Found: Lost Pictures of New York Blizzard / User generated content really is the new media.
I think this is remarkable and celebrates the new self publishing mass media reality where the media has meaning again.
(found via Maria Popova)
Alex Bogusky's blog: The first Cannes Lion for not advertising at all
"... So my hope for the 2011 Cannes Crystal award is some brilliant agency works with their client to pull all the advertising to children and takes home the Cannes Crystal Grand Prix Lion in the inaugural year. And that would be the end of that. Because as soon as you can win an award for it, we ad folk are all over that shit. ..."
nice one...
Buy shares in the Shell ad from Amnesty UK: £10 = 1cm2
"...When shareholders meet for Shell’s AGM on 18 May, you can bet there will be a lot of talk about their $9.8 billion profits. Less talked about will be the human cost of their activities in the Niger Delta – such as the 23 million people drinking poisoned water.
So let’s get the message across. We want to buy a full page advert in a national newspaper to tell shareholders the shameful truth about Shell. ..."
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Lend Your Facebook To Africa, Tell An Untold Story - PSFK - Great idea.
"...Recently, BBH London teamed up with AMREF (the African Medical Research Foundation) to use others’ social media networks as a tool for storytelling—introducing a new methodology to the idea of identity politics and untold global insight. ..."
read all about it at http://www.psfk.com/2010/05/lend-your-facebook-to-africa-tell-an-untold-story...
I'll give it a try.
via @VizeumCph - thanks for sharing!
The zero rupee note: a statement against bribery. Awesome idea.
The zero currency note in a country's currency is a tool to help to achive the goal of zero corruption. The note is a way for any human being to say NO to corruption without the fear of facing an encounter with persons in authority.
Next time someone asks you for a bribe, just take your country's zero currency note and hand it to them. This will let the other person know that you refuse to give or take any money in order to perform services required by law or to give or take money to do something illegal.
read all about it here: http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services
and here http://zerocurrency.org/
Thanks Max Niederhofer for pointing me to it!
Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt in the Stanford Social Innovation Review
read the article here: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/design_thinking_for_social_innovation/
