UX Week 2012 | Austin Kleon | Steal Like An Artist. 50 Artists & Creatives Who Support Scottish Independence. National Collective’s Ross Colquhoun was challenged by a Unionist friend to name 20 artists and creatives who support independence – he managed to name 50. This is the list. AL Kennedy // Writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction (Source) “The more Westminster disappoints, then the more attractive and untraumatic independence may seem. And perhaps that’s a telling detail – when one partner cares about a break-up and the other is halfway to moving on, perhaps the relationship has had its day.” Alan Bissett // Award-winning author, playwright and performer (Source) “This is our one chance to vote for something better than the depressing, careerist, London-first politicians we’ve grown used to.
Alan McGee // Founder of Creation Records (Source) “Scotland should have more powers. Alan Cumming // Stage, television and film actor (Source) “I believe that independence can only add to our potential and to release a whole new wave of creativity, ambition, confidence and pride. Elaine C. How to Create Your Self-Improvement Plan. I became passionate about self-improvement over a decade ago, and I started helping others with their self-improvement as a coach more than half that time ago. I strongly believe that developing oneself is one of the best actions a person can take and that self-improvement ultimately leads to more achievements and happiness in one’s life than anything else. However, I also realized quickly that it’s not enough to randomly read self-improvement books and apply from them whatever sound cool to you, whenever you can remember and you feel like it. Effective self-improvement requires some deliberate and careful planning.
I want to show you, drawing from my own experience, how to create a good self-improvement plan, which you can use to see the most fruitful results in your self-growth. 1. Start by Recognizing the Limits Like it or not, you can’t achieve meaningful changes overnight. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. It’s not my intention here to discourage you from seeking self-growth. 2. 3. The 35 Greatest Animal Photobombers Of All Time. 13 Bona Fide Geeks to Follow on Twitter. Pros and Cons of ‘going freelance’ Don’t worry! We know it can be a scary prospect, you are making a jump into the great unknown…it’s a place where you won’t be reporting to your boss, where you will find yourself doing different jobs you may never have done before…. being a sales person, your own marketing department, the decision maker, and the grafter…. but is it worth it?
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One of the top buzzwords heard at SXSWi was “transmedia”. Interestingly this term is neither new or revolutionary. So what in the hell is “transmedia”? Sounds like something from a D-grade movie, eh. Okay, that’s a little broad. Bravo TV and AMC TV are doing transmedia right! Popular in the entertainment industry, transmedia is redefining the consumer experience. In addition to utilizing the online channel, Top Chef continued their Fan Favorite contest where viewers vote for their favorite cheftestant via text. Lastly, they added a games section to the site for further audience participation (uh, distraction).
How can your company become transmedia? Image by Ogilvy. Social Media: If Content Is King, Then Storytelling Is Queen. 18 Checkpoints To Consider. In my previous post, I touched on content marketing and I emphasized throughout the post the importance of quality content. But what does that mean? If content is king, surely storytelling must be queen! What do I mean by this? I think storytelling is an important part of blogging. I have read many blogs, articles and as I step back to reflect on those that I would consider to be the cream of the crop, I can identify three components to online storytelling. Furthermore, each component has 6 key checkpoints. The three components are: The Story - the actual content and substance of the blog;The Goals – as it relates to the post and what you are trying to achieve with the audience; andThe Delivery- how the content is conveyed.
Now lets look at the six checkpoints of each component. The Story The Audience. The Goals There may be a number of goals that you are trying to achieve with your post. Connect. The Delivery The delivery is just as important as the story itself. Is it Natural? Cheers! How to Create a Tumblr Theme (Code Structure) As we have previously seen, Tumblr allows its uses to create custom themes, giving the owner of a tumbleblog the ability to truly customise their tumbleblog to be their own. While Tumblr coding is fairly easy to pick up compared to other more complex blogging systems, I want to give you an insight into the code and structure we are going to be deploying next time around when we set about converting a PSD to Tumblr. Understanding the basics Before we get stuck into the Tumblr code, you need to first know what a Tumblr theme looks like.
Gone are the gazillion template files of other CMS’s; Tumblr uses one and only one. A single page of HTML, with the CSSs and scripts in the head of the file is all you’ll need. Now that you know how a theme looks, we are going to look at two simple concepts that make our single HTML page into a fully dynamic Tumblr blog. Variables are exactly what the name suggests. Blocks, on the other hand, are a sort of step up from variables. Html hHead Basic Variables. Getting started in Transmedia Storytelling. 8 social curation tricks for Pinterest and beyond (single page view)
Curation is a long-standing tradition of collecting, saving, and organizing objects. This typically consisted of books and historical materials for museums or organizations that held historic value for culture preservation. Today it takes on a different meaning. Organizations have evolved from collecting artifacts to digital curation of media and content. While the role of curation has largely belonged to scientists and scholars, and the content from official sources, social media has tipped curation on its head.
Heck, even the Library of Congress decided to begin archiving tweets in October 2010. That says a lot about how important what we the people say and post is to world history. Today's web does not limit the act of curation to those with a doctorate degree. Why do people spend hours online bookmarking, pinning, and reposting? Of course, when human behavior shifts, brands are quick to follow suit. The Book Bench: White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in Hunger Games. On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian young adult trilogy, “The Hunger Games,” logged onto the popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and created a site he called Hunger Games Tweets.
The young man, whom I’ll call Adam, had been tracking a disturbing trend among Hunger Games enthusiasts: readers who could not believe—or accept—that Rue and Thresh, two of the most prominent and beloved characters in the book, were black, had been posting vulgar racial remarks. Adam, who read and fell in love with the trilogy last year, initially encountered these sorts of sentiments in the summer of 2011, when he began visiting Web sites, forums, and message boards frequented by the series’s fans, who were abuzz with news about the film version of the book. (The movie, released a week ago today, made a staggering $152.5 million during its first three days of release.) “I was pumped about the Hunger Games. Cinco de Mayo piñata cookies. Video how-to: Pinata Cookies Ingredients: 1 cup sugar1 cup powdered sugar1 cup butter1 cup vegetable oil2 eggs1 teaspoon cream of tartar1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon almond extract1 teaspoon baking soda5 cups flour1 tablespoon vanillaMini M&M candies1/2 cup powdered sugar (frosting)2 teaspoons milk (frosting) Directions to make piñata sugar cookies: Cream sugars with butter.
Split dough into five, even-sized balls and one smaller ball (this will be the black one). Use a container the same approximate width of your donkey/burro piñata cookie cutter, and line it with plastic food wrap. Cover the layered dough and freeze for four hours or overnight. Remove the dough from the container and unwrap from the plastic. Immediately after you take them out of the oven, use your burro piñata cookie cutter to cut the cookie shapes. Create the hidden pocket For the middle cookies in each set, cut off the ears and legs, and cut out the center where the M&Ms will go. Assembling the piñata cookies. How to get more likes on Facebook.