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Please Pardon the Mess as We Dust This Off
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 | Tom Carmony
Welcome back (or welcome, if this is your first time here) to Anything+Everything, the Bainbridge Studios blog. This blog has seen it’s share of fits and starts over the past two years and today’s post is the beginning of a significant revamping I’m undertaking to get the blog relaunched, along with an expanded, completely redesigned Bainbridge Studios company site (the current single page format will make way for a new website coming in January).
In the meantime, the return of A+E is one of the first steps in a larger marketing plan for 2009. As new posts go up here over the next few weeks, you may well see noticeable differences in the site’s design. Considering it the Internet equivalent of living in your house during a renovation.
That said, I’m really excited about where this blog (and the site as a whole) is headed in the coming year. I want A+E to provide a unique perspective on the small business experience, alongside design happenings, updates on our latest work, and more. I hope you’ll find what we’ll be offering of value.
Cheers,
Tom Carmony
Principal/Lead Designer
You’ve Got Something Stuck Between Your Teeth…
Friday, June 27th, 2008 | Tom Carmony
Well, this is certainly an attention-getter. Saatchi & Saatchi New York created this unique guerilla marketing piece for Glide dental floss in New York City. The exact metaphor isn’t clear, but it must be playing off the notion of having something (a piece of ham, in this case?) stuck in your teeth.
Image courtesy Commercial Archive
(via Coudal)
Exceptional Student Design
Friday, June 27th, 2008 | Tom Carmony
Penguin has posted its list of 2008 Design Award winners (for book cover design) and there’s some amazing work to be seen. My personal favorite is Jez Burrows‘ On The Road cover concept (pictured at right), but I think the typewriter seatbelt buckle is a bit of a clichete. Nonetheless, it’s great work.
Check out the full set of winners here.
(via Coudal)
Links of the Week: May 30th
Friday, May 30th, 2008 | Tom Carmony
Good Products Don’t Make Up for Bad Service … But They Help
Skinnycorp’s Jeffrey Kalmikoff discusses ways to truly make amends with a disappointed customer by going the extra mile.
Life, Death and Twitter on the African Savannah
Masai tribesman Joseph Kimojino is using Twitter as one way of raising awareness for the Mara Triangle wildlife park.
Tool Kit
Paul B. Brown’s New York Times small business column.
Facebook in Real Life
A humorous look at how social networking behavior might play out in the real world.
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Revision3 Servers Brought Down By MediaDefender DoS Attack
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 | Tom Carmony
This is a bit outside our typical topical content here on A+E, but I wanted to highlight it anyway, as it’s a disturbing example of an attack on a legit new media company.
Over the recent Memorial Day weekend, Revision3, a company specializing in producing ad-supported video podcasts (including the immensely popular Diggnation, of which we are big fans), fell victim to a denial of service (DoS) attack that knocked their website, RSS feeds, email and much of their content distribution offline for most of the weekend. These type of malicious attacks are not uncommon, particularly against well-known companies.
What makes the story particularly disturbing is that, according to Revision3′s CEO Jim Louderback, the DoS attack was launched by MediaDefender, an anti-piracy group employed in the past by the RIAA, MPAA and other old media companies. The DoS attack was apparently targeted at Rev3′s BitTorrent servers (BitTorrent is a popular peer-to-peer content distribution protocol, often utilized to disseminate copyrighted material such as music, movies, etc.). Revision3, however, only distributed their own content over the BT protocol, so there was no clear reason why MediaDefender would choose to target them (BTW, such vigilante DoS attacks are illegal).
The story gets murkier as Rev3 has investigated and apparently the FBI is looking into the matter as well. Clearly, Revision3 has done nothing but distribute their own content over a perfectly legitimate content distribution network, so they should in no way have to fear being targeted by such old-media industry “watchdogs”. MediaDefender has clearly overstepped their bounds, targeting a legit small business venture, and one can only hope that they pay a price for that. FBI involvement in the matter is certainly a good first step.
Get the full story direct from Revision3′s CEO Jim Louderback here.