Kerblam! by Christopher

Tuesday, May 29
Star Wars is 30!

Yay for Star Wars. The OT is 30 years old this year. Happy anniversary Star Wars!

To 'celebrate' this, the BBC sicced one of their reporters, Kevin Young - who'd never seen Star Wars before (!!!!!!!!!!!) - on the case, and got him to watch Episode 4 (A New Hope) and report back periodically as he watched it. It makes for some most amusing reading :)

Term's finished - which means my second year of Uni's finished! Yaaaaaay. Now I have to find a summer job and recoup some of my losses before the start of the third year (and my UNPAID (grr) placement). Woop woop. Getting lazy with this blog, I really must update it more. Promise I'll update it as soon as anything interesting happens ;)

Labels: 30, anniversary, kerblam, second year, star wars, uni

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Friday, May 25
Why Odeo will never reach critical mass

As I've podcasted about, this is why one of my most-liked audioblogging web sites, Odeo, will never reach 'critical mass' - its UI design is broken.

I detailed what's wrong with it in a recent podcast (deliberately using Odeo), and you can listen to it here:

powered by ODEO

If you find it as annoying as I do, please let the Odeo developers know! Their feedback form is on their site.

Labels: kerblam, odeo, podcasting, problems, UI

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Thursday, May 17
Neave.TV: Hexstatic - Deadly Media

If you're bored and have a free minute, go take a look at Neave.tv - a very cool site (by David Neave) with some very cool content sourced from various sites.

A great example is the Hexstatic video for Deadly Media - check it out (it just plays in your browser, providing you have Flash). I LOVE this site, I also love his other sites (neave.com and FlashEarth.com, a wonderful mash up of sevreal online mapping sites). Ignore them at your peril! They're proper little design gems.

More updates soon (busy with coursework deadlines at the moment).

Labels: kerblam flash design interactivity web2 great innovation

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Thursday, May 3
The IBM Blade servers web ads

There's something oddly compelling about them... Check out the main ad on their minisite if you want to see what I'm on about.

That said, I also wrote on my Twitter page earlier that Justin.tv is oddly compelling, so maybe I'm overusing that phrase this week. ;)

Labels: kerblam, oddities, web advertising

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