When Celebrity Blogging Goes Wrong: The Rosespace Affair
Roseanne Barr, the comedian most famous for the hit show Roseanne, has hit the headlines for the first time in years over what we’re calling The Rosespace affair.
Over the weekend a number of posts appeared on her MySpace page with messages such as “I need to stop drinking, but I do not wish to … […]
Excursions In Error Correction With A Broken Leg
I’ve been intrigued with QR codes for a while now as they are in effect 2-dimensional barcodes; a way of storing information that can be retrieved by digital scanning devices.
Normally we think of barcode scanners as laser powered devices that checkout operators use to scan our peaches but, when reduced to its core functionality, […]
Print Advertising To Be Overtaken By Online
A story on FT.com reports that print advertising is expected to be overtaken by online in the US by 2011. The forecast comes from Veronis Suhler Stevenson and suggests that online advertising will grow to $62 billion, with TV forecast to reach $82 billion.
The AOP’s figures for ad spend in the UK suggested that internet […]
Blindin’
Some of the Altogether staff went to the Hayward Gallery last night to see the brilliant Blind Light exhibition by Antony Gormley.
What is Blind Light? It’s exactly that. A disorientating perspex, room filled with dense fog and fluorescent lighting. It kind of gives the same sensation of that when walking in pitch black darkness. You […]
Flickr Music Video Mash Up
Here’s an interesting implementation of a mash-up tool. Create a unique music video that trawls through the lyrics and brings them to life with a relevant image taken from the Flickr pool. You can see the video for Astronaut (the song in question) here.
Music, videos, images… right up our alley. That reminds me of something: […]
Are you being Go-ogled?
I discovered something last night, something about my Google account…
It’s been watching me…
It knows where I’ve been…
I am, of course, referring to Google’s “Web History” feature, a feature that is apparently designed to help you manage your web activity and get results more relevant to me when I search. So they’re using my web history […]
100 Tips To Improve Your Life
It seems as though every blog and his/her mother are creating these top ten, 50 best, 1000 greatest articles. They’re old tried and tested ways of engaging your readers or viewers, creating conversation and reaction. I’ve listed a few of the recent ones on this blog, but here’s another one!
100 Tips to Improve Your Life
This […]
