Tightly Curated

From the recent Intelligent Life: The internet makes information billionaires out of all of us, and the architects of our online experiences are catching on to the need to make things creatively difficult.… Read More →

Mr. Anti-Avarice, Fighting Greed

I think the best term for many people’s unease with the workings of the global economy is not anti-capitalist, but anti-avarice. Howard Cooper is the antidote to greedy bankers. After a lifetime of… Read More →

Crazy Busy

From the New York Times Opinionator, with a hat tip to Slate Culture Gabfest: Notice it isn’t generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the I.C.U. or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs… Read More →

Kickstarter UK

Kickstarter, the funding platform for creative projects, is coming to the UK, says Fast Company, picking up this tweet. Pic above, from I Am Not A Virgin, a fashion project out of NYC,… Read More →

Bespoke, On-Demand Magazine Publishing

                        A publishing idea: online readers ‘save’ longform articles to be printed as a bespoke, on-demand magazine. Magcloud will print 32 pages… Read More →

Finding Value Beyond Sepia Snapshots

Never really got into Instagram (the CrossProcess app does quite enough for me), so someone stumping up $1 million to buy it would have looked like a lot of money. $1 billion is… Read More →

Kip Flighty: a Conference Idea for Manchester

  An annual three-day ideas camp featuring 50 bright-but-normal people, in Manchester, name of Kip Flighty. Mornings spent coming up with practical solutions to local problems. No formal lunch, but food supplied. Afternoon… Read More →

No Chinese Surprises

Very much enjoyed listening to the Mr Daisey and the Apple Factory episode on This American Life. Learned a lot, or maybe I didn’t. As Mr Daisey points out maybe it just confirmed… Read More →

Kodak: ‘the Google of its Day’

Enjoyed this article from the Economist: Kodak’s demise in the face of digital photography. As the Fujifilm experience shows, it wasn’t inevitable. By 1976 Kodak accounted for 90% of film and 85% of… Read More →

Kiddie Rocker

One minute of rocking, some flashing lights, possibly a steering wheel/helm, music, a little honking. Worth 50p a go? There are three such Kiddie Rocking machines within 200m in Chorlton, all stood silent… Read More →