I know I meander through many different themes. I’ve posted on topics of informal learning, personal branding, photography, writing, creative therapy, communication, design, working part time, motherhood, non profits, social media and virtual worlds. Some of the words here dip into social media marketing, some fall into the space of enterprise 2.0 …and a lot of it just falls into a bucket of bright and shiny objects to inspire. For a personal blog – like this one – does it matter?

So what’s the common theme? I hope that it’s “wondering about the wonderful webby things”. This is my interactive notepad where I like to muse on creativity, innovation, people and technology. I’d love for it to be a place where you share your insights, observations, and wonderment too. I love it when you comment!

I also like to share beautiful images with you – like this one uploaded on Flickr by RemediateThis.

Why? Because I’d like to think that we can all wonder and be inspired – at work and at home – using technology and design to connect, to dream and to make a difference.

What do you think this blog is about? Does it matter that wonderwebby is not “just about” one of the topics I mentioned?

My Animation Masters Project Report 2003:

My Age of Conversation Manifesto 2008:

What a great way to create a quick visual concept for a short or long document (or CV, or ad campaign, or book or…)

Within 24 hours people from all over the globe, from different parts of the business contributed their bright and shiny ideas, which helped my colleague move his project forward. His team now has so many things to consider adding to the design, that he’s almost not sure where to begin!

Social networks rock. I do enjoy being part of a solution and seeing ideas come together, don’t you?

bright and shiny ideas in a social network
image courtesy of Boston Bill

Just discovered this Semantic Broadcasting experiment by David Bausola aka Zero Influencer (who is another author for the Age of Conversation sequel). It’s based on the song “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley, created as a visual mash-up including associated lyrics, a Randy George cover, RSS, Flickr images and Flitter (read more…)

Oh…and for a moment, imagine interacting with information like this in a holographic,  3D virtual space.

Another interesting thing – I discovered David’s blog by being involved with this collaborative book, following a link to his blog, posting a comment, David then friended me on Twitter, I saw a tweet of his tonight about Friendfeed experiments and somehow it all played out that I found the visualisation above!

Vertigo title sequence

Walk on the Wild Side title sequence

Casino title sequence

His obituary in the New York times celebrated him as “the minimalist auteur who put a jagged arm in motion in 1955 and created an entire film genre…and elevated it into an art.”

Find your talent. Be creative. Try something new. Keep it simple. Give it context. And put your own stamp on it.

Thank you, Saul Bass.

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I’ve used a visual diary for around 15 years, on and off. This year really sees me needing one to take everywhere, again.

Lovely blank white pages ready for my fineliner pen. A few random words and scribbles already. No “to-do lists”. Just ideas. I’m really liking this pen to paper thing again {grins}

Reminds me of a question asked in 1996 at a multimedia art demonstration

viewer “wow great effect – what did you do that with?”

demonstrator “pen and paper”

viewer “cool, who makes that program?”

{grins again}

Look at some lovely examples of pen to paper like the one below at Icastic