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Nokia hits it out of the park (though that sports analogy doesn’t work so well for this EMEA-based brand campaign).
http://www.get-out-and-play.com/. Simply awesome.

PS: Don’t let your A.D.D. get the best of you. Spend a few seconds with the video, and you’ll get a surprise that’s well worth the wait. Thanks to AgencySpy.com [...]

.. no this is not Guitar Hero, the mobile phone edition.  Part Make magazine hackery, part Robert Moog, this rocks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqNwUqNvGuA

thanks Christine.
(Note: makes you wonder if steve jobs should embrace open source a bit more and get out of his AT&T locked phone sillyness eh?)

… a minor blow to Al Gore and most of us that attended SXSWi, new truths about the internet, google, and a dark and sordid past. No worries for Al, he’s moved on from the internet and is now quite successfully waging a campaign to save the earth. The rest of geeknation, can [...]

For all that attended SXSW, perhaps it’s time to check yourself into a clinic. Or to call your producer friend in LA to get on the next Dr. Drew Celebrity Rehab, The Technorati edition. Not sure? Remember… denial is first stage of addiction and acceptance is the path to recovery. [...]

In our continuing series: “I heart infographics: - xxxoo Andy & Dino. (The SXSW 2008 Edition),” Chroma finds a brilliant recap of the Jane McGonigal Keynote.

…but wait there’s more. Sunni Brown of brightspot consulting has maps of nearly every major SXSW 2008 keynote here: So Sunni, would it be awkward if we asked [...]

I don’t know who scheduled this event for this past weekend. But whomever did must of been high on vanilla wedding cake icing, or’s been watching to much beauty and the geek. I was amused (and confused) to see this over the weekend, smack in the center of the convention center’s lower [...]

Despite all the pent up geek-anger at the whole thing, looks like there’s as many folks entertained than really put off by it all.
Wired adds to the Comic Relief:

Ideacity gives us a post-report and simply thought Sarah was a bit blabby.
Wired/Underwire takes a nap during it all, but gives us another good toon.
Mashable gives [...]

…well this was certainly an entertaining turn of events at the SXSW Saturday Keynote - Mark Zuckerberg. In defense of Sarah Lacy, I think she was a good bookend to Zuckerberg who can often be like listening to nails on a chalkboard during interviews when asked difficult questions. Sarahs huge mistake was baiting [...]

Back in my ideacity days, I’d talked a bit about about “branded intuition“, otherwise known as infographics by Dino who’s equally obsessed with the topic.
Though I don’t know if this does the practice justice, I see infographics as the combination of:
#1) experiental, “pliable” interactive design. in other words (and speaking human), graphic/technology design that [...]