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Oh So Easy

Thinking more on the topic of process or task, it seems only right that these these ideas extend into content creation too. After all it's plain to see how little computing knowledge one needs these days to build a blog, a website or an app. Below is a personal site I created in literally 5 minutes via Flavors.me. I think Flavors.me is the easiest digital service I've ever used. It was previously Tumblr  but this is much easier. Impressive.
   
Here is a video explaining Flavors.me. No I'm not on the payrol, I'm just impressed.

Flavors.me from Jack Zerby on Vimeo.

And here is another newish service that lets you create iphone apps without throwing any code around. It's pretty easy.

But really, as I've been telling anyone that would listen why wouldn't you just build an HTML 5 site, you know... like Google do. Save yourself a load of grief and get it working on Android and Apple, you know... the bigger win.

 

Post Pong Ping

A big thanks to everyone who helped with the Ping Pong event at the weekend. Spending 22 hours at the Barbican trying to manage kids playing table tennis took it's toll, but we had 1500 through the doors playing table tennis so I think we did good. Phew.

I would have pictures, but you're not allowed to can't take pictures of kids these days... nice huh!

And for someone who is 'trying to make a difference' I think we did good.

Week Note 4

Berlin and London this week

Nice to be back in Berlin. Managed to get some more time Kreuzberg, which was good.

Working with a large German company opened up some intriguing possibilities to play with complicated data, hard but intriguing. I pointed out the potential value and the very significant ingenuity that would be required. Well I opened my mouth, and now it's my problem, sorry, challenge. This one is going to take some considerable time sitting in coffee shops staring out of windows to get ideas.

That chewed up most of my week really, that and some really fun public service brainstorming with the German team.

Also had some really intriguing thoughts around the differences between play and practice which I shall probably write more rubbish about later on...

I think maybe my highlight was my Chubby Checker psyche LP showing up, which is as crazy as expected.

This week begins the marathon US trip

Balls & Bats

 

Oh God, oh God, it's all happening. Tomorrow at the Barbican there will be a lot of kids and film crews. I will be drinking heavily and wearing this t shirt. If it all goes wrong it's fair say it will all be (partly) my fault. If this happens I will be leaning on a table shrugging using the famous Papa New Guinean phrase: 'problem-no-belong-to-me, problem-belong-to-you'.

Swing by and knock some balls about...

Still Rather Nice

The regular genius of the It's Nice That returns shortly to our grubby paws, to fawn over with glee and curiosity. The third edition of their journal is available for pre-order on the site and looks as good as ever, or dare I say it EVEN BETTER!

Shown here is the free Parra print you get with the issue (click for larger version)!

Aside from that little gem there are interviews and content from some pretty big hitters such as: Maisie Broadhead, Tom Dixon, Tom Gauld, Milton Glaser, Keith Schofield, Dan Tobin Smith and Paul Smith.

If that's not enough there's also content from: Daniel Eatock, Jochen Gerner, Charley Harper, Lucy and Bart, Susanne Ludwig, Aakash Nihalani, SpY, John Paul Thurlow and Geoff McFetridge (pictured).

 

Oh and there's some words too from: Keetra Dean Dixon, Ken Garland, Dan Germain and Johan Löfgren.

I don't know many media producers that have such an active digital presence and that still manage to produce print media that can sit alongside the digital product so neatly. Hat Tipped.