A great example for charities on why social media is both scary (you can lose control of the message) but also powerful (losing control is OK), from an example of a Greenpeace campaign over naming a whale. ‘Mr Splashy Pants’ was the name over 70% of people online wanted, but it wasn’t what the charity [...]
Watching Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England speaking live at the Mansion House he said something to the effect that the church did weddings and funerals, and people ignored the sermons. He said the Bank of England did sermons and burials, fluffing the intended analogy. The BBC then reported that the Bank said [...]
Today’s Daily Telegraph carries the following story online: “Russia accuses Poland of starting Second World War -
Russia has accused Poland of provoking the outbreak of the Second World War by refusing to accede to the “very modest” demands of Nazi Germany.”
I had just downloaded the Telegraph’s mobile G1 Android version on to my mobile, and [...]
Amused by the fact that when you go to complete your LinkedIn profile it gives you the option of customizing the url to something more people friendly. For example changing your public profile from http://www.linkedin.com/pub/king-kong/10/466/577 to www.linkedin.com/in/king-kong.
What’s amusing about this is that the page link to more information about ‘customizing’ your url is: http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?editwp=&locale=en_US&trk=mypro_getvanity. So [...]
Nice piece on Inside Facebook.
Amusing too when one considers last year’s April Fool that Google had bought Facebook; which I found out about just this week as someone who will remain nameless who works in e-commerce told me this merger as a stone cold fact. I really hope he was joking. Anyhow, piece below:
RBC [...]
Someone accidentally sent this to me by email yesterday..
A LETTER FROM THE BOSS…..
As the VP of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our President, and that our taxes, and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase [...]
I have to file my P35 and P14. I reach for for HMRC Employer CD-ROM for 2008-09. It appears to be malfunctioning, with a series of audio tracks and no data. So I call the Online Services Helpdesk and report the issue. The response? That a very small number of the CD-ROMs were incorrectly loaded [...]
The theory that the internet phrase lol,meaning “laugh out loud”, can be placed at any part in any sentence and make said sentence lose all credibilty and seriousness.
ex 1
Doc: We need to operate on your colon lol, you have cancer.
ex 2
Jesus: Take this all of you and eat it, it is my body, lol.
ex 3
Me: [...]
MS sacks 1,400 workers. Miscalculates the severance payemnts. Asks for money back. Here’s the result of the poll on ZDnet asking…
What would you do?
Forget that. I’m out of work and need every dollar I can get. Let them sue me if they want it back. (70%)
It’s not my money. I’d write the check and send [...]
“A report on cannabis prepared for next year’s UN drug policy review will suggest that a “regulated market” would cause less harm than the current international prohibition. The report, which is likely to reopen the debate about cannabis laws, suggests that controls such as taxation, minimum age requirements and labelling could be explored.” Guardian, 2 [...]
