A Collection. Links for Your Inner History Nerd.

Mai 22nd, 2012 • Links, We like
Tags: Blogging, Creativity, Facebook, history, Links, pinterest, Twitter, World

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 The blog is a steady stream of quality historical content – sometimes random but always smart and interesting.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.

Oktober 5th, 2011 • Links
Tags: Delicious Stacks, Design, Design Patterns, 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.

März 28th, 2010 • Links
Tags: Links

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.

• Scott Rosenberg about the similarities between the media reception of the iPad and the 1990′s CD-ROM goldrush
• KitKat Jesus. A wonderful, insane little campaign…for FMCG. Check it out here.
• Justin McMurray with his Manifesto for a new agile strategy. I don’t like the word Manifesto but the text is good.
• Robin Grant talks about the Nuances of European Social Media. A great overview to overcome media stereotypes.

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.

November 22nd, 2009 • Links
Tags: Links

• Web Strategy by Jeremiah: Social Technology Impacts Every Customer Touchpoint
• Mashable: Youtube lets everyone create their own iReport
• Shopp: An ecommerce plugin for WordPress
• The Twitter times: Aggregate your follower’s target links in one place

Friends. Get to know Creativecriminals.com.

Oktober 27th, 2009 • Friends
Tags: Advertising, Blogs, Campaign, Cool, Friends, Funny, Ideas, Links

Every 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.

Oktober 6th, 2009 • Allgemein
Tags: Links

• MisEntropy: Planner Top 20 Blogs, October 2009
• Mashable: Photo Sketch + Image Recognition
• Nielsen: The Great new Gateway for Content Discovery
• ClickNews: 5 Types of Blog Content to attract Readers

Links. Things I read today.

September 22nd, 2009 • Links
Tags: Links

• Cracked.com: 13 animals lifted directly from your nightmares
• Socialwrite: The attention question in Social Business
• Slideshare: Your Social Media Strategy won’t save you
• Digitale Schweinshaxe: Ars Electronica Review
• Brainwash: AOL Running Man (in German)