Lovers of fonts (aka me) will love this new free collection. All eighteen of them are worthy of downloading and will generate some great ideas.
G’day! Thanks for returning!Courtesy of a tweet from the never-sleeping but ever-readable Chris Brogan comes word of an amazing artist, Chris Jordan.
In his exhibition Running the Numbers: an American self-portrait Chris looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics, but brings them to life through clever imagery.
Witness:
This depicts 2.3 million folded prison [...]
That superb type foundry P22 have just released a fabulous font set – Sniplash.
Originally released as a single font in 2004, this lively and organic font is inspired by the cartoons of the 1960s and 70s. It has been expanded to now include Bold and Light variants.
Sniplash defies serious analysis and offers a [...]
Socially useful sites — ‘what I think about something’ — is the next phase of evolution for social networks, who are mostly currently at the ‘who I am as a person’.
Tying in nicely with my report this week for FIR comes an article from the Beeb about the next development in social networks.
Already there [...]
Guardian angel Jon Hoel from the PR Junction podcast has pointed out that a really horrible security breach is doing the rounds of WordPress blogs.
Says Jon,
Hi Lee,The PR agencies may not have come around yet, but the spammers are certainly giving blogs plenty of attention.
Site hack issue as discussed: HTML appears in your blog posts [...]
Fresh off the press is a five day course that teaches you how to write for business.
You’ve probably always wanted to write better in your workplace, but perhaps there were no training courses around to help you.
Well, now there is.
You don’t have to fly me over to your city to present this five [...]
It’s out now, folks!
[updated: links now work -- oops!] Trevor Cook and I have slaved away in an entirely slavish fashion to produce the all-new, all-singing Third Edition of our runaway best seller. (pssst… it’s free)
In this year’s Edition every chapter [...]
A fascinating article found its way to me courtesy of a link from a new-found colleague of mine, Wendy Rosen.
The NYT reports on a phenomenon that is sweeping the globe — the mobile-based social network.
I thought it was cool to be able to Twitter via my mobile, but that is kiddy stuff compared to [...]
Here’s what happens when 200 New Yorkers decide to co-operate.
From http://www.ImprovEverywhere.com, over 200 people freeze in place on cue in Grand Central Station in New York. Awesome!
Thanks to all the various friends who have facebooked this video in the last few days.
Technorati Tags: improveverywhere , improv , video , new york [...]
Dave Fleet has a very interesting and insightful post on the latest Edelman Trust Barometer report.
Says Dave:
“I’m torn on how to view the evidence here. People don’t seem to be able to decide whether online tools are the next best thing, or are not to be trusted. While the tools are among the least trusted [...]
101 ways to power-up your writing.
