Apps for telly

Last week, the BBC Trust gingerly announced provisional approval of the BBC’s Project Canvas. 

The aim of Project Canvas is to define a set of st...

Mike Laurie   ·   29 December 2009

It’s all about emotions, silly

Today, London saw its first snowfall of this winter season. As the white powder from the sky changed into sizable, more distinct flakes of snow, ever...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   16 December 2009

The DIYist

If you want to understand ‘the social web’ and where it’s going, take a look at what the DIYists are up to.

For years, DIY was the bastion of the...

Mike Laurie   ·   15 December 2009

Personal platforms and the future Of communication

I found this simple and to-the-point presentation of what the future of digital will be like in 2010 by Rob Manson (@nambor). Essentially, we are moving t...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   11 December 2009

It’s OK to fail

Years ago, when I was a teenager working as a summer camp counsellor, I was given a very valuable lesson in the expectation of success. (Full disclosure: ...

Sara Williams   ·   11 December 2009

Branded food disasters

You're working on a popular supermarket brand of processed meat. You're in a brainstorm. It's late, the client's pushing hard for ideas. He's got piz...

Mike Laurie   ·   10 December 2009

Great writing does not depend on the tools

Yesterday’s Observer contained an astonishingly silly article from Tim Adams, entitled Will e-books spell the end of great writing? The short answer to th...

James Higgs   ·   7 December 2009

Enough of the R-word!

Today I awoke to find a veritable call to arms in my inbox:

Social Media Revolution is one of those hard-hitting, stat-stuffed summary vidette...

Sara Williams   ·   4 December 2009

Bookshops are not dead. Long may it remain so.

Basheera Khan writes that bookshops should die. Retreating slightly from her panegyric for digital readers, she falls back on the library as the alternati...

James Higgs   ·   25 November 2009

Measuring

 

I’ve been thinking of how to measure engagement in the digital space for a while now, so I wanted to aggregate my thoughts and put them in one place...

Anjali Ramachandran   ·   19 November 2009

Creative Review, D&AD and Adobe round table discussion on the future of advertising

Back in the summer William and I were invited to take part in a Creative Review round table discussion to debate the ‘Future of Advertising’. Chaired by P...

Simon I'Anson   ·   19 November 2009

Tear down this wall! Crowdsourcing comes of age

Hello. I’m Sara and I joined Made by Many last month. My forte is content, so it seems appropriate that my first post should be all about conversation… sp...

Sara Williams   ·   17 November 2009

Life after Verdana

Typekit launched recently amid a tremendous buzz from designers and bloggers across the web.

What Typekit offers are ‘real’ fonts on the web. Don’t qu...

Simon I'Anson   ·   17 November 2009

I’ve been Bosewatched

For those who don’t follow my Twitter stream, I’ve been running a ‘bosewatch‘ hashtag campaign for the last couple of months. You see, my desk overlooks R...

Simon I'Anson   ·   6 November 2009

We’ve been nominated for a BIMA, and now we need your votes

We’re really happy to have been nominated as a finalist in the British Interactive Media Association Awards (BIMA) for ‘Best Blog’.

Both rounds of vot...

Tim Malbon   ·   2 November 2009

Look Into My Eyes, with Twitter Lists

I’ve been collecting the profile pics of people on Twitter who represent themselves with a single eye.

Fine, that’s really normal.

But now, Twitte...

Tim Malbon   ·   1 November 2009

Spot the difference: mobile phone websites

Browsing a range of mobile phone websites, I was struck by the incredible similarities of the way different phones are showcased.

Yes there are micros...

Justin McMurray   ·   30 October 2009

Looking towards more flexible web-based editorial design

Isaac and I have been discussing how users consume media and news which has raised some interesting questions around online publishing. Specifically: how ...

Simon I'Anson   ·   29 October 2009