a big but

I think digital people need to start thinking about the 'but' a bit more. For example I've seen this fact brought up in quite a few presentations lately 65,000 videos are being added per day to youtube but not so much of this one just 0.5% of youtube clips have more than 1,000 views.

How about this one: google is handling 1200 Million searches per day on average worldwide. A big audience granted, but no one really mentions how many subjects those searches are on when they pull this stat up as it puts things into perspective a little more. It's not like you can get to those 1200 million all at once like a TV channel.

I think we need a few more but's to keep us from over interpreting what is possible at the minute.

v&a village fete again

I like the V&A village fete a lot. Last year I went and was impressed by this. This year I went and was impressed by Vicky and George's fetebook.

One of those 'wish I'd thought of that' moments. Especially as I'm in the fete game myself. Buy tickets.

micro gardening

Overplanting your vegtable patch can cause an alarmingly under developed yield. Cute, but alarmingly under developed.

story of story

I like the concept of story telling. I've said that before. And before.

So I was quite interested to go along to a chat about story telling, and how it can give you a competitive advantage as a brand, by the people at Make Believe on Thursday. And have a back stage nose around the ENO. Very interesting stuff. Quite hard to some up so here's the notes I made instead.

Plus some pictures of Make Believe's Book, very nicely put together by designtypography.

dolphin clouds

I saw these dolphins flying over Battersea Power Station on Sunday. Animals.

water, water

Some interesting stuff to do with h2O...

Tap. Think globally, drink locally.

Another Bloody Water. Found by Dan at Dieline.

A London tap water project.

And a brass tap in howies shop on Carnaby Street.

It's everywhere.

cha cha moon

I've been frequenting Alan Yau's new place Cha Cha Moon quite a bit lately. What I like about Cha Cha Moon, other than the food, is that they are doing a good bit of falling forward fast at the minute.

For example the first few times I went they were only filling the resturant to half of it's capacity until they got the kitchen processes up to speed and service at a level they are happy with. All the dishes on the menu are priced at £3.50 each at present as well for the same reasoning (you might have a bit of delay waiting for stuff but at least they're being transparent about it and mitigating your loss with a cheap meal). They've even managed to get a fire under their belt in their fall forward fast phase.

It's probably best to get these lessons learnt and out of the way as quickly as possible though I imagine, and then move onto the business of making money.

garden and shed update

I was talking gardens and gardening with Dan at lunch today so thought I'd do a quick back garden update.

I've just mowed the lawn. There's something very satisfying about mowing your lawn on a summer evening after work. Especially in bright yellow wellington boots.

My howies trees have really started to get into that growing thing now.

As has the cherry blossom. Although there was no blossom this year. Or cherries for that matter.

The bluetits have moved out. But left things nice and tidy for next year.

The shed is now fully alarmed up.

Thanks to a solon shed alarm kindly donated by Ceri. I've found that 130+ decibels is actually really loud, so I've left the battery out of it.

Not that there's anything worth half inching.

And I'm begining to regret over seeding what is a relatively small vegatable patch.