Ben Cooper

Group Innovation Director M&C Saatchi Sydney. Co-Creator O Six Hundred Kayak. Proud father. Loving husband. British.

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Twitter helping to find ‘indie’ the cat – be vigilant!

Published December 19, 2008

Woke this morning to discover I’m being followed by ‘Lost in Bondi’, thought it might be a backpacker, but no its the beautiful looking ‘indie’ the cat – who is sadly lost. Tweet, blog,

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Bond shenanigans in Sydney

Published November 15, 2008

Daniel Craig & entourage hit Sydney for the premiere of Quantum of Solace. Frenzied photo madness. Looking forward to the next installment. Blogging from the red carpet (well, just to the side!). Here’s a few

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McCain vs. Obama – undisputed presidential championship

Published November 5, 2008

Feels like forever that we’ve been getting to know Obama, on flickr, twitter, facebook, youtube, blogs, tv, and the iPhone etc etc. Isn’t he running America already? Last September I was in Washington Square,

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Download this song (we need 20,000 to make it a record)

Published October 24, 2008

The new Kid Confucius single “Darling, I Need Ya” has been iTunes single of the week this week. Friends and fans of the band are all doing their best to hit the 20,000 downloads

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Radiohead Nude remix results

Published September 26, 2008

Unique visitors: 6,193,776 Page Views: 29,090,134 Hits: 58,340,512 Bandwidth: 10.666 Terabytes Number of mixes: 2,252 Number of votes: 461,090 Number of track listens: 1,745,304 Fantastic example of user-made content and the impact it has. Shared via the w.a.s.t.e mail-list on the

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oneConnect is following me

Published September 24, 2008

I’ve been keeping my eye out for the Yahoo! oneConnect app for the iPhone (its not available in AU yet). The app uses your social connections as an address book and universal messenger –

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If tomorrow never comes

Published September 3, 2008

Walking to my car last night I discovered this note on the ground, and took a photo… A fragment of a story that we can only wonder about. What do you think happened?

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Gameboy Rock: reformat your instrument

Published September 3, 2008

BLIP FESTIVAL: REFORMAT THE PLANET trailer from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo. Loving this. Check the kid going off in the opening scenes. Plus, if you like this you’ll probably enjoy my previous post on

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Illuminate your dark side

Published June 27, 2008

Questionable title I know (perhaps you can suggest something better?). But I had to intro this great pic/ad with something. I wonder if Philips are the light bulb choice for Star Wars fans. Found on

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Max Knight Walking Bike

Published May 5, 2008

The bike actually works, visit Max Knight design to see it in

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Addictive TV remix Iron Man

Published May 5, 2008

Addictive TV give the Iron Man movie their particular style of remix mashup bootleg that they’re famous for. I know that New Line Cinema got them to mixup Shoot Em Up and Snakes On

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The truth about FaceBook

Published May 1, 2008

Hilarious real-world sketch on the realities of connecting to people you weren’t really friends with in the first place. I totally relate to this. Hardly using FaceBook anymore, in fact, it outright annoys me

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Lego men iPhone SIM swap

Published April 24, 2008

iPhone unpacking Originally uploaded by ntr23. It wasn’t me guvnor.. it was the Lego men! Comedy photoset of Lego men unpacking a new iPhone – and then swapping the SIM. Well everyone does, don’t

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Flickr Video Launch

Published April 10, 2008

Video on Flickr? Originally uploaded by heather So here it is the first video example on flickr. I’ve been neglecting my image output of late, so I cant think when I’ll have a video to share.

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Steve Chen & Me

Published March 20, 2008

Steve Chen & Me Originally uploaded by benhamin. Just had the pleasure of meeting Steve Chen the co-founder of YouTube. I write the new media column for Inside Film and was chosen to go and interview

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