[Edit: Updated this with a presentation of the list. Slightly modified.] Generation Refresh View more presentations from Thomas Scovell. A personal pledge made public, because you always hold me to it world. Because I love much of what technology and post-modern culture has brought us – but not all of what it has wrought on [...]
NB: This post goes best with the opening track off the Sleigh Bells awesome debut album. So we had somewhat of a response to our not actually a real conference programme. We’d kind of like to just skip the conference and take those who responded out for cocktails. Actually that might happen. The conference though… [...]
Update: This still isn’t real, but if you want to give us your details so we can let you know if anything like it happens (whether as a speaker or attendee) you can go fill out this form. @Gnat was asking for suggestions on how to do a “social media” conference with integrity So we [...]
I’ve been remiss in my donating the past couple of weeks – being busy transitioning between jobs. So I’ll combine two weeks into one entry. We found ourselves watching American Idol Gives Back while getting ready to go out last night. Quite possibly one of the worst mixes of self-promotion and blatant heart-string tugging I [...]
The Webby Awards are not, as they are sometimes touted, “The Oscar’s of the Internet” – but they are a fairly sought after accolade for Digital work. I thought I’d check out who was nominated in the Charitable Organizations category this year. ASPCA are the American Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Their [...]
A few days ago I ran a quick competition for amusing guesses as to what my next job was going to be. Since then I’ve finished, after four years, working with the great folk at Shift and I’m now over at Doubleclique with some more great folk, working as Digital Strategist – which some people [...]
So it was my final day, after four years, at Shift on Friday. Which I mentioned on Twitter and Facebook and it got people to guessing what I was doing next. So I decided to offer to offer $100 to the preferred charity (and a cocktail) of whoever had the most creative idea. I’ve picked [...]
We’ve been watching “The Machine That Changed the World” a 1992 documentary about the history of the computer. You can read more about it here or watch it on Google Video. It’s worth a watch for the history and for some kitsch entertainment seeing both the past and the future through an early 90s lens. [...]
There were the usual come-around-like-clock-work stories in the press this week about violent crime being on the rise. Which always draws the already close-to-the-surface cynic out of me. Not to diminish the impact of crime but rather the media’s sensationalism of it. However, by some coincidence at the end of the week I found myself [...]
Its Plunket’s appeal week and this year they are doing a Superheroes campaign. They have a neat little microsite (disclaimer: produced by some of the great team at my place-of-work Shift) where you can do a range of superhero themed things – which culminate in a dress-up at work day tomorrow. I’m not really a [...]