I’m a couple days late on catching this one, but it’s well worth 3 minutes of your time. So nicely done, and an awesome sight.
Enjoy.
Been a while since I’ve caught a new track from Tay, but he’s back. And, seems his production budget has been upped since his days of Chocolate Rain. Guess that Cherry Dr Pepper deal didn’t hurt too much.
Will be curious to see if the latest gains the same traction as his others. Or if the star has started to fade on Tay (which I hope it hasn’t).
Just caught this over on Citizentube (which incidentally is another great source I just started keeping regular tabs on). Nice cultural roundup of the last 9 years (though obviously the chorus is already sounding off on the moments that may have been missed, but that’s bound to happen).
Good for what it is, and the picture it paints of the journey we’ve taken over the past few years, as well as hinting at where we are headed. Worth 7 minutes.
I’m always on the lookout for new ways of organizing/filing/sharing the stuff I come across. Delicious and my reader continue to be my primary ways of doing so, but I think anyone who uses them would agree that there is still something to be desired. And while I might not straight replace them in the near term, doesn’t mean I can’t add some supplemental services here and there.
Not sure if Toobla will prove to be one such service, but one of the more interesting visual organizers I’ve seen recently. Mashable does a nice job of summing up the services elevator pitch:
You can create custom folders that you can store anything you want in — web pages, embedded videos or web apps, photographs, flash games — and then make those collections public or keep them for yourself.
Toobla has a list of the most popular shared folders on its site in various categories full of content that you can view. Clicking on a link will take you to a page, but clicking on a video or audio file (or other embedded content) will display the content right inside Toobla.
Worth a read of the full review. Love that it organizes visually rich content in an equally visually interesting and engaging way. Raises the ease of use factor significantly when compared to combing through page after page of text links and endless tag clouds. And with the stamp of the mashable ‘spark of genius’ series, I guess that’s enough to give it a serious shot.
Given that I went to Indiana, it is very difficult for me to give Purdue credit for anything. That said, now that I’m not actually in school anymore, I guess I can force myself to step back and recognize innovation when I see it.
The school just launched Hotseat, a new approach to engaging students in classroom discussions by embracing real-time interaction through twitter, facebook, and texting. Academia has for one reason or another been pretty slow at times to embrace technology and new ways of interaction and connecting that the social web allows, so it’s pretty uplifting to see a true step towards changing the way teaching and the educational system work, and how they may evolve to better fit into the 21st century.
It’s a pilot program for now, but if it takes off and is successful with students (and, importantly, faculty are able to adjust to getting not-always-positive feedback in real time), then I hope it’s something that would eventually spread to other schools in some form or another.
Anyone know of any other universities (or even high schools for that matter) trying out something similar?
Spur is a new series out of Redscout that puts some perspective on the world of planning at agencies as it is now, and thoughts on where it needs to go. Timing is particularly good coming out of Planning-ness a couple weeks back, and hopefully will spark similar interest and dialogue about all of the things we need to change.
This teaser video is a good start to the series. Think the closing quote from Dan Cherry at Anomaly might some up the change we’re all looking for in this industry best: “if you have a point of view on the strategy and the plan, why the hell wouldn’t you be involved in the doing?”
Eager to see how the rest of the series unfolds.
A few more details:
Contributors
And upcoming topics:
While exploring the new (at least new to me unless I just missed it before) ‘popular items’ aggregator feed on my Reader, came across another one of life’s complex issues boiled down into a flowchart. This is one of the better ones I’ve seen in a while, though surprisingly I haven’t seen it bouncing around in other feeds yet.
Some good Monday morning/afternoon enjoyment.
For those who weren’t able to attend Planning-ness in San Francisco last weekend, Adrian has posted a great recap (complete with decks and videos of our presentations) from the session he and Rob organized around creating planning’s new tools (from the brief, to research, to awards). After Adrian and Rob tee’d things up, they broke us out into small groups to come up with one new tool. Lots of smart thinking, smart people, and overall one of the most energetic and exciting sessions of the conference.
Our group took on the task of taking the idea behind the conference— do vs talk— and applying it to the way we do research. Our thought was to create a tool or system that makes research a more active, fluid, and dynamic process, rather than the slow moving dinosaur that it is now (weeks to write questionnaires and surveys, weeks to approve, weeks to field, weeks to report, $100’s of thousands of dollars, for the same blah powerpoint decks). From conversation and sentiment tracking tools many of us are using for free online, to quantitative research, to qualitative— finding a way to take it all and create one simple dynamic, fluid, fast system that addresses the many research needs we often have could lead to a very different way of working. Perhaps most importantly, we felt that this would have major impact on how and when we brief— which lead to the idea of micro briefs, an ongoing, constantly changing and truly collaborative creative process. We were up against the clock and had just a few minutes to slap some slides together to guide the argument, but here’s where we got to: