Wear Obama (or Marilyn or a clown) on Your Head
Monday, den 3. November 2008Walking down the street in Manhattan’s East Village last week, we did a double take when we saw a guy wearing a hoodie that had Barack Obama’s face on it, so that it looked like his face was actually Barack’s. Turns out that the hoodie is the creation of Clinton van Gemert, an independent designer [...]
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Introducing : PSFK On Call - Our ‘Phone A Friend’ Product
Monday, den 3. November 2008We’re proud to announce our new service aimed at agencies and small companies. PSFK On Call is a streamlined service that helps creatives, planners, researchers and strategists find new ideas.
The service offers its subscribers access to experts in any sector in any part of the world. This is supported by a PSFK analyst report [...]
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Dov Charney’s Concern About Being Shut Down By The Feds
Monday, den 3. November 2008In a featured article in Portfolio magazine, American Apparel founder and CEO Dov Charney talks about his concerns about getting his factory shut down by the US Immigration department. Dov believes that a number of his high profile ads discussing immigration and the plight of illegal workers prompted a reaction by the government:
Charney’s newspaper [...]
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The Translation of an American Icon: Bat-Manga!
Monday, den 3. November 2008In 1966 the original Batman television series found so much success in the U.S. that it was eventually exported overseas. When the show aired in Japan, the audience was so enamored by the Caped Crusader that the publisher of Shonen King, a popular boys’ magazine at the time, contacted DC Comics to license the [...]
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Inside Nokia Open Studios
Monday, den 3. November 2008In this slideshow presentation, Jan Chipchase introduces the Nokia Open Studios design research method for engaging shantytown communities in the mobile design process. The slides focus on how Nokia is “providing an alternative way for people to articulate their wants and needs - within the context of their community” rather than the direct design output [...]
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PSFK At Future Trends
Monday, den 3. November 2008I will be attending and moderating at Future Trends in Miami next week. If any readers are going, I’d love to meet and say hi. Drop me a line on Facebook.
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Could forums or wikis be so popular if we never had blogs?
Monday, den 3. November 2008Once upon a time we had websites. Webmasters used to write something on a topic in that website. That was primarily the age of one way communication. The visitors had no opportunity to participate.
As we moved on, internet grew up into a platform (we owe a lot to blogs and forums) for you and me to participate. And now we have Wikis - the comprehensive platform.
Though, blogs and forums are primarily two way communication medium, there is a basic difference between the two. To put it simply, a visitor cannot normally start or direct a discussion in a blog (comments does not empower the reader as much as the author of the blog). But in a forum based platform, the reader can be an active agent to start a discussion on any given topic (allowed by the moderator).
So, what are blogs and what are forums?
To me, my blog is my home and the URL is my residential address. I decorate (design and write posts) my blog, the way I want. I enjoy my freedom of speech in my blog. However, the forum is the place where I interact with different people. It is like a coffee bar, where I can start a discussion and let others contribute with full power. We all share the same privilege. Thus can we say that a forum is more powerful than a blog as far as participation or communication is concerned!
And, here comes wiki - a notebook that stores important aspects of a discussion in the form of a comprehensive article. It is like erasing all the unwanted dialogues of a meeting and writing down the gist in a single page.
What do you think?
Could forums or wikis be so popular if we never had blogs?
Please write a comment under this post or start a discussion in the NBB forum.
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Most Popular Articles on PSFK From the Last 7 Days
Monday, den 3. November 2008Here are PSFK’s top five articles from Oct. 27 to Nov. 2, 2008. Results are based on Google Analytics and in order of overall page views.
Pic: Evolution of the Pepsi Logo - Jeff Squires
Uniqlo to Stage Giveaway With a Human Vending Machine - Dave Pinter
Beat this Video Game, and We’ll Lower Your Insurance - Dan [...]
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A National Dialogue on Health Information Technology & Privacy
Monday, den 3. November 2008There’s a national dialogue going on right now on health information technology and privacy. Are you a part of the conversation? Maybe you should be.
If you are in the healthcare business, this conversation is going to be critical to how you do business in the coming years. If your business is not [...]
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Craft Beer on the Rise in Italy
Monday, den 3. November 2008Craft beer is becoming more of a presence in Italy, where traditionally, beer is a second class citizen compared to wine. A new scene of brewers are taking beer making to a new level by using complex mixtures of ingrediants and skillful attention to detail. These upgraded craft beers are becoming more like fine wines, [...]
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