Posted by: Courtney Kuehn on: February 6, 2009
Lately I’ve been adding more Twitterers to follow on Twitter (reading this just sounds so geeky, but I’m a bit of a geek I admit). One such Twitterer I’m now following is @adagencylayoffs, who tweets on, you guessed it, agency layoffs. Upon a quick scan, I was shocked, surprised and a bit deflated to read [...]
Posted by: Courtney Kuehn on: October 22, 2008
I love this image. Spied on WIRED by Josh McHugh. By the Swiss graphic designer Martin Woodtli. The image accompanies a story on Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson’s forth-coming book, The Superorganism. Given the color and intensity of the image, my first thought was that this WIRED story was specifically about art, a new technology, or [...]
Posted by: Courtney Kuehn on: July 18, 2008
“Facebook in Reality”, amusing and fairly spot-on in its humanized interpretation of the social interactions possible within Facebook. (This was on the BBC Three show The Wall.) Specifically, it paints a straight-forward story of the questionable actions we seek to make with our Facebook friends. For example, do we need to associate with our neighbor [...]
Posted by: Courtney Kuehn on: May 13, 2008
Current TV created a hilarious, spot-on how-to for navigating the path to love in today’s text-addicted culture. Watching (and laughing) at this video got me thinking…While I do a fair amount of texting in general, compared to my circle of friends, I still believe in actual phone conversations. When it comes to romantic relationships – [...]
Posted by: Courtney Kuehn on: November 9, 2007
Though it’s been out for a while, I only just saw Blood Diamond the other night. I was watching with a friend and I mentioned Camp Okutta, which I wrote about in a previous post. For some reason I didn’t expect Blood Diamond to be so graphic, but what was I expecting, given the film’s [...]
Posted by: Courtney Kuehn on: October 17, 2007
Not too new, but worth posting – Photosynth creates “multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features” which truly amaze. Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrates its capabilities in this demo.
Posted by: Courtney Kuehn on: October 11, 2007
Another example of the power of social networking sites/communities banding together to get what they want. 14,000 users in ‘bring Wispa back’ groups in 93 groups fans posted 1980s spots fans joined online petitions The result? A temporary revival of the chocolate bar (23 million) to test the sales demand. Ok, who wants to start [...]
Posted by: Courtney Kuehn on: October 4, 2007
Here’s another example of the idea of planning for good: Ideablob, recently launched by Advanta Bank Corp., is a social networking platform that gives entrepreneurs and small business owners the space to share ideas and potentially win $10,000 to help their business grow. ” IdeaBlob is where entrepreneurs and small business owners can share and [...]
Posted by: Courtney Kuehn on: September 29, 2007
One mysterious Ann (no email, no profile) has set up the beginnings of a story in the hopes of publishing it and donating the profits to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Write a Sentence to Help Save Lives was thought up by Ann, who starts the story off with one sentence [...]
Posted by: Courtney Kuehn on: September 29, 2007
Hilarious. I get it. Is that bad?
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