Merry Christmas

The coolest Christmas tree I’ve seen, via apartment therapy, is this one:

Merry Christmas all!

I’ve been tagged

John Grant over at the excellent BrandTarot Blog has tagged me.
Being tagged is the latest blogger meme: Once you are tagged, you need to mention 5 things about yourself that others don’t know. Then you need to tag 5 other people.
So here goes:
1) As much as I try to hide it, I’ve always been a [...]

Second Life Residents Exceed 2 Million

It’s quite a milestone for the virtual world of Second Life to have signed up over 2 million users this week. Especially since they reached the 1 million mark in September. No one would disagree that things are growing pretty quickly.
Now that doesn’t mean that you’ll find 2 million avatars wandering around Second Life at [...]

Shock News :: Ben Rowe’s Blog reaches 100 posts!

Well people, here it is, my 100th Blog post. Is that the distant sound of “Whoop-Di-Do” I hear?
This is what my blog looks like via the cool Websites as graphs – an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet :

Thanks for reading!

Whistle-Stop WiFi Tour of Melbourne

Anyone looking for free wifi in Melbourne? I’ve put together a list of some of the places I’ve found that are worth a visit.

State Library :: 328 Swanston St – Probably your best option for free wifi in the city, the state library (corner of Swanston and Latrobe St) offers endless free wifi without having [...]

2006 Wrap-Up :: State of the Blogosphere

As 2006 comes to a close, Technorati tells us that there are 62.5 million blogs out there. Compare this to the beginning of the year, when there were only 27.2 million. That is one whopping big increase in just 12 months. I’m amazed.
Gartner have predicted that blogging will peak in 2007, which may be true. [...]

‘Look Behind The Label’ :: M&S’s Ethical Marketing Success

You’d be hard-pressed to beat the UK’s Marks & Spencer when it comes to ethical marketing campaigns in 2006.
Earlier this year M&S launched their ‘Look Behing the Label‘ campaign in the store windows of 420 of their stores. The campaign focuses on the ethical ways M&S source and produce their product range. The image below [...]

Friday Links

Greener Living: Stamp duty to be waived for all zero-carbon emission homes

Gordon Brown announced yesterday that all new homes will have zero carbon emissions within a decade.

Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading

Great post over at fimoculous about some great blogs, including indexed and We Make Money Not Art.

Half of YouTube’s Audience Is [...]