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To listen to. To watch. The Manual. A Quietus Interview | An Unpublished Interview With Hunter S. Thompson. On 17th October 1998 I was highly fortunate to conduct a telephone interview with the late, great Doctor of Journalism Hunter S. Thompson for an article for the long defunct movie magazine Neon. What follows below is a straight transcript (never before printed) of the whole phone conversation with Thompson at his heavily fortified home Owl Farm, Woody Creek, Colorado.
It was at Owl Farm, on 20th February 2005, that Thompson took his own life with a gunshot after a long period of illness. During the 1960's and 1970's, as an anti-establishment writer Thompson famously championed all the freedoms of the era. Thompson's bold and innovative strategy was to place the journalist at the very heart of a story, until he becomes the central protagonist.
It was this perspective that inspired Thompson to coin the term 'gonzo journalism'. He was born Hunter Stockton Thompson on 18th July 1937, in Norton Infirmary, Louisville, Kentucky. Hunter S. Doctor Thompson? HST: Yeah, I just heard something. Yes. BBC Internet Blog: Video Demo for new BBC iPlayer Apps. The External World - FLIP MODE. Dale Dougherty: We are makers.
Google Demo Slam: Grow Google. Flying Lotus | Trigger Webcam Application | Unlock and Download Cosmogramma Alt Takes MP3s. Some inspirational things for a Friday - Walk in the park, look at the sky. Walk in the park, look at the sky. 7 Jan 2011 Some inspirational things for a Friday It's been one of those weeks this week when I've been bumping into many wonderfully inspiring things; new things and older things. Here's a few of them... Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration :: Articles :: The 99 Percent In The Bag OK, an article about the humble brown paper bag may not get your heart racing but there's beauty in that everyday workhorse. Paola Antonelli at Creative Mornings One of the smartest design people on the planet and you should always take time to listen to what she has to say. This American Life podcast: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes From 2008, a departure from the usual format but just as good. Citizen Kubrick From 2004, inspring article about journalist Jon Ronson's hunt for "rosebud" in the Kubrick archives.
Have a fab weekend. Permalink 4723 Views Comments 0 Comments Leave a Comment To leave a comment on this posterous, please login by clicking one of the following. Tags. 20 predictions for the next 25 years | Society | The Observer. 1 Geopolitics: 'Rivals will take greater risks against the US' No balance of power lasts forever. Just a century ago, London was the centre of the world. Britain bestrode the world like a colossus and only those with strong nerves (or weak judgment) dared challenge the Pax Britannica. That, of course, is all history, but the Pax Americana that has taken shape since 1989 is just as vulnerable to historical change. In the 1910s, the rising power and wealth of Germany and America splintered the Pax Britannica; in the 2010s, east Asia will do the same to the Pax Americana. The 21st century will see technological change on an astonishing scale. By 2030, the world will be more complicated, divided between a broad American sphere of influence in Europe, the Middle East and south Asia, and a Chinese sphere in east Asia and Africa.
Nevertheless, America will probably remain the world's major power. 2 The UK economy: 'The popular revolt against bankers will become impossible to resist' Intel Visual Life - The Sartorialist. 10 business models that rocked 2010 - by @nickdemey. 12 of the Year's Best Ideas in Interface Design [Slideshow] | Co.Design. This past year, we brought you stories on everything from tweeting toddler toys and streamlined ATMs to news-reading apps and remote controls that magically change channels with a wave of the hand. Though wildly different from one another, these projects share a common denominator: They all display intriguing user-interface innovations. User interfaces, when done well, are the unsung hero of product design.
They're the difference between a printer whose buttons you can figure out without even reading the instructions and one you want to throw across the room. Now, with the rise of personal computing, interfaces are more relevant than ever before, providing the crucial link between physical objects and the virtual world. Dashing through the snow... with NORAD and Google. (Cross-posted from the Lat Long Blog) Every Christmas Eve, children all over the world ask themselves—and their parents—questions about Santa’s magical journey. How does Santa visit so many children in one night? Will he eat the cookies I left out? How does he fit all those presents into his sleigh? These childhood mysteries are part of what makes the Santa tradition so special. There’s one timeless question that we’re proud to say we can help answer: Where in the world is Santa at this very moment?
