Pixel Thread

We’ve been working with Think Again and London International Music Show to produce an interactive element to the event. The big and bold site is designed to be projected onto a screen during the show, and continuously updated with new video and audio content captured by a team of reporters.

www.showblog.co.uk

…just like town planning and architecture isn’t just for architects and art lovers, the internet isn’t just for computer users and developers

In this article on Boxes and Arrows - UX Design-Planning Not One-man Show - there’s an interesting diagram showing how user experience design fits into the overall design process.

Sometimes it’s hard to draw lines between the different elements of design, particularly if you are used to working in small teams.

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, which hack the $40 game piece into a digital whiteboard, a touchscreen, and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.

I’ve been thinking for a while that it would be great to set up a design / interactive conference in Bristol. It’s a perfect location, with a small centre, lively web community, lots of great venues around the docks.

But to do it well needs some heavyweights behind it… Bristol Media people have been out to SXSW this year and have been talking about some possibilities on their tumblr (tumblr - wtf? The new twitter that’s the new blogger etc etc??)

Maybe with the likes of Mike Bennett of Bristol Media, Benjamin Hostler of Beef, Hazel Grian of Licorice Media, Andy Parkhouse of Team Rubber and Clare Reddington of iShed, it could happen. It would be great to tempt people away from London for a few days. And great for Bristol’s profile as digital city.

Here’s a great post on Web Worker Daily about managing your time when you’re working online all the time.

I’m about a year too late on this one I think, but ever since I saw the video on you tube, I’ve wanted to be able to link it from somewhere.

A bunch of ‘crazy’ Swedes pretending to be from Barcelona, and singing a song that’s somewere between a football chant a choir and the Beatles. I still like listening to it and I’ve heard it many times.

I think they were unsigned when they posted on youtube, but now seem to have a very flashy website (I like strong colour scheme), but still the best place to hear them and watch the video, is on their MySpace page.

Enjoy.

I’ve been getting a bit disillusioned with the web. There are so many millions of people all hammering away at blogs, sites, forums etc every single day, mostly in a bid to earn their daily bread.

But how many are actually doing something worthwhile during their time online. Of course everyone needs to make a living, but just imagine if every single person gave 10 minutes of their online time to a ‘good cause’.

People could have a positive effect on the World, rather than sitting back and saying what a bad World we live in.

I recently read about another SEO contest, with a Citroen C2 as the top prize. All well and good, but imagine if some of these SEO experts were to put their skills to use in promoting a cause such as savedafur.org…. Imagine how much traffic could be driven to the site.

Maybe we need to set up a contest to drive traffic to Save Dafur, with a decent prize as an incentive.

I’m not preaching - the most good I’ve ever done online is to sign a few petitions, and add a Stop Poverty banner to one of our sites.

What will your legacy to the next generation be? A few full hard drives that can’t be accessed anymore?