Thursday, August 31, 2006

Beatles sue EMI for millions of pounds

YouTube pulls a Facebook

Please help find Dinosaur Jr's gear as it's been stolen

Will the Gravel In Pocket become the new Commodore 64?

Why pageviews are obsolete

Ryan Carson on why he doesn't use social software

Jane and Jeremy are from London

Textura is a site of music reviews

Punk-O-Matic allows you to create your own virtual punk rock band

Say hello to the Museum Of Bad Art

posted by olli @ 22:04  

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Say hello to Spiralfrog offering ad supporting music downloads

We make money not art

Podango is a podcasting station

Factory Records Shadowplayers is a DVD chronicling the Manchester post-punk scene

101 ways to organize your life

The BEAR robot protects wounded soldiers on the battlefield

Federation are from NZ and they make clothing

Lightning Field is a photoblog

Sonicliving is a digital to analog life converter

posted by olli @ 06:13  

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Motel De Moka is a music blog

Say hello to Near-Field Communications. (South Korea, Japan & Finland, please move along. Nothing to see here)

Rojo Magazine features urban artistry from Spain

Sony buys Grouper video sharing site for $US60 Million

Signal vs. Noise on defining your own success

Hitler Cross is a restaurant in Mumbai

Say hello to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud aka "Amazon EC2"

Smuggling iPods into India is big business these days

The Pickle Jar Theory of time management

Sound Portraits offers radio documentaries, audio diaries and more

Satori make clothes in New Zealand

posted by olli @ 22:22  

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Say hello to the cell phones of the future

The Identity Archives Project collects logos and brand identities for you

Qantas says NO! to Dell laptop batteries

$Moneyshot make streetwear from New Zealand

This is your brain on music

Yo La Tengo offers a season pass to beat your ass

37 Signals on "The Long Tail"

BLDGBLOG moves to Los Angeles

The Cube Metroplex in Bristol is making its own Coca-Cola

Research and Design for Mobile Community Developers

Fanconcert helps keep track of new releases and tours for you

posted by olli @ 21:08  

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Pheeder turns your phone calls into phonecasts

Bob Dylan: "Modern music is worthless"

Triple J Unearthed showcases some top new Australian talent

Friendster vs. MySpace round 2

50 Common job interview questions and answers

Say hello to Radiusim

Birdsong offer creative home recordings

Are these the last days of MTV?

posted by olli @ 06:25  

Monday, August 21, 2006

We're blogging from Auckland today - and so a special New Zealand oriented entry for you:

For The Masses showcases the best in NZ design

Auckland's Minus 5 is a bar made of solid ice

Amplifier showcases the best of NZ Music online

Clothing + Tattoos = Illicit

Trinity Apartments offers modern living in Parnell, Auckland

Huffer is not just a clothing label. It's a lifestyle

The Darkroom create beautiful motion graphics and interactive spaces

The Young Guns 2006 campaign is Worth The Pain

Real Groovy is the Amoeba Music of New Zealand

Maori TV is a TV network that offers 90% local programming

Wellington's Jet Bar is one of the world's best

Obscure showcases the best in NZ electronic music

NZ Girl is a site for women of all ages

posted by olli @ 17:43  

Friday, August 18, 2006

shiner.clay will be taking a short break from posting until Monday, the 21st as I'll be in Auckland for the Semi-Permanent design conference.



I'll be posting on my photoblog as we go along, so feel free to check it for updates and the usual blackmail photos.

posted by olli @ 17:08  

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Urban Junkies is a London based e-zine

US network CBS to stream prime-time shows on the internet

Less Rain has a blog not about the weather, but about design

How to write good software documentation

The Pop Montreal festival takes place in October

Google's wi-fi network goes live in Mountain View, CA

Everybody make environmentally friendly coffins

Ten really good points about on-line marketing from Tara Hunt

Has downloading revolutionized the sale of niche music?

