In No Particular Order

So, as if I weren’t already “media’d-out” by staying up till 1am each night this week watching the slow-but-winning first series of The Wire out of the 5-series box-set (a wonderful pressie from Vicky who’s trying to wean me off CSI…) I have just received in t’post the beautifully produced and weighty 20th Anniversary Dilbert [...]

Sigh – maybe it’s ironic? Or a graphic designer’s claim that an apostrophe can live above a random letter?
Apostrophe is more like ‘Nopostrophe’ with their season’s greetings…

These my micropostings and bookmarks – December 18th through December 27th:

nativeclient – Google Code – A further step towards the browser supplanting the operating system?
While google's Native Client plugin is still simply that, it's clear that Google's seeing itself in the middle of the information cycle: finding stuff (google search), reading stuff (Chrome qua [...]

zapposinsights.com
Well well – this is a fun idea. Zappos, a US$ 1 billion etailer that’s done for shoes what Amazon did for books, has created a ‘club’ for the “Fortune One Million” group.
The club, c$40 a month membership, is a mix of video content, happy-clappy employee indoctrination videos and general bigging-up of the company culture. [...]

These my micropostings and bookmarks – December 10th through December 12th:

Small Flags – Joy! Here, in one place, all of the flags you could want ready for those i18n sites!
A service to mankind. Manuel Giorgini we salute you.
FixMyStreet – iPhone app. – MySociety are/is wonderful, and fixmystreet worked (I had some graffiti removed [...]

The third annual cScape/e-consultancy survey on Customer Engagement has been published, and it’s one of the biggest samples to date.
You can see the press release and e-consultancy’s version, but you should also mosey over to cScape’s Customer Engagement Unit to see Richard Sedley’s introduction and to request a ‘designed’ version of the report [...]

These my micropostings and bookmarks – December 9th from 20:25 to 22:51:

BBC NEWS | Business | Bratz loses battle of the dolls – Yay!!
"Bratz dolls are facing removal from all shops after a US federal court banned parent company MGA Entertainment from making the Barbie rival."
I'm no fan of Barbie, but kudos to her [...]

These my micropostings and bookmarks – December 4th through December 9th:

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Chinese girl gets 'kiss of deaf' – "Kiss of deaf"?? Best pun of the day. Puntastic!
News | UK searches for online discount vouchers grows 133% – NMA – "UK internet searches for discount vouchers have increased by 133% over [...]

So, then, to 4 Millbank to be interviewed on the 7pm SkyNews bulletin about CyberMonday (or, being British, “Mega Monday”).
I was called this afternoon to ask if I’d be willing to appear and comment and of course the answer was ‘yes’. Then I started to feel nervous!
I don’t recall much about the interview itself – [...]

We have a vacancy for a sales manager at Internet Retailing (the magazine, portal and conference for the UK’s multichannel and pure-play etailers). This is an exciting time for IR – our third annual conference was a great success and the mag and portal continue to grow in terms of critical acclaim (from a demanding, [...]

These my micropostings and bookmarks – December 2nd through December 3rd:

Automoblox – I so, so so so soooo want these. Hand-made, modular, delectable model cars. Too good for kids! Or rather, for kids under 40.
Awesome. Thanks to Suzanne for the pointer (but, tellingly, not an actual car as a pressie. Sob).
Jing Project: Visual conversation [...]

These my micropostings and bookmarks – November 30th through December 1st:

Archie Grand – Another in the never-ending series of notebook fetish posts…
Promises a lot: oversewn, nice size, good paper. That said, the joke of the cover title will wear over time and the notebook offers little other than plain paper.
At the date of posting [...]