Think & Play
Thoughtplay is the creative team behind various popular websites and other projects. At this blog we give away bright ideas regularly, and comment on interesting trends both online and off. The thought channel is for more business-related trends, play looks at entertainment and leisure, and thoughtplay introduces our own creative ideas, as well as news about our projects.
In a mine, a few diamonds shine | 240707
It's not very well presented, and surely risks a visit from Google's trademark lawyers, but GoogleReport does offer something intriguing: a shorter, deeper set of search results. Basically it appears to mine the best results from Google, plus content at Wikipedia, when you enter a search term. Interesting idea that could benefit from improvement.
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A picture's worth a thousand free reproductions | 110707
Schmap's creators have had a smart idea. We came across them through an email requesting use of an image we'd put up at Flickr, in this case of a place in Edinburgh - Schmap publishes travel guides and is hunting down images people have posted publicly to use in them. They don't pay, but promise acknowledgement and possible exposure. They're the ones who gain, though: free content, already tagged and labelled.
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Not getting things done | 090707
There's a huge wave of 'productivity' sites on the web, notably Lifehacker, Merlin Mann's 43 Folders and David Allen's Getting Things Done movement. But we rather prefer the approach of structured procrastination advocated by philosophy professor John Perry: in essence, procrastinators are often incredibly productive while putting off what they're actually supposed to be doing. In this vein, there's an early (1949) essay by Robert Benchley, and some interesting alternative productivity roundups at blog.pmarca.com, plus Richard Oliver's purposive drift project.
We only wrote this entry, of course, because there was something more important to get done.
Get your spoilers earlier | 050707
We were intrigued to discover Minisodes: old TV shows condensed down from half an hour or an hour to no more than six minutes. Of course, many YouTubers are doing this for themselves already, and often with rather less stale source material. But could it be a glimpse of the mobile future of TV?
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