Wait, is today Friday? Crazy.

• UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
  • Future Now has a good post about making the case for avoiding jargon and acronyms: http://bit.ly/m1vTe
  • Wired: some last minute excitement for the Netfilx Prize …. more crowdsourcing madness: http://bit.ly/NXDIt
  • Dan Roam draws helpful pictures that explain the healthcare crisis, or should I say insurance wars? http://bit.ly/onbqL
  • Kate Rutter’s Slime Mold post is brilliant. Let’s use other biological metaphors other than “viral” http://bit.ly/13LyEe
  • Seven lies about lying, a great NY Times piece by Errol Morris (via kotkke) http://bit.ly/W9pxe
• MARKETING
  • Choose your own adventure YouTube video: stop knife violence: http://bit.ly/2CsZqu
  • Why is Johnny Walker my standard scotch? A brilliant video advertisement http://bit.ly/VBQ7S
  • Hello crowd, take a look at the universe! Astronomers engage the crowd: http://bit.ly/lInSN
  • Google wants SEOs to help: http://bit.ly/TCpeU
  • Marketing Vox: Eye tracking used to assess display ads: http://bit.ly/104a76
• DESIGN
  • Maker Faire is coming to Africa: http://bit.ly/7GPus
• SOME FUN
  • Wired: Six reasons to hack your iPhone http://bit.ly/E2ErQ
  • Post Advertising: Mad Men yourself http://bit.ly/ayd7I

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to Friday.
I have a bunch of stuff from Kottke.org, so I just wanted to mention that it’s an awesome feed.

• UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
  • Seven lies about lying, a great NY Times piece by Errol Morris (via kotkke) http://bit.ly/W9pxe
  • Hot Waitress Economic Index (via kottke) http://bit.ly/J62Y2
  • Google’s tools to make the web faster: (via kottke) http://code.google.com/spee…
• MARKETING
  • Google wants SEOs to help: http://bit.ly/TCpeU
  • Marketing Vox: Eye tracking used to assess display ads: http://bit.ly/104a76
  • Fascinating DigitalBeat article about the future of search: http://bit.ly/JnO8F
• DESIGN
  • Youth design clube are forming: http://bit.ly/sJ3ly
  • The NY Times has a great interactive graphic to see how people spend their time: http://bit.ly/zjsti
  • Once again, artists inspire use with video projections on buildings (via adaptivepath) http://bit.ly/Cn92r
• SOME FUN
  • Interesting video that captures insect flight patterns (via Kottke) http://bit.ly/goi5

Have a great weekend.

It was another week.

• UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
  • Dare I say, get smart? http://smart.fm/
• MARKETING
  • A cool tool for updating all your social media sites at once: http://ping.fm/
  • Good news for customer service: http://bit.ly/14vKLS
  • Video of Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos http://bit.ly/2xUfJp
• DESIGN
  • A great post by Alexa Andrzejewski on the experience design process: http://bit.ly/DfMkw
  • YouTube now has 3D: http://bit.ly/PwFeE
• SOME FUN
  • This is gorgeous (via Kottke): http://vimeo.com/5606758

Have a great weekend.

This was the week. FYI, I’ve put the links in as short URL …. not sure if this is better, but it is easier.

• UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
  • Video with Tim O’Reilly about working on stuff that matters http://bit.ly/inv7l
  • Peter Gloor, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence talks about COINS http://bit.ly/JxSAs
• MARKETING
  • Good news for customer service: http://bit.ly/14vKLS
  • Video of Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos http://bit.ly/2xUfJp
• DESIGN
  • YouTube now has 3D: http://bit.ly/PwFeE
  • Arieff’s take on Design Policy Initiative for the NY Times: http://bit.ly/6RUV1
• SOME FUN
  • This is gorgeous (via Kottke): http://vimeo.com/5606758

Have a great weekend.

I was on vacation, which explains why things have been a bit quiet lately.

• UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
  • The Guardian: Manchester Report: 20 ideas for solving the climate crisis
  • Bruce Sterling’s dystopia at Reboot 2009
  • Groupable: an interesting site brings together sponsors and organizations
  • Sixty physics principles explained
    
• MARKETING
  • McKinsey Quarterly: The consumer decision journey – Consumers are moving outside the purchasing funnel—changing the way they research and buy your products. If your marketing hasn’t changed in response, it should.
  • MarketingVox: a dressing room technology that made me laugh …. and maybe cry.
  • AdFreak: a brilliant banner ad, can you believe it?
• DESIGN
  • Biofeedback meet music: The Yamaha Bodibeat
• SOME FUN
  • ThereIFixedIt.com

Have a great weekend.

This week in the Twitterverse:

• UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
  • NY Times: Zuckerburg says something interesting about privacy and Moore’s Law
• MARKETING
  • MarketingVox: AdSense goes mobile
  • Influential Marketing Blog: Virgin + Google = a day in the clouds
• DESIGN
  • Tech Crunch: Tonchidot gives an amusing presentation on the future of mobile tags
  • Hobnox: a cool audio tool that I don’t know how to use yet
  • Wired: I’ll be damned if Bing didn’t completely rip off Kayak, such is the web?
  • Identity Forum: naming our logos
• SOME FUN
  • Wikiality: what happens when what we create becomes reality
  • Wired: and porn comes to the iPhone
  • Wonderful speech by John Hodgman with Obama on whether or not he is a nerd

Have a great weekend.

This week in the Twitterverse:

• UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
  • The Wall Street Journal: Safeway has a new approach to healthcare
  • English, do you write it?
    
  • Wallpaper: Robbi Cooper flips the camera on porn
    
• MARKETING
  • NY Times; Good article about marketing speak
  • You knew it was only a matter of time before “paypertweet” companies got started. Some people never learn.
• DESIGN
  • A brilliant wedding invitation
  • Hugh MacLead: Drawing business problems and other funny stuff
    
• SOME FUN
  • If you love sticky notes you’re going to LOVE this
  • Great Design Mind piece about construction cones
  • Food vendors in San Francisco should be interested in these inventive carts
    

Have a great weekend.

This week in the Twitterverse:

• UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
  • BusinessWeek: How cloud computing will change business
    
  • Online Journalism Blog: Making money from 21st century journalism
    
• MARKETING
  • Upcoming Event in SF: Tech Bloggers & Marketing 2.0 – I’ll be hosting this @ Adaptive Path
  • AD AGE: The Facebook vanity URL land grab
  • Ogilvy white papers on marketing in a recession (with lead gen sign up)
• DESIGN
  • The USPS has a brilliant new way to determine if your package will fit in the box
    
• SOME FUN
  • A perspective window by Adelbert Ames that just messes with your head
    

Have a great weekend.

Have a great weekend, and COME TO MY ART OPENING THIS SATURDAY EVENING.

• UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
  • TED Talks: Pattie Maes demonstrates some of her mobile “sixth sense” work
  • AD Age: Pharma and the iPhone
  • How to be happy diagram (via kottke.com)
    
• MARKETING
  • BooneOakley created a brillian website using YouTube
  • A video time-line that projects into the future of mobile
  • Current: Ambient marketing anyone?
  • Clay Shirky: Transparency Is The New Marketing
  • Ideas Project: Clay Shirky on social media
• DESIGN
  • CardObserver, business cards galore
• SOME FUN
  • Wonderful photographs from the National Archive restored, a photo blog
  • Another tech bubble? What tech bubble?

Have a great weekend.

Apparently Twittering is inversely proportional to how busy I am:

• UNDERSTAND/FIX THE WORLD
  • NY Times article about companies refreshing their logos, too bad most of them aren’t actually improved
    
• MARKETING
  • TechCrunch: An interesting article about monetizing Pandora
    
• DESIGN
  • A great visualization of race data by IndiStar.com
• SOME FUN
  • A beautiful art piece with american cars that offers more than a little irony
    

Have a great weekend.