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Digital is the infrastructure, the plumbing and wiring, but social is the behavior and quite possibly the glue.
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This is the bit that makes my job get even more interesting every day…
How Social Digital Is Your Company? - David Armano - Harvard Business Review
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The Best Seat In The World
A documentary about Herne Hill Velodrome. The track has known some hard times with its main building now closed-down due to deterioration and political feuds that stopped any long term redevelopment. This is the back drop to a series of moving interviews with cycling enthusiasts ranging from a 1948 Olympic medallist to eight-year-old track users who all want the track to stay open.
Film Screening at Look Mum No Hands, Saturday October 8th, 7pm, 2011
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Five years ago, the iPhone didn’t exist. It wasn’t a need in your life. You were able to live perfectly without it. And now that it does exist, all of that is true.
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Continuing the theme, with a slight twist…
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When I had an iPhone, the Internet was no longer a destination; it was on me every day, like a piece of clothing I put on first thing in the morning. When I get tempted to return to that life, I ask myself: Do I really want the Internet to be something I feel naked without?
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Why I Dumped My iPhone — And I’m Not Going Back
Uncomfortable reading for me. It’s a thought that’s occurred more than a couple of times in recent months. The iPad’s gone already. Could I… could I…?
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Own A Colour And Help Save A Child’s Life
I see a lot of innovative online fundraising activity in my day job. This one from Unicef is just so perfect in its tone, lack of friction and surprising lack of emotion I had to put my hand in my pocket and own a colour. It’s so perfect for the corporate partner too.
In case you’re wondering, it’s Flaming Titian.
Two suggestions:
- Accept paypal. Not having to put my hand in my pocket, fish out my wallet, pull out my card and then type in three unmemorable numbers is just polite.
- Having a non-JS/non-Flash version isn’t just a good idea for awkward gits, but it gives something prettier for Tumblr to extract when people want to post a link to it :)
And not a heart-string-tugging image of kids in peril either… whatever next.
Your turn now - leave a comment below with links to the colours you’ve bought, and why!
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A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike.
(Source: her0inchic)
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Warning: this video will make your brain go a bit funny… (by RaphCoudray)
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An excellent XKCD today. I’ve always been adamant that I wouldn’t go on a wine tasting course - by living in ignorance to the world of high-end booze, I’m saving myself the need to spend fortunes on vintages.
Bike bits, on the other hand…
(via xkcd: Connoisseur)
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But the second thing he explained to me was more subtle and way more powerful. He explained that I should start working on a project as soon as it was assigned. An hour or so would do fine, he told me. He told me to come back to the project every day for at least a little bit and make progress on it slowly over time.
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The Rapha Continental began in 2007, driven by the idea to discover, or perhaps rediscover, the lost art of cycling. Too many riders that we knew had started to lose sight of why we love to ride, slipping into a racer’s mentality and putting our focus on measuring watts, counting calories and doing ‘efforts’. Don’t get me wrong, many of us excitedly pin numbers to our jerseys and line up each week but we’d reached a point where somehow the ends didn’t seem to justify the means.
Love them or hate them, Rapha make some stunning films.
