Jobs on Zune
From Fast Company: Steve Jobs on the iPod .Vs Zune . Steve Jobs blasts the ability to ‘send’ music to other people via Microsoft’s new Zune player (apparantly it takes a long time and they can only play the DRM enabled track 3 times)…
Nerd Recruitment
Saw this recruitment ad on the MediaTemple site. It made me chuckle. In case you’re interested (and are a ‘picked last in gym’ kind of nerd it links here. Incidentally, if you run your own website and are looking for hosting that can…
Spam Names
Checking my junk email folder this morning, to make sure nothing important had been misplaced, I noticed just how great the names of these junk mailers are. (I know, I know, they make up the names so that the junk mail filters don’t spot…
Aaaargh!
Could this be the most pointless thing ever? Probably not. But it’s a massive folly of some description. Someone has spent a whole heap of money creating a video based ‘human face’ to a search engine. Type in your search and Ms Dewey makes…
One Day in History
I liked this idea about capturing a day in history through blogs: ‘One Day in History’ is a one off opportunity for you to join in a mass blog for the national record. We want as many people as possible to record a ‘blog’ diary which will…
Participation Inequality
Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities. Jakob Nielsen’s piece on the split between lurkers, synthesisers and creators. He puts it at a 90-9-1 rule. But has some other interesting examples, like blogging…
Nice Pret
I know Pret a Manger are part owned by McHorrors so I shouldn’t go there. But me and Nik just went in to one and ordered a coffee, and the man gave us them for free. He said: “it’s Friday afternoon, these are on the house”. So, because…
Interactive Cinema Ads
Brazillian interactive cinema ad for Fiat using text messages. More details on the MIT Advertising Lab blog Interesting idea, and something we’ve had discussions about before. But I always felt it was really irresponsible to do something…
Uh-oh Flashmobbing’s Back
And this time around, thanks to YouTube, you can witness it from multiple angles! I always thought that flashmobbing was a bit twee and a bit “aren’t we all wacky”, and I still have reservations. But, if I’m being honest, it looks a bit…
Masculine Man
I’ve been pondering issues around this whole Carnival of the Modern Man thing. And one thing that sticks in my head is that the word masculine almost conjours up an image of the exact opposite in my mind. The only people I can picture in…
Second Life Primer
This video makes Second Life look pretty interesting (although I do sense a bit of hyperbole in there…). Personally I still can’t get my head into Second Life. Changing my outfit was by far the most interesting bit. via Big Picture
Advertising to Man in Captivity
Toilet media. I’m sure at a point it seems like a good idea: You get 99% (I’m guessing) accuracy in gender targetting People aren’t just rushing past Blokes don’t know where to look when urinating next to other blokes, so give them an ad…