A definite highlight of my trip to Chicago last week was a visit to Wrigley Field to see a baseball game. My first ever such visit took me to the home of the Chicago Cubs to see them play the Baltimore Orioles. As you may imagine, an Englishman watching a baseball game in America without [...]
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It’s a novel ideal – provide an easy way for people who want to pitch you to do so via Twitter. Imagine – a pitch in 140 characters or less and that comes not via email! And so we have TwitterPitch, a plugin for WordPress blogs running version 2.5 or later, developed by Aaron Brazell: [...]
Any idea what that phrase means? It’s a good example of the type of jargon that you still encounter in much of the business world. But it’s not only the business world that’s awash with pompous words and phrases that confound and confuse normal people. The Daily Telegraph reports that local councils have been ordered [...]
Ok, kids, you want to understand Web 2.0? Forget all the corp-speak about "user-generated content" or – even worse – "platforms" and "applications." Just watch this. All you need is here. From Nokia. Nice connection (no pun) with their slogan, "Connecting People." (Via TechCrunch) [Update 20/11] As noted in the comments, the person at Nokia [...]
This is one of those delightful mashups of software, the web and imagination that doesn’t really have much obvious practical application but is great fun. MSN China is running the MSN China cartoon beta that will take any photo of you and, with your customizations on the website, turn it into a series of cartoons. [...]
I can’t decide which one is the hilarious one – The Great Internet Crash of 2007 MoD’s PR army of spin is out of control You decide.
Yesterday’s Dilbert strip. Amusing yet eerily reflective of what actually does happen in some companies. Scott Adams is wickedly perceptive about organizations.
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