the next blogosphere over

I've been conscious of late that I'm starting to bore myself with all this talk about brands and marketing and blah blah blah. So God knows what it's doing to you. I'm just not sure there's that much left to say. Doesn't everyone now know what to do? We just have to do it.

So I've been consciously trying to extend out a little into the next streets along on the blogosphere, places that are related enough that I understand what's going on but not so likely to break into reflexive snorts at the mention of One World Equity.

Some of the interesting places I've found in my wandering/wondering are:

         

The Creative Review blog is lovely. Magazines seem to find it hard to know what to do with a blog but CR is doing it really well. This little piece on the aesthetics of myspace is typically smart. (And I stole the idea of using pimpmyspace off them.)

I read The New Yorker a lot (which I realise makes me look rather pretentious). And I'm always excited when an Alex Ross piece crops up. I very rarely understand what he's talking about, I've almost never heard the music he discusses but his intelligence and enthusiasm is energising and infectious. His blog is the same.

It's always a good idea to keep an idea on what Kevin Kelly is keeping an eye on. Cool Tools has been a favourite for a while, there are always things you want but don't need. But in a solid, practical, men and sheds kind of way. But Street Use is genius. See the world through the eyes of technological improvisers.

I just love the way everything on slowmotionlandscape looks. Especially the moleskine notebooks.

Mind Hacks is the blog of the book; "Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain." There's always something to puzzle or intrigue you. Or failing that something you can mention to someone to look clever.

Comments

[hidden persuader]

I've been buying Creative Review recently and I must say it's a really clever and insightful magazine. I love the way they combine design with advertising with urban culture with ... Anyway one of their last articles "Advertising: The New Landscape" sumarised quite well the changing habits of media consumption. PS: I'm not a paid buzz agent; This is genuine word-of-mouse :)