Monthly Archives: May 2008
Honda: Live ad
Fair play. After much talk recently on this here blog of advertising, here’s a great one from Honda – a LIVE advert featuring sky divers broadcast on Channel 4 from Spain. Over to Jai & Wal to tell you about it. I’d love to see more live online adverts and stuff. It’s been done [...]
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Facing the reality of PR perception on the web
UPDATE – I’ve created PR Fail as a way to help people face the reality of the perception of PR on the web, be better and stop doing bad things. A ’see what happens’ thing.
UPDATE 2/6 – it’s still going on and this time there’s accusations flying around about the integrity of the [...]
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Son of Derek
Spot the Bull is back. And it’s better. This time it’s not Derek, it’s Winston (Son of Derek). There’s more features and it’s still a great idea incredibly well executed where you bet on the location of a cow (calculated via GPS and plotted live on a grid overlay on a webcam feed) in a [...]
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Reality: Worst game ever.
This really did make me chuckle. Found via Popurls, so you’ve probably already seen it.
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Thinking Micro
I went to the Chinwag Micro Media Maze event last night to talk about micro media and web stuff. The panel was really good and included Umair Haque (Director, Havas Media Lab / Bubblegeneration), Gerd Leonhard (Media Futurist, Author, Entrepreneur), Mitch McAlister (Product Director (Europe), MySpace), Miles Lewis (SVP, European Advertising Sales, Last FM) and [...]
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Look what the cat dragged in today
A slow worm. Oh joy. I have a real fear of snakes and even though this is technically a lizard of sorts, it’s very much a snake to someone that doesn’t like snakes.
Although these lizards are often mistaken for snakes, there are a number of features that differentiate them from snakes. The most important [...]
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Muto
“An ambiguous animation painted on public walls”. Really rather good indeed and I can’t believe how long it lasts for! More here.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
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A brand is what you (the internet) says it is
Sorry, yet another link to something from Noah Brier (via TIGS). A good one though. If ever there was an example of ‘do as thy say’ then this is surely it. A while back (thinking about it, because he was in the middle of building this) Noah quite rightly said that a brand is what [...]
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Nice one Frank
Yes, I know . . . another post about Twitter, just like the one before and like so many others right now. But, just wanted to acknowledge this great example of a massive company using Twitter really well as a way of keeping an eye out for customers with problems and doing everything it can [...]
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Procrastination, the cool guys and conversations with your mum