Just Doinking around…

If, like me, you love design and drawing, iLearn has blogged about an interesting online innovation that’s sure to pique your interest – it’s something fun to do if you’re bored at home (with an internet connection!) for an extended period of time. 
All you need to do is visit the intuitive animation editor at Doink, complete the free [...]

Two simple steps to increase your blog traffic

Mack Collier of The Viral Garden recently wrote a post titled “Better post titles work, and here”s the proof”. He explained how the blog’s highest traffic received in a single day was 1 508 visitors, but on posting a story titled Six reasons why no one likes you online, the blog increased its [...]

Funny faces on PhotoFace

iLearn (one of my favourite online resources!) recently blogged about PhotoFace, an online tool gaining much international interest, which turns ‘face pictures’ into talking 3D characters. The application converts uploaded images into really funny 3D-avatar versions, which can be synchronised with audio. These 3D faces can also be manipulated with fun effects and emotions, and sent on to friends… [...]

Socks – orphaned, abandoned, or just plain lost?

iLearn blogged that today’s Vimrod cartoon ‘highlights how pedestrian everyday issues could be turned into online opportunities’ – this got me thinking… who hasn’t wondered where ‘the other sock’ ends up? (I personally subscribe to the ‘Island of Lost Socks’ idea – click here to read the Island of Lost Socks poem, which explains the single sock’s [...]

New York Times’ Skimmer gives snappy snippets

We were chatting about ‘new ways of receiving the news’ in the office last week, and spoke about how sometimes all you want is an overview or summary (much like Newsclip’s daily in-house News Reviews summaries)… and it seems the New York Times website picked up on these thoughts!
iLearn blogged this week that the New [...]