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Beware of Stock Footage

Posted by dwalker on March 22, 2008 at 6:44 pm

Only in the Age of YouTube could the people from stock footage be able to speak out about how their footage is used.
I can’t stand political attack ads, but this one comes off okay in my book. I also appreciate that Obama campaign didn’t take the easy route out and make it look like the [...]

Twitter Rant

Posted by dwalker on March 11, 2008 at 10:28 am

I hate twitter with a passion.
I can’t live without twitter.
Twitter is a complete waste-of-time.
Twitter is a valuable part of my day.
Twitter links me to some really smart people who find fascinating stuff.
Twitter shows me that even the A-listers are people who can be smart, dumb, mean and kind. In short, human.
Twitter gives me direct access [...]

Getting bored of Facebook

Posted by dwalker on March 2, 2008 at 10:34 am

This “We didn’t start the Fire”format is getting a bit tired, the execution is not great, but I couldn’t agree more with the message.

Just about everyone I know is spending considerably less time on Facebook these days comscore reports that the ads don’t work. So if they aren’t gaining user time and having a tough [...]

Future of Software?

Posted by dwalker on February 25, 2008 at 4:42 pm

If you are a mac twitter user, you probably know about twitterific or similar programs. I just installed it and was checking out the pricing options and came across the image you see to the left here.
I have seen various versions of this type of “nagware” licesnse before in shareware, but this was the most [...]

KFCs Unintended Profanity

Posted by dwalker on February 25, 2008 at 8:45 am
KFC - It’s F______cking Good

Forwarded to me by my brother, Graham. Who made an excellent point about it:
“It is interesting though that in the days before the internet, something like this would almost never get seen. With the ease of distribution we all get to enjoy this fingerlicking goodness that one person was creative enough to notice.”
So an [...]