Waiter Rant is a blog about waiters, customers and of course, tipping

Where to pee when in New York

posted by olli @ 00:48  

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Logopond is a site for identity and branding inspiration

We're currently loving The Acid House Kings

Springwise offers new business ideas and inspiration from Amsterdam

U.S. Hipsters go on strike. Creative industries on verge of collapse

A List Apart on searching for the perfect 404 error page

Clean freaks unite! It's laundry 2.0

Ypulse is everything you've ever wanted to know about marketing to Generation Y

Say hello to Samsung's new YP-K5

Musicalbear showcases the best new dancehall tracks this month

The AIGA on graphic design as a business tool

posted by olli @ 05:38  

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Banter is a "collection of creativity"

Microsoft is developing a "YouTube for games" for the XBOX 360 platform

News Corp. sites (yes - including MySpace) will now sell download-to-own movies on-demand

The Canadian Design Resource is a blog about exactly what you'd expect

Beatonic offers jazz/funk/roots mixes to you from the UK

Up!House is a funky new pre-fab home now shipping to the US and Canada

What pre-teen girls are learning from The Sims

Say hello to the Hasselblad 39 Megapixel DSLR camera

Montreal staple Maisonneuve announces launch of new sister magazine set for Spring 2007

Nau Pyrata is a Portugese music blog aggregator that will knock your socks off

posted by olli @ 18:45  

Monday, August 14, 2006

Is Not Magazine is from Melbourne and launches in Sydney on the 24th of August

Tvext is a broadband television network

Modelled on a Swedish village, Luodian is a brand new development Baoshan, one of 16 districts in Shanghai

US teens say NO! to watching video on portable devices

Time Magazine's 50 "coolest" websites

Guy Kawasaki on how to get a job in Silicon Valley

Swift: Safari for Windows?

An oldie but a goodie: 37 Signals on Patterns in Web Design

Japander collects wacky Japanese ads featuring well known celebrities

posted by olli @ 01:22  

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Web Anayltics

The Observer on the 15 most influential websites to date

Fleischerei is Berlin's essential T-shirt shop

Coca-Cola does Grand Theft Auto

Motionographer showcases some of the best in motion graphics work

31 ways to lace up your shoes

Omar Figueroa creats surreal drawings of animals

The BBC is planning DAB add-ons to UK mp3 players

posted by olli @ 20:18  

Saturday, August 12, 2006

How do rock bands survive touring?

Mangalooma is a design blog about the UK's Midlands region

Cyberoptix offer a new take on conservative menswear. We like it.

Flickrstorm allows you to search Flickr "magically"

PBS discusses the implications of Web 2.0 in its Mediashift blog

UK based Ofcom offers its thoughts on the Communications Market in 2006

Roteraupe is a German online indie fanzine (auf Deutsch)

Say hello to MIT's energy focused "Manhattan Project"

We really like The Figurines

posted by olli @ 16:40  

Friday, August 11, 2006

Techcrunch has a baby. Say hello to Crunchgear

The beginning of the end for Tower Records?

Ads Of The World showcases the best ads...(wait for it...) from around the world.

Revisiting the Top 40 at age 40

The LA Times profiles the "I'm a Mac" guy

It's the Dawn Of The Knitted Dead

Butterpaper is a blog about design in Australia and New Zealand

Funkstörung says goodbye

Urban Counterfeiters is a blog about design theft

posted by olli @ 19:14  

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Big MySpace fans lists does not equal Big Money? (What about Lily Allen?)

Hoboken, New Jersey vs. The Parking Robot

Say hello to Rome's Museum Of The Souls In Purgatory

The Dwell Design Conference hits San Francisco from 15-17 September

Jellyfish is shopping Web 2.0 style

PSP Downloads are being stalled by DRM

Say Hello to MySpace France

The Digital Music Forum West happens in Los Angeles from 4-6 October

Ralph Lauren store in NYC allows you window shop. Literally.

posted by olli @ 21:44  

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

PointWC is a new French concept in public lavatories (En Francais)

A sneak peek at some of the goodies to be found in OS X Leopard

Say hello to the Sony Mylo

Bebo has overtaken MySpace in UK web traffic (and it's still for sale!)

