If you enjoyed director Chris Milk’s innovative and haunting HTML5 creation for The Arcade Fire and Google Chrome, The Wilderness Downtown, you’ll love The Johnny Cash Project, a global art collaboration to produce a music video for the Man in Black’s last studio recording, Ain’t No Grave.

Users are invited to use a single frame from the video as a template and draw their own portrait of Cash on top. When strung together and played in sequence over the song the portraits create a unique crowd-sourced music video. Read More »

As having a social media policy becomes as ubiquitous as having a marketing strategy, brands are going to start asking whether it’s best to manage these things in house or if it is better to outsource.

Buddy Media: popular on Facebook

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With local government funding cuts threatening the future of many community services, I’ve noticed that several libraries in my area of London are turning to social media, specifically Facebook, to rally support.
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After seeing the interest in the post about “How mobile changes user behaviour”, I decided to share also the user breakdown by device.

As a frame of reference: At Jobsite, the traffic via mobile devices (actual mobiles & the ipad, excludes other on the go computing devices) now stands at 5% of total visits – an increase of 630% in 18 months and double the traffic we receive from Yahoo & Bing combined. Read More »

A report out today called The Connected Kingdom says that the internet in the UK has surpassed larger traditional industries such as utilities, transport and construction and is worth £100bn to the economy.

The report, commissioned by Google and produced by Boston Consulting Group, is ‘an independent analysis of where the UK’s successful internet businesses are and what their future growth might look like’.

Against the current background of public spending cuts and fears of a double dip recession, it certainly makes a welcome change to hear some positive statistics regarding the economy. Read More »

Foursquare has partnered with JESS3 to help design and develop a map that will visualise real-time Foursquare check-ins at polling stations in the US as it prepares for its crucial mid-terms elections next week.

The site is going to be accessing over 108k official polling locations provided by the Voting Information Project, which have been geocoded by the Foursquare team. Read More »

The respected US political blog Politico is to launch a subscription-based news service focused on health care, energy and technology next year.

The launch adds to the burgeoning paid content market and sees the firm that owns Politico again seeking to challenge established media players. Read More »

Apple, which last week broke the $20bn quarterly revenue barrier, and is rumoured to be readying a major acquisition with its $51bn cash pile, could be making a lot more pretty soon as it pushes into China with the open of its online store. Read More »

Google is always telling the publishing world how it cares about journalism and that it is not the enemy (or the frenemy as Sir Martin Sorrell put it). Well whether you believe that or not (Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation clearly don’t) you can believe this.

The web firm has donated $5m to encourage innovation in digital journalism — it isn’t a great deal is it? Read More »

Sony what took you so long? Sony is reported to be preparing to launch a Playstation phone in time for Christmas or there abouts. It comes just a few days after Sony announced the death of the Sony Walkman cassette.

Tech website Engadet reports that the PlayStation Phone will likely run on Android 3.0 along with a custom Sony Marketplace, which will allow users to buy games designed for the new mobile platform. Read More »