Posts Tagged ‘Links’

A Collection. Links for Your Inner History Nerd.

People who know me personally also know my enthusiasm when it comes to bizarre niche history knowledge. History is hardly a hot topic across the web. History (as well as my other favorite topic politics) traditionally has not got a reputation for being extremely digestable…or even entertaining.

This has changed a lot lately. More and more people with a very distinct taste in niche history topics popped up recently and created impressive, inspiring and sometimes just very interesting places for people like me (and potentially you). Most of the people driving the following links are not just very entertaining but extremely knowledgeable in their specific niche.

Even though I follow so many inspiring history nerds I would just like to highlight a couple of sources that I regularly use and that I find absolutely remarkable. Of course this cannot even come close to a comprehensive list. But I am always happy to learn about entertaining, smart historical online sources that I haven’t heard of. Just leave a comment underneath this article (please).

Four great blogs on history

Of course I have to start up any list of my favorite history sources with Retronaut. The blog is a steady stream of quality historical content – sometimes random but always smart and interesting. Its focus definitely lies on the last 200 years, primarily snippets from the lifes of ordinary people as well as celebrities.

Retro Future has a slightly different approach to history. Its founder Matt Novak has launched a platform that exclusively features future visions from the past – a history that never was. Paleo Future is now part of the Smithsonian family of blogs. And Matt has additionally started to feed a very interesting Youtube channel around the same topic.

Letters of Note again follows a completely different route to explain and feature historical events. The site collects and displays some of the most remarkable and – at the same time – least known letters of famous people. It is simply a delight to find out that even Abraham Lincoln had very worldly problems when he recommended his bankrupt step-brother: “You are now in need of some money; and what I propose is, that you shall go to work, “tooth and nail,” for somebody who will give you money for it.” Touché Mister Lincoln.

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Best of Delicious. My favorite Design Pattern Gallery Links.

Did I ever say how much I love delicious and how happy I am that it was saved from Yahoo? The latest moves by the new owners Hurley and Chen point into the right direction: An overhaul for one of the oldest social bookmarking platforms is more than necessary. And the new Stacks feature (=a social bookmarking playlist) is great. It just needs an embedding and commenting function.

So after saving a million links on delicious I would like to share some of my favorite marketing/tech/digital-related ones here. Today I would like to share my Design-Pattern-Stack with whoever is interested in it. I guess most of you know what Design Pattern are: Standard design solutions for standard interaction problems. So feel free to check out my most favorite links to Design Pattern solutions saved as a Stack. And I am happy if you comment which links I have missed.

Links. Good reads for Sunday Night.

It’s been a while since I updated my links section on davaidavai. Twitter, delicious and Facebook distract me too much from sharing links here. So, here is a small list of recommended reads for tonight. Feel free to share links with me in this article’s comment section.

This is the list of what I found exceptional. Follow my ongoing stream of reading recommendations if you liked this.

Links. Stuff I stumbled upon lately.

Friends. Get to know Creativecriminals.com.

friendsEvery once in a while I will introduce you to blogs that I simply like to read. Today’s feature is Creativecriminals.com from Belgium.

Creativecriminals.com was founded in March 2009 by the three Belgian students Rindert, Bert and Sander. The team collects and publishes some of the best ad campaign ideas I have seen in a while and updates on a daily basis. What I really like about the platform is the mixture of campaigns they come up with. From very small ideas with the certain touch of creative genius to big campaigns which stage a brand in the most appropriate way, find them all at Creativecriminals.com.

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Links. Things I read today.

Links. Things I read today.

Davaidavai? What’s that?

Hi, I am Gerald Hensel and I am your host tonight.

Davaidavai is a blog about the stuff which drives my professional life. Digital ideas, social media, advertising in and beyond the 1s and 0s that seem to have taken control of pretty much everything… I work as Strategy Consultant for Blast Radius, Amsterdam. To check out what I do beyond davaidavai, simply follow this link. And don't forget to send me a message in case there is anything left to say.

The thoughts and opinions on this aite are my own, and not that of my employer.

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