October 2009

AKQA showed this at a meeting on Tuesday, talking about collaboration and the power of crowd-sourced creativity – all the usual stuff we always bang on about.
But this is incredible. It’s a music video from a fairly sketchy band called Sour. They got their fans to work together to make a video for their new song. [...]

ok, ok – sorry for the appalling headline  pun… I nipped out for a sneaky glass of wine at half nine the other night to read the paper, but instead bought the New Scientist instead which I do sometimes; nice read but my head would go numb if i read it weekly.
Some very interesting stuff in [...]

 The leaders of the 27 EU member states will meet in Brussels this Thursday to thrash out the remit of the new president for EU, with some of the smaller states favouring a low-profile role involving little more than chairing meetings:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6889786.ece
 
Mr Blair is very much in the running to take on this role. His opponents, [...]

If the Republic Blog’s reporting of Andrew Windsor’s speech about Bankers’ Bonus’ is accurate, then his words simply beggar belief:
“I was brought up to do this sort of work. It is training, experience and genetics. We offer consistency and regularity. We have been around for a long time and will be around for a long [...]