We're stoked to be a part of Savannah's first ever Ignite event, which is coming up this Monday evening.

We've been digging the Ignite format for quite some time. If you're not familiar with Ignite, it got started a few years ago by some smart Seattle geeks who were looking for a fun way to network and share ideas. Since then, Ignite has turned into a global phenomenon with chapters in cities across the globe.

Speakers at Ignite events get five minutes and 20 slides to share an idea, a format that keeps presentations moving along and fun. No death by powerpoint!

That will be the format for Savannah's Ignite event, which is also part of Global Ignite Week. Events like Savannah's will be going on all over the world next week.

The Savannah event will feature nine speakers on a range of topics from how rap and country music intersect to Foursquare ethics and the future of food.

We hope you Low Country creatives will join us. Here are the event details:
What: Ignite presented by Social Media Club of Savannah and SEED Eco Lounge, with support by BFG Communications
When: Monday, March 1st, 6-8 pm
Where: SEED Eco Lounge, 39 Montgomery Street, downtown Savannah
Cost: FREE
Click here for more details.

One of the big stories in social media last week was Clerk's director Kevin Smith's Twitter tirade after being bounced from a Southwest Airlines flight allegedly for being too fat to fly. As you might expect, there's a lot of he said/she said insofar as the details of the actual incident are concerned. (If you are unfamiliar with this story, check out the related links at the bottom of this post.)

The goal of this post isn't to take a side concerning whether Kevin Smith is too fat or not too fat to fly, nor is it to debate the fairness of Southwest Airlines' policy concerning its personal space allocation for each passenger. This post is about the empowerment of the individual consumer due largely to social media and the aggregate power of internet search.

A little more than a decade ago, if an individual consumer had an issue with the way they were treated by a company their options were relatively limited: speak to a supervisor, write a letter, or call a customer relations hotline. And if the consumer was unsatisfied with the company's response, they had little recourse beyond telling their family, friends, and co-workers about their negative experience.

Historically, companies have not had to worry much about bad word of mouth from individual consumers because the average consumer is limited largely by geography in his/her...

When I first saw Old Spice's Super Bowl spot, "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like", my first reaction was so... it's The Most Interesting Man in the World (Dos Equis) meets Axe Body Wash? I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either. And since its debut I've actually come to appreciate the commercial's sense of humor.

Whether you like the spot or not, what is truly impressive is how the spot was produced. Are you ready for this? The whole thing was done in one shot. Given the fact that the guy is in the shower, then on a boat, and finally on a horse, it's truly an impressive feat from a production standpoint. Check out this video where the two writers, from Wieden + Kennedy, explain how the spot was engineered. Well done, gentlemen. Well done.

If you're the kind of person who gets great ideas while in the bathroom, you have something in common with Flaming Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne. What you probably don't have in common is a bathroom that complements such ideation sessions.

Design Milk describes the reason for this trippy, pod-like bathroom.

Wayne Coyne’s imagination is constantly running wild and this space definitely does not try to stop it. As Wayne says, he can get up in the morning and go from his "strange, artistic bedroom" and into his "strange, futuristic bathroom." His dreaming doesn’t have to end when he gets out of bed.

From the vibrant colors to the whimsical feel, the design by FitzSimmons Architects is what I would expect for the man who crowdsurfs in a giant bubble and can wax on about what it means to live a truly happy and inspired life.

Don't you wish your old concert t-shirts could live forever? Forever is tall order, but thanks to Hello Rewind, those old Motley Crue tees get the chance to embark on a nostalgia infused farewell tour. Hello Rewind recycles old t-shirts and makes them into cozy laptop sleeves. You send them your old t-shirt; they send you back a custom laptop sleeve.

The best part is not just that Hello Rewind takes something old and makes something new, but they also work with Restore NYC to teach job skills to survivors of the sex trafficking trade, many of whom emerge with no marketable skills. In fact, many of the laptop sleeves made by Hello Rewind are hand-crafted by sex trafficking survivors.

Looks like it's time to go through the t-shirt drawer. I'm sure there's an old Def Leppard t-shirt in there somewhere.