Putting the 'happy' back into content
I went for a lunchtime wander today and happened upon a beautiful
piece of hidden architecture.
Remember Beenz? How about Lycos? Altavista? Even though it’s still only 20 years old, the web (note, not the internet) has seen more than its fair share of crashes and burns.
This piece from business pundit picks 25 of the most high-profile and tries to pick out some pearls of wisdom from the detritus.
Venture capitalist Paul Graham calls these the ‘elite of failures’. See what you can learn – apart from don’t burn through all your angel money in 6 months flat!
Must confess I’d never heard of steampunk before reading about it in current issue of Wired.
The basic premise is making something that looks faintly Victorian Gothic, and the contraptions are constructed of bits and pieces of other ephemera.
The above model is called Eye Pod, a working steampunk iPod, made using bits of old typewriters and other bits and bobs.
Genius ideas and something that’s genuinely startling, but also impressive.