Culture

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 [...]

Sleeveface Trend

Posted by dwalker on February 14, 2008 at 9:17 am
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Was just alerted to this trend this morning. People using old album covers as masks and taking photos and upping them to flickr, facebook, etc. Great fun and gives me a reason to crack out some of my old vinyl again.
Sleeveface Flickr Pool
Sleeveface.com
I know this makes me sound old, but this makes me nostalgic [...]

Giving of yourself

Posted by dwalker on February 5, 2008 at 11:28 am

The wife of co-worker of mine is recognizing the anniversary of her mother’s death in a thoughtful and interesting way. She runs a Calgary-based child photography business called Tot Shots and also has Tot Shots Blog. Coming from an enthusiastic, but hack photographer of my own child, I like her style a lot.
She is offering [...]

Interruption Vs. Engagement

Posted by dwalker on January 14, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Interesting article in Emarketer on three hidden 2008 trends. While I wouldn’t exactly call these three trends “hidden” they are not easily supported with numbers (which is eMarketer’s raison d’etre).
1. Increased media fragmentation – important, but The Long Tail opened and closed the book on that as a trend.
2. Internet as central hub for marketing [...]

If everyday purchases had Terms of Service

Posted by dwalker on January 11, 2008 at 3:28 pm

Garbage Terms of Service, ULAs and other forms of nonsense legal documentation drive me nuts. By virtue of being in the web business if I had to read and understand every ULA that I “agreed to” I could never get any work done.
I firmly believe that it is the responsibility of any web or software [...]