What's not to like about an agency that puts the consumer (not the customer/advertiser) first... But the part where they urg advertisers to act on behalf of the consumer in a way that creates brand advocates worries me a little.
Found via Fresh Creation.
At a certain point the AdNerds and I agreed to disagree: they are big fans of the use of Facebook Connect for campaign sites, and I am not. Or was. Or maybe not. I'm still a little confused after the impressive use of Facebook Connect by the makers of the Xbox game The Prototype Experience. Try it out: connect with your Facebook login and the intro to the game will use your personal info and pictures inside the flash video. Very impressive and only slightly creepy. What I liked most: the application doesn't trick you into unknowingly invite all your facebook contacts to try the game out, too.
It all started a couple of days ago with some e-shop browsing in bed. One should be careful with those late-night sessions because before you know it, you're buying another computer. I chose the HP mini Vivienne Tam because - does one really need an excuse to get this little red flowery netbook? I got mine simply because it's the most gorgeous windows machine I ever saw. I usually buy Apple but since they're obviously not bringing out a netbook (tablet or not) any day soon, I went for Tammy. Yes, I named her Tammy and I have big plans for her. 
It's an old trick: a small error like a "tâche de beauté" makes the rest of your face look prettier. I've been told that during the French baroque era the rich ladies would carry ugly little dogs with them to make their own beauty stand out more.
"Autistic people suffer from impaired social interaction and communication. In children the condition is heightened with sensory disorders and even minor noises can disturb them. A recent research suggests that stimulants like music, aromatherapy, and textured toys can help alleviate the condition. This where something like the Beagle scarf-hoodie can help."
You might call it an example of embedded publishing or self publishing (as in: freedom to publish without government or corporate control) or simply an example of personal (re)branding but in any case: former porn director Dennis Burkas has just published the book he wrote during his six months in Hasselt prison. Check out the FlashPageFlip full version to read the book.
When I was little, fairytales were cruel stories full of child abuse, impossible love and poverty. Hans and Gretel were dumped by their parents and became hostage of an evil witch, who wanted to eat them. Little Red Riding Hood ventured out in the forest and got eaten by a wolf. Snowy White bit from the forbidden fruit and fell into a coma. There were often brave princes or other heroes in the end to rescue them with a kiss (which was, I guess, a metaphor for marriage) but that part of the story was always a bit rushed.
The scary part of having children of your own is that you really don't know which ones of their unusual experiences will turn into a lasting trauma. I know it sounds dramatic, but think of how you were as a child: you've seen some weird and shocking things when you were little but most of them you conveniently forget over time. And then some tiny detail, say, a word someone says or a scene in a tv series you're watching makes you shudder every time you think of it.
Unbelievable. This guy is turning the whole ideal of social music upside down by turning it into a hyper personal (and some say, elitist) listening experience. The irony is that Alc Duffy's theatre company is called Hoi Polloi, an Ancient Greek phrase that means "the masses," or "the people."
And now Mr Duffy is travelling to Europe, taking the song with him. This would make a great movie script.
Foxinabox.be is in Dutch and French only, but basically it's like Ikea for food: you order online, and the ingredients (all conveniently washed and chopped) arrive at your door step in a classy box. All you have to do is assemble to get a delicious meal. Perfect for a relaxed evening of preparing dinner together (instead of having the poor cook miss most of the jokes because he's with his head under the cooker hood). Vlaamse bloggers geven bloed from StampMedia on Vimeo.
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The world's thickest book is supposed to be the complete Miss Marple stories by Agatha Christie (4,032 pages). But the records appears to be broken by one Rob Matthews, who made a book out of Wikipedia's featured articles. The result: a 5,000 page tree killer. According to the artist, "reproducing Wikipedia in a dysfunctional physical form helps to question its use as an internet resource."
If you're stuck with a writer's block, need to come up with a new creative concept quickly or just want to yourself sharp and thinking, give the The Brainstormer a swirl. 
Nawlz is "an online interactive comic book and can be viewed at http://www.nawlz.com
It combines the use of text, illustration, music, animation and interactivity to tell the story. The story follows Harley Chambers as he kicks thru the futuristic City of Nawlz engaging in overlaying virtual realities, mind-bending drugs and other strange techno-cultures."
I missed David Orban's presentation of WideTag when he was at Picnic '08 and now I feel sorry for it. This lavalamp style energy monitor is a really great example of how the internet of things could combine data gathering, social media and sustainability.
Joining the docs - Us Now: "Internet, and the software that runs on it, is a fundamentally different form of communication. Within a few years we’ve stopped being passive consumers of limited sources of information, entertainment and expertise. Instead, we have become the authors of our own information and knowledge, sharing what we care about with others rather than merely being swayed by the latest marketing of a product or lifestyle. Most powerfully, we’ve begun to trust each other again." 
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