Beware of Stock Footage

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Viral | 2 Comments »

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 ...

Twitter Rant

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Opinion, Social Media, Tools, Web 2.0, Word of Mouth | 8 Comments »

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 ...

Getting bored of Facebook

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Attention, Opinion, Social Media, Trends, Viral | 2 Comments »

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 ...

Future of Software?

Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Attention, Trends, Web 2.0 | No Comments »

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 ...

KFCs Unintended Profanity

Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Culture, Funny | No Comments »

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 ...