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  • 96.99% reduction in crime.

    How do you get a 96.99% reduction in crime around your home? Move from East London to West Sussex. It’s a shame my car and home insurance didn’t drop by the same amount.

  • For once football isn’t a business metaphor, it’s a real life example.

    I’ve just discovered an excellent piece Nick Emmel rote last year about online customer engagement “A lesson in connecting with your customers” which talks about transparency, interaction, communities and trust. It revolves around the near death of Crystal Palace Football Club last year, and how the new owners are engaging with the fans through online…

  • I love a good blue plaque

    Roy Reed, of ReedDesign has very kindly individually mapped London’s 957-ish blue plaques . I get the impression it’s taken some time but is far more useful than the English Heritage alphabetical search. Have a look at them all at reeddesign.co.uk More at Roy’s blog and with thanks to londonist.com for telling everyone.

  • Knokkers: When billiards and bowling collide

    This is a great idea. Shame the tagline is so lame: “Want to play with knokkers?” Is that the best they could come up with? From dvice.com and www.ohgizmo.com with official info at www.knokkers.com

  • Blackadder meets iPad

    Samuel Johnson “I hope, sir, that you are not using the world’s first dictionary iPad to look up rude words!” Edmund Blackadder “I wouldn’t be so hopeful.  That’s what all the others will be used for.” Thanks  to www.woostercollective.com and http://blog.rocketboom.com

  • The world on your desktop – map wallpaper.

    I like maps, and maps of the world are my favourites. So seeing blaberize.com do a feature on desktop world wallpapers has made my friday. Here’s a pick of some of the best, but make sure you visit http://blaberize.com/2009/10/15-really-cool-world-map-wallpapers/ for the whole bunch.

  • Basics Of Social Media ROI

    Thanks to Carl Haggerty for posting up this presentation by Oliver Blanchard, something which cuts through the social media crap and shows obvious ways to tell if all your social marketing is actually doing anything. And of course what’s key to any good presentation, it has excellent graphics. Olivier Blanchard Basics Of Social Media Roi…

  • Fontulicious

    I like fonts, I’m not quite a typography nut, but I do appreciate the brilliant influence that typography can have on design. So this post is all about typography, looking at three quite different angles. 1 – Toast As well as typography, I love toast, hot taost with melted butter, mmmmm, the breakfast of choice…

  • 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging

    This is the kind of post I wish I could write if I was more literate. It sums up very neatly all the problems which so many companies and organisations have. It’s a mix of venting frustration with reading terrible blogs whilst nudging you away from falling into the traps yourself. Read all about it…

  • Noisy Decent Graphics: My Bright Idea

    I like this idea of wrapping paper and have done something similar before myself, but not with quite the same thought and style as Matt Dent. Easy to make your own if you’ve got a big enough printer, but good to support a designer selling a great idea. Found at Noisy Decent Graphics: My Bright…