Archive for the ‘Books & Music’ Category
Jul 17

Bonobo – Dial M for Monkey

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It’s all about melody. And on Dial M for Monkey, Bonobo, the monkey king himself, is back with nine perfectly formed melodies on a perfectly formed album. Not an overblown or conceptualised one – just simple, plain and truely genious. more »

Mar 13

Andrew Chak – Submit Now

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Submit Now teaches what it means to go beyond usability, graphical design and marketing and to make your web site as perusasive as possible. It focuses on helping users to transact on the web an enlights them and their different needs from a new perspective. more »

Websites are buildings. An like all buildings they need an appealing architecture. Starting with organizing the content, designing the site interaction and ending with creating an interface that is easy to understand, the Information Architecture (IA) of a website becomes more and more important. more »

Dec 25

Haste The Day – When Everything Falls

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Since their debut album “Burning Bridges” Haste The Day are a constant in the Emo and Metalcore movement. With a fine mixture of being not to heavy and not to soft, the guys from Indianpolis perform what they call “rock and roll with break downs”. more »

Oct 31

The Herbaliser – Take London

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Ninja Tune’s most prominent hip hop collective with their seventh release. And it’s by far their best album yet. Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba’s innovative mixture of soul, jazz, funk and hip hop influences creates a sound that is a class of it’s own. Over the last decade, the duo has established themselves as a reliable constant in the UKs electronic and hip hop scene. more »

Oct 19

Can computers and computer based technologies be used to perusade and influence the behavior of humans? That is the question B.J. Fogg – an experimental psychologist at the Stanford University – examines in his book. He coins the word of Captology and defines it as “any interactive computing system designed to change people’s attitudes or behaviors”. It derives from a mixture of computer technology (like virtual reality systems, video games, websites, software) and psychological topics dealing with motivation, behavior and the attitudes of humans. more »

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