Emerge

Emerge is the latest addition to the Influx Insights blogging stable. The aim of Emerge, according to Ed Cotton, is to cover all things relating to emerging culture, focusing on the people and places that reflect and represent it. Emerge focuses on film, art, music, fashion, design, places & spaces and also has interviews with leading lights across these sectors.

Apple

I feel obliged to blog this. Apple have announced a underwhelming variety of new/modified products. * The iTV - great product, but Apple announcing it before it was ready???!* New and very tiny iPod shuffle* Updated 5G iPod - brighter screen or something* New colours on the NanoWhat's going on with Apple, where's the innovation gone? I can't remember the last genuinely new and interesting

The Varifier Approach

If anyone has read James Surowiecki's book, the Wisdom of Crowds, they will be familiar with the story of the US submarine, Scorpion, that disappeared on its way back to land. Despite the Navy holding various bits of data about the sub, such as its location the last time it had made radio contact they had to find it in a possible circular area which had a 20 mile diameter and thousands of feet

Wages of Wins

This website is brilliant. Wages of Wins is a book published in the USA that analyses atheletes indiviual performances in team sports and works out the correlation between performance (i.e. no of wins produced) vs their salary. I'm not really sure how to do the site and the concept justice in this post but I thought it was well worth highlighting how well they have taken the statistics of sport

My John Grant notes

Here's my summary of Paul's John Grant podcast. My apologies for the messyness of the notes. John and Paul are both very smart.John's second book after image was all about knowledge brands e.g. Google, Wikipedia & ebay rather than image brands such as Levi's and Coca-Cola. This helps put it into context looking back.It is now a quest for knowledge not information. Education is an important role

Lebowski Blogs

The infamous Lebowski of W+K London has, after months of protestation, started his own blog. Worth checking out, Lebowski will be coming up with a new idea everyday. Looking forward to it.

BA and Google Earth

I've just seen the latest BA tv ads and, just like ITN news, they use Google Earth. The ad takes viewers on a tour of the world using the search giant's software, highlighting destinations and prices as it goes. It's a great example of how the web is influencing TV and the power of the Google Earth tool.