Hidden treasure by Andy Day

First form of social:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kula_ring

The story of Mr Anderson’s shears, (and the extraordinary success enjoyed by ‘English Cut’ thereafter)
http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000014.html

Hugh McLeod, the blogging pioneer who has a nice take on social media originating from a tribe in Papua New Guinea. Can’t find original talk on it, but here’s his take on the shears and ‘holy objects’. Sales for English Cut suits soared.
http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/24/toms-shears/

Year of books tv campaign, beautifully scripted, well cast etc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ehYulpCB0

john peel archive

The good old beeb has (as usual) left it to the real fans out there to compile a audio memorial to John Peel.
Why don't they stop propping up just 10% of the talentless musak DJs they employee and put some of our hard earned into a full and proper audio archive of the great man.

John Peel Day is on 13th October this year.

johnpeel every day site is very good and has lots of links to archive material to download and listen to.

Guardian digital archive

Search over 150 years of news from the Guardian.

bfi film sharing

download from the archives.