Stuff I saw.
I’ve recently started ‘surfing’ again - trying (and probably failing) to keep up with everything thats going on in my sector, interesting ‘n.0’ sites, and just stuff which is inspiring and relevant to my day to day. I keep most of it in delicious, but thought i’d share some of the key links here.
DoMyStuff.com is a ebay for lazy people. kinda. if you have something to do, post the chore on domystuff.com, and people in your area can bid to do it. For instance, scan 200 photos and burn them on to a DVD, tidy your apartment, even clean out your ears. Perhaps, as heard whilst watching Syriana last night “Send a fool to do a fool’s errand”, but hey, who’s the fool when you’re paying them dollar?
Next up, Channel4Radio.com - an interesting technology progression for C4 to take, usually people move from radio to telly, not vice versa - but they certainly have the content to make the less ‘play a bunch of tunes’ type programming work. Its effectively a large bunch of podcasts, extended content of some of their programming - but there’s already a good amount of fresh new content especially for 4radio. Its a good mix of music, documentary, current affairs and hollyoaks. Don’t tell anyone at work though, your sysadmin will probably bring the burned-out router down on the back of your head after your entire office start swamping the connection with their streams. Personally, its just a good excuse to listen to the lovely Alexa Chung. Mmm.
Finally, something workywise - ConceptShare - for online sharing and discussion of creative (pdf, psd, jpg etc), with annotation, commenting etc. We already use something similar to this at work - we rolled our own (we’ve been using something basic for y[uh]ears, and are just adding basic annotation and notes to it using HTML and Javascripty loveliness, but this looks like a very well rounded tool for getting up to speed very quickly if you don’t have time/in-house development resource (or don’t want to re-invent a perfectly nice wheel). (via webponce rants)
