Archives for category: The World Wide Web

At the end of the year – amongst the retrospective lists that catalogue the best movies, media moments, albums, and whatever – is the who’s who of what words made it into the dictionary.  But little thought of are the words that are taken out.  The makers of the Oxford English Dictionary have created a fantastic website Save The Words which feature words that are in peril (apparently microreader and 10-cent store on on their way out) and encourages people to sign up by pledging to use them in conversation in order to save them.  It’s very well done – simple, clean, beautiful, fun, with great navigation.

Best thing I’ve seen all week. Maybe the last two weeks.

Back in 2007, web comic XKCD created a geographic map based on online social activity. (Notice the vast territory of MySpace and no Twitter.)

Over the summer, marketing firm Flowtown updated the map based the sizes of various online social communities:

Now the originators, XKCD, have updated the original based on activity, rather than membership numbers:

Great work.

via Mashable

Love it.  Should have been a FB wild posting campaign.  The Galileo post is my favorite.

via Cool Material

I like this collaborative idea between the Guggenheim and YouTube. The Guggenheim believes that digital one of the most important, influential, and accessible mediums of art and they’ve teamed up with YouTube to invite anyone and everyone to submit a video to their…well it’s really an open audition of your artwork. Submit your video to youtube.com/play and a jury of experts will select a winner to be featured at the Guggenheim.

I LOVE it. Getting to the story in technology.

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3floz.com is a new site that carries only products that are in the TSA-f-you-friendly size of 3 oz. or less.

Seriously.  Where have you been?

via Daily Candy

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