Archive for June, 2007

When will your customers start holding you hostage?

June 29, 2007

Using flickr as a platform to protest flickr’s censorship is a real mindbender and appears to be paradoxical on some levels. Since an organization into censoring would likely want to censor dissenting opinion about their censorship policies.
What it really shows is the perceived ownership that people have over their shared spaces.  This is nothing new, [...]

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Microsoft Surface Parody

June 20, 2007

“One Day your computer will be a big ass table…”
SarasticGamer parodies the Microsoft Surface teasers.

Original (if you haven’t seen it already) below:

While the interface and tech behind the Microsoft Surface looks interesting, every time I look at it I can’t help but think of the cigarette-burned and cloudy-screened tabletop pacman games from the 80s.
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Forza motorsport gets the jaggies

June 19, 2007

Air Canada cancels my flight and has me stuck in the airport bar for a while. So for the first time in a while I am exposed to real live TV ads, as I usually download only the ads on youtube that I want to see.
I look up from my laptop to see an [...]

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The indirect benefits of Social Media

June 18, 2007

The ROI of Social Media is a conversation that drives me batty sometimes. I understand why it comes up, but to focus on it in my opinion is to miss the point of media as conversation. Just because something is unmeasurable or only partially measurable does not mean that it has no value. For [...]

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Prometeous – And the Rise of the Video Essay

June 15, 2007

Cool little prognostication video about the future of media making the rounds today. (thanks to Klint from work pointing this one out).

Pete Gardiner, our CD here at Venture Communications has dubbed this kind of thing as the “Video Essay”, which is a term I really like and have seen dozens now ranging from the the [...]

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