“You can move around the map by clicking on the coloured spheres: clicking on the smallest spheres takes you deeper into an argument, clicking on the largest sphere takes you back up.”

The Independent put up a nice interactive click-through map with information and arguments about the crisis of newspaper and the digital age raised by Clay Shirky, Richard Posner, Jeff Jarvis, Roy Greenslade, Howard Kurtz, Gavin O’Reilly etc. (via)

“The TV networks saw an opportunity in this failing and created a competing video service, Hulu. It offers mostly commercial video, most of it taken from TV, but it is as convenient and accessible as YouTube. Because the content is a known quantity, often the same thing advertisers are already buying on TV, they’re happy to insert their commercials as pre-rolls, post-rolls, and even interruptions in the programming. It’s free, of course, but unlike on YouTube, you’re paying something in time and annoyance—just like on regular TV. However, if it’s 30 Rock you want, and you want it now, in your browser, this is the simplest way you’re going to get it.

The YouTube model is totally free — free to watch, free to upload your own video, free of interruptions. But it doesn’t make money. Hulu is only free to watch, and you have to pay the good old-fashioned way, by watching ads you may or may not care about. Yet it generates healthy revenue. These two video outlets illustrate the tension between different variations on the free business model. Although consumers may prefer 100 percent free, a little artificial scarcity is the best way to make money.”

The Book Free: ‘The Future of a Radical Price’ from Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson is available for 26.99 $, but – would be a paradox if not – you can download the audiobook for FREE from the website.

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Timo send this clip today which received a Gold Lion in Cannes. Amazing, stunning, unreal… Great story, quality, music and and and all realised by Stink Digital London. We still don’t know how this was done. Loop it to get the whole story.
“The film, titled Carousel, is the centrepiece of the project. On its own, it clocks in at a (totally coincidental) two minutes and 19 seconds, but Berg conceived it to work as an endless loop. Visitors to the microsite therefore have the option to ‘spin’ through the film’s single take shot repeatedly, to stop on a specific frame, or to watch it at the preordained speed. The film also contains embedded hotspots, which, when triggered, transport the viewer seamlessly from the heavily posted film to a behind-the-scenes version of the same shot. This constant moving between two layers of reality proved one of the project’s biggest and most ambitious production challenges. Other details of the online execution play off the cinematic theme; the microsite’s loader doubles as a credit sequence, while rich media takeover banners drive traffic to the site by teasing viewers with an original Carousel trailer.”

Here is the campaign website and here the clip in hi-res on Michael Fakesch’s site.

“To put it bluntly, are designers who create visually compelling sites simply wasting time and treasure on graphic indulgences that obstruct efficient e-commerce and communication?” – read the whole article on alistapart.com (via)

Brilliant presentation by Jon Hicks on the creation and usage of icons for webdesign. Very insightful. (via)

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Recent scenes from the ISS – The Big Picture
Unbelievable, beautiful sights. Pure nature.

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