Followers of my tweets may have noticed their twittering calm punctuated by the occasional #12linksofChristmas over the past couple of weeks.
These are likeable links that I’ve found enjoyable, enlightening or just plain interesting over the past 12 months.
Humbled by its apparent popularity, I’ve been asked to publish the Twelve Links in their entirety (with apologies for the inclusion of the bit.ly links, but speed is of the essence on Christmas Eve). So here they are; all in one place.
To readers of my blog — because there are some (!) — consider this my way of saying ‘thank you’ for paying attention to my sporadic posts from time to time in 2009. Next year, I plan to be a little bit more frequent in my postings.
Resolutions eh?!
The Twelve Links of Christmas
1: David Gillespie’s ‘Digital Strangelove (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Internet): http://bit.ly/5IkEKx.
2: Seth Godin on standing out: http://bit.ly/5fbEmo
3: Antony Gormley’s One&Other featuring Shambles The Cow: http://bit.ly/6RGdeC . Here’s why I liked it: http://bit.ly/4MpLDt
4: Tomas Nilsson’s brilliant infomatic of the Little Red Riding Hood story: http://bit.ly/6eWYKf
5: Take a Tokyo subway map, add the web’s most influential and, voila!, Information Architect’s (iA) WebTrendMap: http://bit.ly/77LsXG
6: The New York Times’s Skimmer=content over style, with style (if it wasn’t for that pesky BB ad!): http://bit.ly/7C1on4
7: Superego’s absurdist podcast: http://bit.ly/6T2tef . Here’s why: http://bit.ly/7HOHGT
8: 37Signal’s Basecamp — easily the most significant worky discovery for me in 2009: http://bit.ly/8sWLCW
9: Chris Anderson’s ‘Free: The Future of a Radical Price’ now free (of course) at iTunes: http://bit.ly/532bxZ
10. I”ll bet you’ve already seen one of David McCandless’s superb infographics in 2009: http://bit.ly/6HGtG5
11: Portfolio of local politicians contorted in PR-opportunity indignance http://bit.ly/77XDWk
12: Genius Aussie musician Pogo’s remix of a Mary Poppins classic: http://bit.ly/c3CdNk
Oh and here’s the two that nearly made it — Coke Zero’s brilliant facial profiler promo: http://bit.ly/8Lr9lG and the Guardian’s crowd-sourced analysis of UK MPs expenses: http://bit.ly/6AGyho
Happy Christmas!
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