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August 2006 - Posts
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The WOW Report reports* that the world will end in a week, via the thisisaknife vodcast. Strictly speaking, this is inaccurate - it's only the beginning of the end. "Overseer" Yisrayl Hawkins of the House of Yahweh has recently used the Internet as a Read More
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The Alternate Reality Gaming Network wonders if YouTube's lonelygirl15 is the innocent video diarist that she appears to be: The white-hot spark of a YouTube user named LonelyGirl15
has set the dry timber of the summer Internet community ablaze.
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I find retro newspapers quite amusing, and the good folks at Modern Mechanix blog seem to agree. This blog documents all the best articles from Mechanix Illustrated, the How-To-Do magazine from the early 20th century.
It's only a short Read More
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Another panel of interest that I attended at the 2006 Penny Arcade Expo was "Forums, Blogs and Fanbois: The Role of Community and PR in the Game Industry". Here are my notes from the event. Although the discussion focuses on gaming fans and game development, Read More
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After the huge success of TechCrunch.com, which now has more than 100k readers - well done, they have launched a UK site which will be focusing on UK based start-ups.Sam Sethi will be editing the site.One page which stood out for me was the events Read More
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Kotaku's take, and Joystiq's take.My favorite comment on Kotaku: "40+ year old balding white men hate blogs."You hear that, Steve Rubel? Give up this charade: The blogosphere is ON TO YOU.While we're on the subject, I'd like to give shout outs to Kotaku's Read More
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I had a great time, learned a lot, met cool people, had my mind blown several times, and embarrassed
myself in a multiplayer Castle Crashers game by hitting the wrong
buttons on the game controller. (Hey, I roll old school, all right? In
my day we Read More
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“You have two ears and one mouth. I suggest that you use them in that proportion.”G.K. Chesterton Read More
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As I mentioned a few posts ago, I'm going to be attending the Penny Arcade Expo videogame convention in Bellevue, Washington this weekend. If you're also attending and you see me there, please say hello! Here's what I look like:
Okay, I don't look Read More
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I'm a novice golfer and have been playing for almost 2 years having been given some lessons for a birthday a couple of years ago.Each year I set my self some targets both of which I have done so far, I haven't worked out next year's suggestions welcome.year Read More
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The "I pinch" crab from the Honda Element commercials has more than 62,000 friends on MySpace.Man, I only have 31. Maybe I need a catchphrase? Suggestions are welcome.Tags: MySpace, Honda Element, "I pinch" Read More
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There's been new developments to my post on the David Brent Microsoft UK training videos. Apparently, as ZDNet reports, they were leaked. Microsoft is investigating how two internal training videos created in 2003 by UK comics Ricky Gervais and Stephen Read More
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Scoble has a post in which, among a whole load of other things, he talks about some info that came up at an MSN advertising conference.
"I’ll tell you what executives from big companies (like Kraft, Procter and Gamble, GM, and others) who were at Read More
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Discount airline company Ryanair posted this photo on its website today with the caption, "NEW AIRPORT SECURITY PROCEDURES PUT FUN BACK INT0 FLYING"Fig. 1 - Unhappy naked people in an airportThe Guardian reports that Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary (joined Read More
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Two tongue-in-cheek videos by Ricky Gervais for Microsoft UK have finally been leaked into the Internet. Gervais, and partner in comedy Stephen Merchant, were commissioned almost two years ago to create faux training videos for Microsoft UK employees, Read More
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Ha! It took me a second to realize it, but Etsy's front page for today features art and crafts that reflect the dual themes of "snakes" and "planes". Nice.The Inside the Net podcast has a good interview with the creators of Etsy, with plenty to interest Read More
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For the last couple of weeks I've been on holiday and made a concerted effort not to turn on my laptop and watched very little TV. I've come back and YouTube seems to have made the jump from online to offline phenomenon.On the way into work I read Read More
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Inspired by Steve Grant's report from the E3 videogame show, I'll be attending the Penny Arcade Expo in Bellevue, WA the weekend after next. I'm very excited about the panels "Forums, Blogs and Fanbois: The Role of Community and PR in the Game Industry" Read More
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Steve Rubel has a post about why marketers should think like VC's which references the ComScore top 50 digital media properties for 2001. This reminded me of an article which I read recently by Tim Bray titled Measuring the Web which tries to answer the Read More
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Mozilla Firefox users are continually coming up with inventive ways to promote their favorite Web browser. The Fox Tales blog reports that one enterprising lad recently began a "Firefox for Prom Queen" campaign at his high school.Sadly, the school ruled Read More
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