Posted by ion on November 22, 2008 – 2:52 pm
Filed under 2.0, advertising
Citeam interviul asta pe IQads, despre John Rives, poetul 2.0. Ma rog, un om care face entertainment cu rima asa cum Seth Godin face edutainment cu notiuni de marketing si poke entertorials pentru telefoanele motorola. Adica mai putin un creator de continut autentic si mai degraba un agregator agresiv si enciclopedic. Oricum, mi-am adus aminte de poezia asta a lu Bukowsky.
16-bit Intel 8088 chip
“with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.”
Posted by ion on November 22, 2008 – 2:23 pm
Posted by ion on October 29, 2008 – 5:00 pm
Filed under 2.0, web, weirdies
http://www.vimeo.com/1807754
In completarea postului de mai jos, iata si primul “First Person Painting game” (in jargon probabil FPP). Sistemul de joc e simplu si revolutionar. Ai in mana un tub inepuizabil de vopsea neagra cu care tragi rafale de revelator pe peretii albi ai mediului necunoscut, dar inconjurator. Prin martie 2009 se pare ca il putem deja pirata. Se numeste, cum altfel, The Unfinished Swan si e creat de Ian Dallas care se autointituleaza a reasonable man. Ma rog, un om care dupa ce a creat jocul asta, acum studiaza foarte atent populatiile de furnici.
Posted by ion on February 25, 2008 – 9:41 pm
I didn’t know that this war is taking place right now: advertising vs digital. Since when, we advertisers grew such long bears? Even though everybody agrees with the disease (that advertising as we know is it a couple of blocks away from disaster), the end never felt this near. But here comes Iain Tait the (very) young fouder of Poke (one of the leading digital agencies in UK) and puts advertisers on shaky ground. Speaking for the PSFK conference (Ten Reasons Why Digital Is Better Than Advertising) in London he names ten absolutely viable truths about the way digital is comin’ on the old masters. You’ve got the video presentation HERE (which, funny enough, is not available on youtube). Just one quote, to raise your interest: “A ‘just do it’ culture of entrepreneurialism - “The great thing about the web is you can fail fast and you can fail cheap”
Posted by ion on February 6, 2008 – 1:11 am
that’s what the astonishing website of Jonathan Harris - WeFeelFine has been doing for a living since august 2005. Now, this struck me as a revelation because it has such a simple idea but with so much insight on what is happening to the web these days. As he says in a TED presentation we, as human beings, are so much alike. We have many qualities that just put us together somehow. The problem is that between us there are also gaps. Religious gaps, social gaps, economical gaps, gender gaps, etc. One of the many common human qualities that the internet sets free and empowers is the need to express one’s self. Facebook, myspace, blogs and social networking are all about one thing - express. Well, WeFeelFine is not a voice, it’s a huge ear, listening to what millions of people are feeling right now. A machine, an anthropological algorithm harvesting thousands of human feelings every day, while providing one of the most moving glances into the human spirit that I have ever experienced .
Harris is the only person I know that uses the 2.0 tools in a proper way and one of the few that manages to weave universal science and personal mythologies in meaningful and plastic patterns. Simplicity, connection, dialogue they are all there.
He has a plethora of beautiful projects you can check up on his webpage.
You should also look into this, where he unveils the work behind one of his projects - Universe.
Posted by ion on December 13, 2007 – 11:57 pm
Filed under 2.0, web, weirdies
Sometimes I play a stupid game with my thoughts. When I catch myself daydreamin I hold the last thought (usually an absurdity) and try to track it back to the its source. Most of the times I don’t make it to the “trigger thought” but I always have lots of fun with the way the brain develops analogies. To some extent it’s just like the internet. You start with one googled thought and the hypertext takes care of the rest of the madness. So let me introduce you to my last series of unfortunate chain of links. I’m listening to the YeahYeahYeahs. Their vocalist’s name is Karen O, I start google, type Karen O and press the first link which brings me on the Wikipedia page of Karen O, where I remember that she made the soundtrack of an Addidas commercial made by Spike Jonze, so I look for Spike Jonze and see that that’s not their last project together, because Spike is currently in production with a movie based on a children book “Where the wild things are” designed and written by Maurice Sendak and published in 1970, so I go to the Amazon website to look for the book, I find it, browse it and look in the items other customers also bought, where I find The Polar Express and finally reach this blog about the polar movie where on the links on the right are “NORAD tracks Santa” and “NASA tracks Santa” I boldly go for the NASA tag and reach a place where the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is actually somehow tracking Santa with a world map and some funny messages like “All elves are reminded to be ready for the ISO 9000 audit starting this Wednesday”. This is where I stop and open my blog page.
Now play that backwards. Does it make any sense?
PS
The NORAD tracking of Santa has quite a funny story. Read about it here.
and the commercial….
Posted by ion on December 10, 2007 – 8:23 pm
Who said books won’t survive the millennium? I thou thee, thou traitor! Here is Shelfari which invites everybody to read, share and explore using the simple and traditional idea of shelf. Well, 2.0 shelves actually with which you can “embed”, “tag”, “connect” and “discover” books and friends with. This concept, leaving aside its simplicity, has a great “consumer” insight. For me at least, the book shelves have always functioned similar to the business cards. I watch the man in his eyes, ask him about the books he has and then carefully shake his hand. not.
Up there is my shelf. Night all over.
