Quite a while ago, Virgin Music came up with an interesting trivia challenge. They had an artist draw a picture which included graphical representations of the names of 74 bands and published it in a magazine (large scanned image from the mag) . Someone flickr’d the solution.
February 2007
Monthly Archive
Wed 28 Feb 2007
Thu 22 Feb 2007
I find the term Web 2.0 so painful I honestly don’t use it in conversation. I’ve been a huge fan of the Web and hypertext in particular since I first saw it. Mwesh created a pretty neat YouTube video “The Machine is Us/ing Us” which is a bit of a history lesson about the Web. CoreyTheRaven created a video expressing his thoughts on paper, which perhaps has the highest bit to content ratio I’ve ever seen.
Mon 12 Feb 2007
The German TV news channel ARD has a very interesting news atlas (in German!) on their site. While MapReport is probably an earlier incarnation of this type of service, sites like NewsMap organize news by popularity. 10×10 gives you the same concept with pictures.
Fri 9 Feb 2007
Just got back from Akamai Kick-off 2007 at the Copley Marriott in Boston. What a blast. It’s always great when you get to meet the people that you work with remotely on a daily basis. We had great fun at bowling and I learned that I’m no good at Guitar Hero II. Meeting the San Mateo, London and Munich teams was awesome and I got to practice my horrible German on a few unsuspecting souls.
Sat 3 Feb 2007
Klaus turned me onto this amazing presentation given at a TED conference in 2006 by Hans Rosling, no relation, on myths about the developing world. But the Gapminder.org project he is leading is just tremendous. You can see the work at Google. The Gapminder World 2006.