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Free fonts - very cool idea generators

by Lee Hopkins on November 26, 2008 · 1 comment

in clippings, tools

Lovers of fonts (aka me) will love this new free collection. All eighteen of them are worthy of downloading and will generate some great ideas.

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Images to chill

by Lee Hopkins on April 3, 2008 · 2 comments

in miscellaneous

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. You can even subscribe by email! Thanks for visiting!Courtesy of a tweet from the never-sleeping but ever-readable Chris Brogan comes word of an amazing artist, Chris Jordan.
In his exhibition Running the Numbers: an American self-portrait Chris looks at contemporary American culture [...]

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New font: Sniplash from P22

by Lee Hopkins on April 1, 2008 · 0 comments

in miscellaneous

That superb type foundry P22 have just released a fabulous font set - Sniplash.
Originally released as a single font in 2004, this lively and organic font is inspired by the cartoons of the 1960s and 70s. It has been expanded to now include Bold and Light variants.
Sniplash defies serious analysis and offers a [...]

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Social networks: the next phase

by Lee Hopkins on April 1, 2008 · 3 comments

in marketing

Socially useful sites — ‘what I think about something’ — is the next phase of evolution for social networks, who are mostly currently at the ‘who I am as a person’.
Tying in nicely with my report this week for FIR comes an article from the Beeb about the next development in social networks.
Already there [...]

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WordPress vulnerabilities - no one is safe

by Lee Hopkins on March 27, 2008 · 1 comment

in miscellaneous

Guardian angel Jon Hoel from the PR Junction podcast has pointed out that a really horrible security breach is doing the rounds of WordPress blogs.
Says Jon,
Hi Lee,The PR agencies may not have come around yet, but the spammers are certainly giving blogs plenty of attention.
Site hack issue as discussed:  HTML appears in your blog posts [...]

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Better Business Writing - a 5 day course

by Lee Hopkins on March 25, 2008 · 0 comments

in miscellaneous

  Fresh off the press is a five day course that teaches you how to write for business.
You’ve probably always wanted to write better in your workplace, but perhaps there were no training courses around to help you.
Well, now there is.
You don’t have to fly me over to your city to present this five [...]

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It’s out now, folks!
[updated: links now work -- oops!] Trevor Cook and I have slaved away in an entirely slavish fashion to produce the all-new, all-singing Third Edition of our runaway best seller. (pssst… it’s free) 
In this year’s Edition every chapter [...]

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A fascinating article found its way to me courtesy of a link from a new-found colleague of mine, Wendy Rosen.
The NYT reports on a phenomenon that is sweeping the globe — the mobile-based social network.
I thought it was cool to be able to Twitter via my mobile, but that is kiddy stuff compared to [...]

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