog posters illustration)

apophenia: gluttonous texting
Short article on the texting habits of US teenagers, and the social conventions that initially sprung up and are now changing. Interesting stuff, connected to the concept of “ambient intimacy”.
(tags: culture teens texting mobile)

Magazine covers of the year […]


Links For Tuesday 13th November 2007

JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1
The Journal of Computer Mediate Communication has a special issue on social networking. Probably not for everyone, but I am sick in the brains, and find this sort of thing interesting.
(tags: socialnetworking academic culture)


Links For Monday 12th November 2007

Johnn Hari: Beware the Tories’ Wisconsin welfare plan - Independent Online Edition
I have some otherwise-sane friends who are considering voting Tory next time. Here’s a reminder: Labour are bad, but the Tories are worse. Bad as Brown is, he’s not out to destroy the welfare state to that extent. Don’t let […]


Links For Friday 9th November 2007

Noisy Decent Graphics: Tea, please
I can only think of one our clients that has anything but water when they come for a meeting (we offer), and I don’t think I’ve been offered more than water in ages when at someone else’s office. This is not right - the Men need Tea to do the […]


Talking To The Cat

More of my occasional tales from the day job, and while this one is most useful for resolving technical problems, I’ve had some success with it in other areas of my life, so I thought I’d share it with you.

They don’t call it code, because it’s easy to understand, you know. Internet Ninjas like […]


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