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Entries Tagged as 'Media'

April 28th, 2008 · Moody to the rescue

Wow! The iTunes plug-in Moody is amazing. Let me explain.
About a year ago I got a 250 gig hard drive, and decided to use that as my main drive for music. Since then, my music collection has been growing. However, I’ve been running into a pattern that I’m not too fond of. I’m getting […]

Tags: Design · Media · Productivity

June 5th, 2007 · London calling

The new logo for the London Olympics in 2012 was unveiled only 24 hours ago, and the reaction has been outrageously negative (at the time of writing, Speak Up’s servers were unreachable, probably due to activity on this popular entry about the logo). 72% of BBC respondents to an online poll give it a wooden […]

Tags: Design · Media · Advertising

May 31st, 2007 · Delicious Skoda

I love ads that make no reference to what the product does. Especially when the product is a car.

Tags: Media · Advertising

May 14th, 2007 · Poor blogging practices at Maclean’s

Paul Wells is a columnist for Maclean’s, which is Canada’s most popular weekly magazine. For over 3 years, Paul has been running a very popular blog called “Inkless Wells“. Wonderful writing on Canadian politics and jazz. Alas, 3 years of blogging “got lost” after Macleans redesigned the website, as Paul writes in an entry […]

Tags: Web · Media · Blogging