Blip.fm

Everyone is blogging about it at the moment and it does look like a really cool site / application but frustratingly I haven’t had time to get into it yet.  As far as I can make out, it’s all about playing your playlists ‘publically’ (they call it Djing), listening to others, getting feedback on your tunes and giving each other ‘props’ for your selections.  A bit like being in a club, just without loads of p**sed twats knocking into the decks and asking you for some Robbie Williams : )  brilliant.

Data Olympics

From NY Times.  Nice way of showing medal tallies at the Olympics since it began. Medal tally and a countries economic or political strength often to go arm in arm, like Germany being so dominant in 1936.

Another cracking Nike idea

A brilliant new competition on the already brilliant Nikeid site. Both Man U and Arsenal are Nike sponsored teams, so when they play each other (in what is always one of the games of the season), all the players are contracted to Nike. They are currently running a competition to design the actual boots that the players will wear that day. The designs with the most votes get worn. It’s a fantastic idea.  They just get it so right where Adidas get it so wrong.  They are always innovating, always getting things out there.  The Nike marketing department is probably one of the only client side jobs I would be really interested in.

Eyeballing from Filthy Luker

filthyluker blog here

Beijing Olympic opening ceremony

Wow.

I don’t think any of us will ever see something like that again in our lifetime. As a show, it was mind blowing on so many levels. Where do you start? The choreography, the lighting, the sculptures, the length (nearly 4hours), the bugger the expense attitude (it cost between £20-30million according to the papers). How on earth they co-ordinated the whole thing is beyond me. Perhaps it is only possible in a dictatorship. China has a long history of huge choreographed communist rallies and I guess with a population that is used to being marshalled in this kind of way, it’s doable. But can you imagine trying to pull the same thing off in the UK? I would love to know what the British Olympic committee thought. I think we should do the polar opposite of this most grandiose of statements for the opening ceremony in 2012. Perhaps a few cockney one man bands, chaz and dave and some fairy lights.

Probably still go over budget though…..