How long could you go without a computer? Three Carleton College students take on the challenge of giving up their computers to see how their academic, social, and work lives are affected. No Google. No Facebook. No e-mail.  How will they get their work done? Will they cheat? Who will survive the longest? This documentary follows students Andrew, Caitlin, and Chel as they go through “digital detox” and learn to interact with themselves and with others in ways we have largely forgotten.
“Consistently funny, philosophical… casually ingenious!” -Rob Nelson, Film Critic
“A …

We all deserve a bit / lot of happiness in our lives and Coca-Cola would agree with that sentiment.
Back in January I featured Coke’s Happiness Machine on this blog – a really nice video concept which made it’s way around the web from the US.
Well, the machine has now arrived in London and found it’s way on YouTube today. So far, the clip has racked up just under 3,700 views* – a modest amount compared to the million views that the original video received in it’s first week. However, whilst the impact of the …

Just wanted to share this gem of a story with you all by the genius that was Douglas Adams (author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy):
This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong.
I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a packet of cookies. …

Ethan Zuckerman studies how the world (the whole world) uses new media to share information and moods across cultures, languages and platforms. His TED talk earlier this summer focuses on how our growing reliance on the localised web as a news source means that we are becoming more and more isolated from the plight of our fellow net-zens in other global regions:
Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the …

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I was forced kicking and screaming to go and watch The Expendables last night by the missus (instead of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – which is what I wanted to see) and the best thing about the whole sorry experience was the following ad from Estrella Damm Beer which was much better than anything Stallone could pen and direct:

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Yes, it’s long, but isn’t it fab? Kinda got an Y Tu Mamá También vibe about it (except with two women and one …

Sometimes, ignorance wins out over tmi (too much information)…

[Via MUO]

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Search and ye shall find… well that’s what Google thinks, but sometimes when you want to tap into the collective search listings of the world, even Google Trends and Google Insights for Search don’t give you that quick snapshot that you’re looking for. That’s where the new Google Beat episodes look to help out.
The short YouTube vids briefly discuss the week’s hot web search trends and aim to give us a flavour of what is trending on Google. In this first epsisode, Google’s Anne Espiritu (who has probably prompted many image searches in …

Going off topic here to plug a new film that’s coming out at some point in 2011.
‘PETER’ – A Study for a Portrait of a Serial Killer, is a feature length drama containing genuine archive that takes the audience on a unique journey into the mind of Peter Sutcliffe ‘The Yorkshire Ripper’.
My wife Stéphanie is the Production Manager on this feature so I’ve got an invested interest in the success of the project but even so, PETER looks like a corker of a film. I’ve had to endure a year of …

Google’s long history of acquisition, innovation, experimentation, successes and failures is dotted with household names (YouTube) and forgotten brands (Jaiku anyone?).
The following Infographic from Mashable puts Google’s Social Media history into the contect of a timeline. I for one, refuse to get excited by the prospect of Google launching it’s Facebook competitor Google Me particularly as I’ve often thrown the full weight of my enthusiasm behind the likes of Orkut, GoogleWave, SideWiki and Aardvark only to be bitterly disappointed.
Anyhooooo….

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