My spring 2014 student deck Every year, about this time of the year, I do talks to students about the agency business, what it's like, what I do, how I got into "the biz", and offer up some hints and tips to help them at least get some experience in some
Not-so-infinite scroll One of my current pet hates: the phrase "infinte scroll". Never heard of it? Infinite scroll is used to describe websites where you scroll down a web page and content continues to appear as you scroll, um, down. As you scroll more content appears, as you scroll more
The problem with crowd sourcing There's still mumblings about Ben Affleck being cast as Batman in whatever the sequel to Man of Steel is called. If the noise generated by fanboys was acknowledged then Affleck would be out. Someone else would be in. Who? God knows. There's too many alternatives. But
The brains behind spending a $25,000 marketing budget in a creative way Unbelievable. Cool. Awesome. Some of the words used to describe how Casey Neistat decided to spend the $25,000 marketing budget for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on aid for victims of typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines in early November. Neistat made a neat little film of his
Overlooking interactions Somewhere, out there, I have a half-written piece about how playing video games in my youth, my fights with our family microwave, and my frustrations with DVD menus around the turn of the century have helped set up and shape my mental framework for looking at interfaces. That full piece
I miss journalism There's some reasons I do log onto Facebook regularly. Those surprises that enlighten you. Some I subscribe to. Humans of New York, for one (more of which later). Some I don't. This morning doing the rounds is a link about how "wrong" a recent
Cicada 3301 Yesterday I was talking about a stickier internet, experiences that you spend time with and that reward you. This morning I listened to the latest WNYC New Tech City podcast about the Cicada 3301 mystery. Taking its cue from a recent Daily Telegraph article the podcast explored a series of
A stickier internet I'm not keen on retrospective "the year that was" pieces. I'm not being ironic, nor awkward. Handily though 2013 does mark a 12 month period that showed the internet starting to become a more interesting and engaging place again, rising up from being a