Starting tomorrow, December 24 at 2:00am EST, visit www.noradsanta.org to follow Santa as he journeys around the world delivering presents to children in more than 200 countries and territories. See Santa on a Google Map: On your home computer or laptop, visit www.noradsanta.org and choose your preferred language. As we approach this year’s Christmas Eve adventure, Santa was able to take a break from the preparations to visit the New York Stock Exchange this past Monday. iPads lures readers from print | Media. Uncil spending cuts: interactive map | Society. TotalFinder brings tabs to your native Finder and more! The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room. Dana Settle & I hosted a dinner with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media.
Michael Ovitz, the co-founder of CAA was the keynote speaker. Nobody can predict 100% what the future of television will be so I won’t pretend that I know the answers. But I do know that it will form a huge basis of the future of the Internet, how we consume media, how we communicate with friends, how we play games and how we shop. Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge.
The digital living room battle will take place over the next 5-10 years, not just the next 1-2. While we won’t get through all of this, here are some of the issues in the industry that I plan to bring up and ones I hope we’ll discuss tomorrow: 1. The device itself will have no storage. So it is unsurprising to see companies like Sony, Logitech & Intel partner with Google. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Big Money Medium, Sub-Optimal Creative: Why Now is the Time for a Creative Revolution in Digital Advertising. 4thought.tv. Hackers! 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web. Which generation do you belong to? | USA TODAY. Refine - Project Hosting on Google Code. BJ Fogg's Behavior Model. Design competition - Design the cover for the Creative Times annual.
Creative Times is a Manchester-based online magazine for the creative community – produced by and for people working in the creative sector. We’re committed to showcasing creative talent in all its forms; through videos, articles and regular profiles. We aim to provide both inspiration and information for people working (or looking to work) in the creative sector. The site was re-launched in May 2010, and since then we’ve had a fantastic range of people featured on the site, including designer Trevor Johnson, writer Sophie Hannah, film-maker Mike Leigh, Doves, I Am Kloot, and singer-songwriter Nancy Elizabeth – to name just a few. Anyone can post their own news, events, opportunities or portfolio directly onto the site, too. In December this year we are launching our first ‘Creative Times Annual’, which will be an eBook created using the ‘myebook’ platform. Why Facebook Browsing Annihilates Web Browsing.
Recent research suggests that Facebook is overtaking search engines in terms of "time spent" on the web. Want to see where the trendline is heading? Take a look at young female Facebook users, who spend as much as 5 hours on the site per day—and almost no time on the wider web. You'd better get your brand's Facebook page in order. Here's how and why. Back in April, Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook’s “Open Graph” initiative, an Internet-wide protocol for making any webpage “equivalent to a Facebook page.”
Marketers have been some of the most enthusiastic adopters of social plug-ins, which allow brands to convert impressions into lasting relationships. Around the time of the Open Graph launch, this line of thinking caused speculation that Facebook was headed for a fight with Google. To people familiar with Facebook, this behavior, of course, is not unexpected. What does this kind of behavior mean for online marketers? Evangelist. An Event Apart: Emotional Interface Design. (Video) Jason Fields: PSFK CONFERENCE LONDON 2010. Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software. Google Demo Slam. Agile Marketing. Image courtesy As part of my ongoing obsession with all things agile, I've written up a summary of some key practices around Agile Marketing, building on the principles outlined in The Agile Manifesto.
This is also cross posted over on The Marketing Society blog: The last IBM Global CEO Study (‘The Enterprise Of The Future’) interviewed 1,130 CEO’s in 45 countries and 32 industries, and found that organisations not only felt bombarded by change, but that many are struggling to keep up. Eight out of 10 CEOs saw significant change ahead, and yet the gap between the expected level of change and the ability to manage it had almost tripled since the previous study in 2006.
That’s pretty serious. Late last year Forrester released a report on ‘Adaptive Brand Marketing’. We live in exponential times. But what does that actually mean? 1. 2. Corporate ritual places high value in inputs – productivity, documentation, meetings. 3. 4. Home. “Distraction,” Simplicity, and Running Toward Shitstorms. It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. —Albert Einstein, “On the Method of Theoretical Physics” (1934) Context: Last week, I pinched off one of my typically woolly emails in response to an acquaintance whom I admire. He’s a swell guy who makes things I love, and he'd written, in part, to express concern that my recent Swift impersonation had been directed explicitly at something he'd made. Which, of course, it hadn’t—but which, as I'll try to discuss here, strikes me as irrelevant.
