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Ian Fitzpatrick writes, collects and shares things here.

Some of these things have to do with brands, some of them have to do with buildings and places or machines or computers (which are, you know, machines, too). Each of them has to do with people, and the ways in which we respond to the stimuli around us.
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Posts tagged 'crowdsourcing':
Published Feb 03.10

Some thoughtful reading from this morning – time spent trying to wash from my mouth the bitter taste of ABC’s two-hour homage to Milton by way of Coppola-in-the-jungle ((I am referring, of course, to last evening’s LOST season premiere))…all to Aloe Blacc’s terrific Shine Through:

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Categorized as: Ephemera, Notes on Things Seen

Published Oct 21.09

A few days back, I tripped across a brilliant idea called Thounds, best-described via the video below:

For those of you without the requisite patience for video viewing, Thounds is a social platform for the recording and sharing of musical snippets, which can be added-to collaboratively by other users within the network.
This is not a terrifically [...]

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Categorized as: Notes on Things Seen, People and Other People

Published Sep 20.09

A handful of related thoughts, leading to a larger one:
Last week, my new favorite television show, Hung, ended its initial season run on HBO. On a lark, I posted to Facebook and Twitter for recommendations for a new series into which to sink my teeth. 24 hours and a few hundred suggestions later, a handful [...]

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Categorized as: People and Information, Things I Have Written

Published Feb 27.09

To celebrate the institutions’ 150th anniversary, the MIT Museum is crowdsourcing its’ celebratory exhibition, asking users to nominate pieces from their substantial collection for display – 150 of which will ultimately be included.

It’s a wonderful idea, as befits a museum of this regard (it really is a priceless space – one often overlooked even by local residents), and not dissimilar to an idea espoused here with respect to the archives of the American Museum of Natural History.

Read more about MIT’s program here, or go straight to nominating. Better still, plan a visit to the museum itself and see Connections, a new series of works by the Sociable Media Group.

via Everything is Miscellaneous.


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Suggested Reading:

  • Jonathan MacDonald
    Tremendously well-written blog from this UK strategist/planner, with a strong focus on analytic thought and brand evangelism.
  • 180360720
    Helge Tenno, Strategic Director at Oslo agency Screenplay, posts frequently and thoughtfully on directions in mobile and social spaces. He’s a hell of a writer – and his slides make for great reading, as well.