Rob Manuel, one of the blokes who set up b3ta.com

came in to wieden + kennedy today to give a talk about the history of his site. We thought it might be interesting to hear about web design from someone who isn’t really a web designer.

It was a funny talk and fascinating to hear how daft jokes thought up in the pub have turned into a site that generates all sorts of extremely popular viral content. It’s a great demonstration of the power of the Net to turn odd little ideas into things that can influence mainstream culture.http://www.b3ta.com/features/phalliclogoawards/

The stuff on the site is self confessedly stupid and non-pc – see the phallic logo awards

– but it’s often very funny, gets passed round  quickly and often gets ripped off by the newspapers. You might have seen some of his quizzes too – http://www2.b3ta.com/gruesometwosomes/.