why the fuck should I put up with this?

Just for like a nano moment I thought twitter was cool.
Fuck no.

apple does it again

Banners are mostly a nuisance.
Stupid animation of some silhouette dancing
trying to draw a click for some
insurance company.
In general banners tend to be
worse on average than print ads or TV ads.
why is that?
Aren't the people who work in new media young,
hip and creative?
I'm sure they guys at Chiat/Day TBWA are young and hip.
At least some of them.
Lee Clow may not be young, but in my view he's
the hippest and most creative of the bunch.
When he started nobody had a personal computer.
God knows if TV was invented.
But under his leadership some of the best online
advertising is created.
I think it's because they look for how to use media.
How to come up with a compelling idea no matter medium.
So when interactive specialist create crappy, badly designed
nonsense, C/D TBWA offers up the latest and coolest
in technology as well as ideas.
As usual with Apple, I wish I had done it.
it runs on CNN etc. right now, by the way.

navigaya?

Is this the future?
It's kind of cool looking.
It's prettier than google search for sure.
There something interesting about
building your own configuration.
But this black and white streaming
stuff in the background is actually just
more annoying than enticing after a while.
www.navigaya.com

For how long can you do this?

It's Swedish and it says: We're building a new home-page.
Forsman & Bodenfors is a thoroughly modern agency with a solid creative reputation.
They were relatively slow to join the www train.
When most every agency had a crappy home-page just because it seemed to be thing to have, they still had none.
When they finally entered the game it was with an entertaining little gem.
What made it worthwhile however was the great work they do for most of their clients.
They quickly became one of the foremost interactive shops by entering not just to look hip, but because they felt it was about time to do it and do it well.
Because they are creatively driven. True creative people and their agencies find ways to
do great work no matter which medium.
Technology?
Well, that can be learned, and it can be bought.
Ideas?
Much harder to come by.
There's no university handing out grades in the subject of ideas.
"So, hey, you are a doctor in what? Ideas? Isn't that a bit esoteric?"
Well, without ideas nothing will evolve. Which wasn't exactly what I meant to write about when I started writing this entry. (It's worth exploring much further in separate blogs.)
But it's related.
I wonder: how long will this be their home-page. It's been under construction for quite a while now. Like a year. Maybe more.
Isn't it better to just leave the old one up, update it now and then, rather than teasing with a promise that is now way overdue?
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