We Tell Stories, winner of the SXSWi elevator pitch contest, and very interesting story-telling site.

iPaint

Gallery of beautiful images painted using the Brushes App on the iPhone

Photos from Zurich

Photos from a sunny day in Zurich, faux cross-processed to deal with the poor quality photos my Ixus took.

On monoculture

Idealists of the long tail and the 2.0 multiverse shouldn’t count out the monoculture—it turns out you can do a hundred NPR shows and have all the Web buzz in the world and it’s nothing compared to the power of one Hollywood movie actor’s passing remark.

Carl Wilson, author of Let's Talk about Love: Journey to the End of Taste

Ryanair and anti-social networking

In a week when they announce they're considering installing pay toilets on their planes an illiterate Ryanair employee attacks a tech geek who highlights a bug in their site. Are Ryanair trying to be the Archie Bunker of the air?