Don’t miss Southpark’s season 12 episode 6 “Over Logging” about the effects of losing your connection to the internet at home. Remember last time your beloved internet provider left you out in the blank and you had to check your Facebook and IM your pals? Well, you get the feeling.
Funny to see that this episode comes out shortly after Soutpark decided to put all their episodes online with no geographic restrictions. You can’t check this episode online yet due to contractual issues but it will be available in June. If you can’t wait, you know the drill.
Incidentally all the browsers featured in the computers in Southpark are Mac OS Safari showing a distressing “You are not connected to the internet message” (The TV station though shows a IE not found page).
09/04/08
21 Steps: literature meets Google Maps
No comments Interface + Web 2.0 + Why didn't I think of that?An excellent mashup, or a geo-localized short story written on Google maps bubbles by writer Charles Cummings. I'm halfway through it and about to fly to Edimburgh. Don't tell me the end! Visit the 21 Steps website
28/03/08
The best band in the world is from Barcelona
No comments Barcelona + Music + The real worldLa Banda Municipal del Polo Norte has recorded a demo CD with 5 tracks and a nice sleeve design which features a bear. Its title "Iros Despidiendo de Todo" which would roughly translate for "Say Goodbye To Everything", reminds me of Dougas Adams' So Long And Thanks For The Fish ...
21/03/08
Count basketball passes, get to know your brain better and save some cyclists. Perfect viral campaign.
2 comments AdvertisingDo The Test is the perfect online campaign (yes, viral of course) to raise awarness for cyclist's accidents in the streets of London. In a nutshell: while you are concentrating on driving you can become blind to events that you would normally notice. This "inattention blindness" is in most ...
19/03/08
Oops they did it again: big corporations turning to YouTube for their TV ads.
No comments Advertising + Web 2.0I wrote a while ago about a couple of tv ads "inspired" either by online projects or videoclips available on YouTube. Well, history repeats. A couple of weeks ago I found a gem on YouTube called Daft Hands, where a couple of hands with text on it danced to Daft Punk's ...
07/03/08
Web 2.0, del ego al Lego presentation (in Spanish)
16 comments Teaching + The real world + Web 2.0Here's the presentation to the students of the "Design and Web Programming" course of the " Confederación de Empresarios de Andalucía. You can download the pdf in Spanish here. You can see last year's presentation here.
25/02/08
Google Maps: create a life size marker and get noticed
No comments Art + The real world + Web 2.0Looking for some info on Google Maps API, I stumbled on this project where German artist Aram Bartholl plays with the Google satellite by placing physical Google Maps markers on the ground. Here's a picture: Check Bartholl's other projects where he explores the interactions between the web and the physical world. www.datenform.de - ...
05/02/08
Good Copy Bad Copy - a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture
No comments Internet + MusicI watched this documentary late last night. I just wanted to watch the beginning and let it for today but it turned out to be impossible to stop. The film deals with copyrights, copylefts, intellectual property and how the net is changing well established business models while allowing for reach and ...
03/02/08
200 people frozen in NY Grand Central Station
4 comments The real world + Why didn't I think of that? + YouTubeBrilliant acting from the guys of Improveverywhere.com with 200 people freezing for 5 minutes in NY Grand Central Station. Their motto "we cause scenes". Judge for yourself. Yesterday 185.000 views and today 630.000. Going viral. I'll talk about it Thursday on the radio. Check their other actions in Improveverywhere.com.
02/02/08
Piclens: Image viewing plugin for Firefox with a cinematic interface
2 comments Interface + Photography + UsabilityVia Criterion I discover Piclens, a new plugin for Firefox (Mac & Win) and Safari that allows you to browse images on the web full screen with an advanced cinematic interface. It just blew me away when I fired it up while in my Flickr account. Heres one of my Flickr ...
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