I know it’s not digital, or branding per se… but what it is, is Patrick Swayze as a centaur.

As part of the daily ‘what’s going on out there’ scan, I checked the top two stories on Digg. I’m not going to describe each of them but just provide the links.

1. http://tinyurl.com/65fgzs

2. http://tinyurl.com/462qc6

The unbridled dissemination of information. Both are highly provocative. Both provide visceral and intellectual responses. But in totally different ways.

link: failblog.org

The webby awards were announced recently, and with almost 70 categories there are plenty of interesting sites that both won awards and were shortlisted. To save you scrolling through a list of about 500 websites, I’d thought I’d post a selection of my favourites on here.

The first is the ‘People’s Voice’ winner in the Associations category – America’s Favourite Architecture. Beautifully designed, and with some stunning high-resolution photography, the site lists America’s favourite 150 pieces of arhitecture. You can sort by name, architect, or ranking – essentially a league table of people’s favourites. By choosing your favourite buildings, you can influence the overall standings. (In case you were wondering, the Empire State building is currently #1).

Awesomely informative rap about good web design practice…

There seems to be a whole series of these including lyrical advice on issues such as successful online marketing and pay per click campaigns. The ‘Poetic Prophet’ has also invented a dance called The Page Rank.

www.youtube.com/user/m0serious

This post describes how  to download videos directly from youTube as 480×360 MP4 files. The quality is visibly better than the .flv files offered on youTube, and it’s pretty straightforward. Nice.

I was automatically taken to the new-look Netvibes this morning following a scheduled service outage. And there are some extra bits and pieces from Coriander but nothing on top of the original launch of Ginger (Activities - who’s doing what, Contacts - who’s reading your stuff).

The only change is that Universes are now referred to as public pages e.g. build a page and share it with others. Thank goodness for the rename.

Shameless-plug-of-my-own-stuff alert.

I wrote another article (last one here) for mad.co.uk and it’s gone live. Titled Why is integrating digital into the agency so awkward? it discusses some of the problems that agencies face when trying to ‘go digital’ and how they might be solved or avoided.

Worth a look for the awful photo if nothing else. Enjoy.