Book launch. Party. Great DJs. Street Art. Street Food. BigShinyThing. Be There!
Just a reminder that BST’s Anne-Fay is featured in King Adz’s upcoming book
[BST-exclusive image by Adz]
Last year HHCL United’s founder and creative director Steve Henry helped write a book called Change the World for a Fiver: We Are What We Do…
It was full of helpful suggestions of how to save the planet in small ways.
This year he’s planning to contribute to a second book - this time about making the workplace a happier and smarter place. The brief is this: what would make the best ever working environment?
We need your help with suggestions for a poster that would come with the book - basically a list of 500 suggestions to make the working environment a better place - and the ones that are featured will be attributed to the person who suggested them.
Here’s what we’ve come up with so far:
- talk to temps
- know the names of your office cleaners
- always take a lunch break
- use both sides of the paper when photocopying
- don’t pee in the lift
Pls send your suggestions to anne-fay@bigshinything.com and many thanks!
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LIFESTREAM / Jan 7th 2009
What's On...
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WPP's Digital Push - BusinessWeek ["WPP has set up digital training courses for 3,000 managers to find ways to engage customers with tools like Twitter and Facebook, among other new channels." Just a thought, but if you need to train to your so-called 'communications professionals' to use social media then maybe you have the wrong people?] |
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End Times - The Atlantic (January/February 2009) ["what if the old media dies much more quickly? What if a hurricane comes along and obliterates the dunes entirely? Specifically, what if TheNew York Times goes out of business—like, this May? "] |
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Jan 9, 2009: Reflections of a Nomadic Learner in the Age of Ubiquitous Communication at London Knowledge Lab | |
Jan 5th 2009
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vortexbox.org [Bootable CD that turns an old pc into a music server running DLNA] |
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Listing of Scanned Piano Rolls [More scanned piano rolls...] |
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Listing of Scanned Piano Rolls [Archive of MIDI-fied player piano rolls...] |
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Jan 4th 2009
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Tom Wolfe on Radical Chic and Leonard Bernstein's Party for the Black Panthers -- New York Magazine | |
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We posted 2 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Jan 3rd 2009
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AF: “leaving darrell to photograph the poor drowned fox” | |
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Critic’s Notebook - What’s Wrong With Vogue? - NYTimes.com | |
Jan 2nd 2009
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flickurbook [Sync flickr sets with facebook albums. Web-based.] |
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We posted 1 picture on Flickr... | |
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Jan 1st 2009
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We posted 31 pictures on Flickr... | |
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AF: “is getting ready to do a lot of untagging” | |
Dec 31st 2008
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folkrank [an algorithm for ranking in folksonomies] |
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Dec 30th 2008
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MisEntropy: A Whitepaper outlining an Ad Pre-Testing model based on Prediction Markets ["The fundamental principles behind current advertising pre-testing models have hardly changed in the past few decades. This paper argues that it’s time to update the discipline with contemporary paradigms of collaborative thinking and decision-making. Using the thinking behind prediction markets, the paper constructs a completely revamped model for ad pre-testing – offering another avenue for advertisers seeking precious market information, while also clarifying the role played by traditional ad pre-testing."] |
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DB: “ok that's news photo of the year... http://tinyurl.com/5m7p7t” | |
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Ravishing Beasts [Taxidermy blog. Quite something.] |
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AF: “is looking for eye lash glue” | |
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DB: “I didn't realise Conny Plank was dead! Shameful!” | |
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Jan 15, 2009: Digital Cities: Virtual Tools for Creating our Built Environment at The Building Centre | |
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Jan 5, 2009: Preview screening of The Wrestler and Q&A with Mickey Rourke - Soho, London at Curzon Soho | |
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bookoutlines / FrontPage [Even better that just reading the back cover!] |
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Dec 29th 2008
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Need to Know
(Just Say ‘No’ To) Form 696
Running a club night in London will require reporting of all acts and ‘target audience’ to the Met. WHAT?
What Google Is…
Or at least, what it might be up to…
Welcome To The Precariat
The continuation of exclusion, by other means…
Who Watches the (Internet) Watchmen?
Self-appointed internet censors mess with Wikipedia.
New Words
New times call for new words and phrases. The list starts here.
The Only Game in Town
Fingers crossed…
XDR-TB
This matters. Get involved.
Chrome, The Cloud, McCloud
Google explains its new browser, comic-book style
Our Big Shiny Lifestream Thing
Hello, world.
Cute Overlord
Cute Overload’s calendar sold out in a day. We ask, what’s their secret?
The New News
Pew’s latest research on news consumption in the US.
Listless
It’s that time of year again…
Product Displacement
UK culture minister says product placement “contaminates” TV programmes.
BBC Twitters Parliament
A bit more political transparency in the UK
Lessons from Tyra
From supermodel to media brand.
Genius as a Product
And how to make a business from it
IM bttr
Surprise! Using IM improves kids’ linguistic skills.
Twitter “Not Pointless” Shock
Microblogging officially tips over into the mainstream
Web 3.0 Starts Today
No, really.
Nice to Know
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Urban Cookbook Party Reminder!
Introducing Louise Golbey
The debut video of the singer-songwriter and friend of BST.
RIP Nagi Noda
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Harvey Pics
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South Bank Takedown
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