Finalists have been announced in the Artistic tribute to Bjork contest being hosted by the Lost At E Minor crew. I think the Icelandic pop princess would be quite impressed with the submissions created in her honour :)

A Designer's Guide to Surviving Design Competitions Carl Alviani: "If contests are so bad for the profession, why do we keep entering them?" They require enormous effort, the chances of winning are slight, and even the grand prize doesn't usually compensate for the time invested. Worse than all of this, participants stand to lose rights to their own work... Australian INfront forum members have also been discussing design competitions recently, as ... Read full entry

Network Narcotics: "Please, no more friend requests." Mike Walsh analyses the success of Facebook, and guess what, it's all to do with those insidious time wasting applications, or apps, that our Facebook friends are always prompting us to download and play with. Facebook isn't called the $5 billion waste of time for nothing! 12 Examples of Viral Content, And What We Can Learn From Them: speaking of viral ... Read full entry

Captain's log stardate 30 July 2007... ok that's not a real stardate... date, but who cares! Captain of the USS Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard, has taken to blogging since Star Trek's "The Next Generation" was put into syndication, and I think I'm beginning to like the blog better than the TV show! Hilarious, I mean fascinating, Captain... The Prize Blog: I didn't realise just how many contests, especially blog contests, ... Read full entry

I Thought, therefore I Blog is the webspace of Singapore based blogger Chee Wee Ng, who is probably better known as BetShopBoy. His about page tells us he is fan of English football. I wonder if he favours a particular team? I usually put a dollar on Chelsea (can anyone say Frank Lampard?) and Fulham, (even when they play each other!) since I once lived in the suburb (er, ... Read full entry