Archive for May, 2009

Angels & Demons & Point Guards…..oh my.
In what is by far the oddest example of a cross-promotion mash-up I have ever seen, this spot is running during the NBA playoffs this week.

First off, very well edited. You can tell they hired a pro and allocated a decent budget for this one. Also, it actually shows [...]

Let’s take a curmudgeonly look at some recent commercials with a critical eye towards the actors and the ‘creatives’ behind them.
First off…Why do so many actors in commercials today behave like they’re on drugs?
It seems that in almost every commercial I see lately, the actors are very sedated…almost completely out of touch with reality.
Here is [...]

This is a duplicate entry of a blog I contributed to www.MyTwitterExperiment.com. Read it there, or below.
A lot of people who join Twitter follow this 3 step pattern:
1) Begin following people and hope that somehow people will begin following them
2) Realize that Twitter is not the equivalent to the holy grail or an uncashed lottery [...]

The first site up: Qwitter.

A simple service, Qwitter shoots you an email when someone stops following you and accompanies that email with the last Tweet of yours that person received.
I signed up to Qwitter about a week ago. Since then I have checked my follower count often, keeping abreast of any of my [...]

Let’s take a decidedly unCurmudgeonly look at some of my favorite Twitter related sites (subject to change with zero notice):
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Visibletweets.com - A beautifully made site that allows you to search any keyword, then get rewarded with lovely animations in your choice of 3 types: letter by letter, tag cloud, or rotation. All are soothing and [...]


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