To paraphrase Bogie, I played it for him, so now I suppose I might as well play it for you. (n.b.: Excerpted, redacted, munged, and heavily expanded from my original email) And, then, I jizzed on at length about how much I admire the recipient’s work. Good work doesn’t need a cookie I may admire your work, too. Nope. Yes. No. Black Holes May All Contain Other Universes. Ze Frank's web playroom. Partners & Spade: PSFK Conference New York 2010.
Where Good Ideas Come from, Steven Johnson - 9781594487712. Dan Hon: PSFK CONFERENCE LONDON 2010. Boots Advantage Card signs up third parties online. Boots has extended its Advantage card loyalty program by allowing customers to collect points at other retailers including ASOS and Thomas Cook. The health and beauty retailer is launching the Boots Treat Street initiative to allow cardholders to collect reward points with other online retailers and redeem them at Boots. It’s targeting women who prioritise spending on friends and family, encouraging them to collect extra points online and use them to treat themselves.
Boots has also released research revealing that 67% of women have difficulty finding the time or money to treat themselves. ASOS, Ebay, Thomas Cook and Toys ’R’ Us are among the online retailers to join the Boots Advantage programme. Cardholders can collect Advantage points by shopping with more than 50 brands through the Treat Street web portal. This story first appeared on marketingweek.co.uk. Pawned. Gamification and Its Discontents. What You Can Learn From H&M’s Use Of Social Media. H&M is one of the businesses that has done some great work in using social media for marketing. Here is what you can learn from the company to achieve a more engaging and growing community. Amuse your customers When entering H&M’s Facebook page, you’ll see a number of choices under a tab called “Your H&M”. Among other things, you can go to the “Style Guide” or “H&M TV”.
It’s fashion entertainment and you have the remote in your hand to choose whatever you want to. It’s easy to navigate and you find current content. People can visit the page to be inspired or just get some fashion amusement. This brings a stronger approach to H&M as a provider of more than clothes – they provide all the news, inspiration and updates in fashion. When creating a Facebook Page for your business, you want people to visit your page more than once. What value do we bring our customers? Involve your customers H&M does a great job involving their customers. Similar Posts: Be Sociable, Share! Crunching ASOS financial results: yes, fans do boosts sales. Online clothing retailer ASOS, super popular with the twenty-something Facebook generation, is the Zappos of Europe, building a massively loyal online community around its latest fashions.
This social-savvy formula appears to be making even the company bean-counters happy, as the dot-com reported this week a fat profit and double-digit sales growth in an otherwise tough retail market. Always curious about the connection of community-building and its impact on sales, we take a look here at the relationship between its social media investment and its impact on the top line. In case you missed it earlier this week, it’s official: ASOS is making bank. It’s now the UK’s leading online retailer, beating out Topshop.com nationally, and it just reported a 35% rise in revenues and added 320,000 customers in the last fiscal year.
For starters, ASOS is hitting its core customers–the 16-34 demographic–where they hang out most: Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter. About MePlease. NFB/Interactive - National Film Board of Canada. At the NFB we like change. For 70 years we've experimented, innovated, and produced a legacy of technical and creative firsts in cinema, animation, and documentary. Think McLaren, Lipsett, Brittain, and Jutra; Stereoscopic 3d, VTR, and participatory media. Today, the way we create, consume, and connect with each other changes by the minute. And this evolving collection of stories reflects that reality. It's the result of artists and storytellers of all sorts utilizing new technology, to explore new forms of creation, for a new kind of Canada. The stories they're telling here are new, but share a lot in common with the work that came before: they present distinct voices, strong points-of-view, and unique perspectives. So let the conversation begin. Scary or otherwise.
Get It - Google TV. Google TV software comes built right into some TVs, but if you don’t want to buy a new TV you can simply buy a set-top box that plugs right into any HDTV and gives you exactly the same functionality. There are no recurring fees and it even updates itself automatically. Buy online Add Google TV to nearly any HDTV.
Sony’s innovative remote control is optimized for Google TV with a large touchpad, backlit keyboard and a 3-axis motion sensor for gaming. One box. Mischer'traxler the idea of a tree. How the iPad is Transforming Web Design. The future of news. BooneOakley.com - Home Page. Rightcliq by Visa | Smarter Online Shopping. Always beautiful. Google Chrome Speed Tests. What I meant to say at lift - part two - big red. Kjell Ekhorn (Non-Format) talks about «Wheel of style» at OFFF 2. The future of self service banking.
Lee Clow & Alex Bogusky Part One - Storytelling & The Future. What I meant to say at lift - part one - sharing. Hooray for the everyday!