Say hello to Levis new iPod jeans

Zillow Mobile allows you to value any home right from your mobile phone

Johnny Marr collaborates with Modest Mouse on their 7th album

Web 2.0: The 24 minute documentary

A multimedia presentation on string theory and the 10th Dimension

posted by olli @ 16:22  

Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Refuse Radio: The MySpace for the music industry?

Refreshing Cities brings together new media people in various cities around the world

The Diesel-U-Music Awards is an international music contest focusing on indie, hip-hop and electronica

Nokia buys mobile music company Loudeye for US$60 Million

Dan Hill says Japan-based Graniph make lovely t-shirts. He's right.

Helvetica is a documentary about the typeface (Happy 50th birthday!) and global visual culture

How to crack 128 bit wireless networks in less than 60 seconds. On a Mac.

Bookmooch is a community for exchanging books

Styleboost is a showcase for beautiful websites

posted by olli @ 16:18  

Monday, August 7, 2006

Ulterior Motive make superb Swedish ties and cufflinks

Say hello to Hubpages - "Share what you know - Rake in the dough"

40 ways to be a better game designer

Bluetooth and SMS take dating in Saudi Arabia to new levels

Liveplasma is another music/movie/Pandora meets Google search engine

Oregon Scientific now has pretty cool clock/weather stations from the likes of Phillipe Starck and Stefano Giovannoni

The CBC on the end of print, television and radio

37 Signals says "Don't Believe The Newsweek Hype" over Digg

posted by olli @ 00:51  

Sunday, August 6, 2006

The Cool Hunter showcases the most forward thinking design and culture from around the world

Google rules out selling music a la iTunes

What's really going on at UK Broadcaster ITV these days?

Handselecta make very nice graffiti fonts

Unsurprisingly, Time Out Beirut halts publishing for the time being

MySpace members now entitled to contract free Helio (For a limited time only, of course)

Sub Pop is certified green. It now uses renewable energy to run its offices

posted by olli @ 16:56  

Saturday, August 5, 2006

Re-Nourish offers nutrients for the graphic design community

The tangled web of Syriana

Slayer is streaming a preview of their new album over at their MySpace page

View all your Mac OS X apps at once via Todos

Remix music and share it on Youspins

MechWarrior becomes reality - Say hello to the Land Walker

The business model of Web 2.0 explained

In Discussion Now: The future of Melbourne

posted by olli @ 16:41  

Friday, August 4, 2006

The first Ubuntu billboard goes up in Silicon Valley

Serialflasher updates you daily with the latest in Flash based web design

Target opens its own designer boutique store in Los Angeles (Melrose Place & La Cienega)

Lily Allen gets signed to a Hollywood talent agency - a major reason was her 50K+ MySpace friends

samurai.fm is internet radio and mixes from Japan

Hackers have cracked the e-Passport RFID chip

Photos from the mp3.com liquidation

posted by olli @ 16:39  

Thursday, August 3, 2006

Time Warner restructures AOL - Ad sales to replace subscribers as main income

The CBC commisions the public to remix Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen

Republish is a creative/design blog about Berlin

The ZScanner 700 is a fully functional 3D Scanner that costs $US 39,000

The rumours are growing that Apple will release "a dizzying amount" of new products at the 2006 WWDC

The Guardian G24 - print the news on a .pdf to read on the train or bus, five times a day

Yahoo! launches "Yodel" - its corporate blog complete with a virtual tour

The YouTube clip of Stephen Colbert rallying the troops to hijack Wikipedia. It's Wikiality!

posted by olli @ 16:47  

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Say hello to Imagekind - It's like Cafe Press for art

Eons.com is the MySpace for the 50+ crowd (Now with special death alerts!)

Lindsay Lohan fired by Island records for missing promotional campaign

YouTube overtakes MySpace in global internet traffic

For the football (soccer) fan who has everything - Bespoke footwear

How do you turn a neighbourhood into a destination? (.pdf)

AT&T on Net Neutrality: "Nobody gets a free ride"

posted by olli @ 17:55