aaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh. Again they win on penalties.
Superman Returns
I went to see the new Superman Returns film late on Wednesday evening, at the insistence of a colleague who always goes to see new films on the opening weekend. He’d arranged tickets for the showing at an IMAX 3D showing. An hour before the showing we were lined up, pretty far back in the […]
Google Checkout
Google Checkout Originally uploaded by RachelC. Google Checkout launched today. The selling points are a single place to put your credit card info for multiple online sites, a fraud protection policy and anti spam measures, ie you don’t have to give you email address to the stores you buy from. I usually sign up for […]
Ford Bold Moves
Going one better than GM’s Fastlane Blog, Ford this week launch BoldMoves.com, tying in with their new campaign in the US. This is a reality video blog, documenting the trials and tribulations of the company as they try and find a new direction. Ford is allowing cameras into business meetings throughout the comonay and also […]
BBC and the editors
The BBC have opened to the public their internal blog from The Editors Welcome to The Editors, a site where we, editors from across BBC News, will share dilemmas and issues that surround our services. Jeff Jarvis talks about it here. The blog explores the news behind the news, opening the process of gathering and […]
People formally Known as the Audience
Jay Rosen has a piece about the changing balance of power from media to all. The people formerly known as the audience wish to inform media people of our existence, and of a shift in power that goes with the platform shift you’ve all heard about. . You don’t own the eyeballs. You don’t own […]
The Naming of Things
Sitting in a restaurant last night watching the world go by, I was not really paying too much attention and thoughts were just floating across the brain. Everytime a car came by, it got classified as ‘car’, with exceptions for ‘policecar’, ‘taxi’ and ‘mini’. I’d probably put a name to the VW Beetle as well. […]
People Aggregator Launches
Marc Canter’s Broadband Mechanics’ People Aggregator launches today. There are multiple ways to network through ‘relationships’, joining (and creating) groups and networks. It currently ties into Flickr and del.icio.us and allows you to post directly to your blog, using the service outputthis.com. There’s a strong structured blogging/microformats background, with the ability to add reviews, people, […]
BA Support
I’m currently trying to change some travel plans. but the British Airways website keeps giving me this error : “We are encountering a temporary fault, please try again. If the problem persists, please contact your booking agent.” So I ring up the number I find, choose the only option that appears to lead me to […]
Guinness Ad wins Grand Prix
Nice to see Guinness win a coveted award at the weekend for the Noitulove commercial. This ad cost over 1million GBP to make, full of CGI and expensive filming. To see it you can go to YouTube, although a better quality version (although with an age and country check) is available on the official site. […]
Football Weekend
Yea to England. A reasonable game, but nothing to get excited about. Beckham hit a cracker of a free kick, but the rest of the time too far off target. Not sure if the formation worked – Rooney was left too often with little to do. But Jo Cole remains my favourite player, he is […]
Virtual Conferencing – Bloggercon
I’m virtually attending bloggercon today (and a little Supernova). There’s audio stream, IRC and great notes in pretty much real time from Doc Searl. It;s happening tomorrow as well, so well worth a looksee.
Advertising and the new Media
Cannes Advertising Festival is taking place this week, so it’s a perfect opportunity for the various execs to pipe up about how their business is adjusting to the new world. Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, talked on Monday in the Financial Times . The head of the UK advertising group also acknowledged the […]
Brew Blog
The Guinness Blog I worked on in my previous job took time and effort to work out the legal restrictions. I’m pretty sure the Glenfiddich blog (which I discovered today via Suw) had some similar issues, although their lawyers are not making them use a age check. But the Miller Brewing company are taking a […]
Mobile Tech meetup
Just more gear Originally uploaded by RachelC. Another thing I went to on Monday was the Mobile Tech Roundup Meetup, where a gaggle (or another collective noun for the 3 hosts) of mobile podcasters got to meet each other in new York instead of always being in different cities. Despite a lack of air conditioning, […]
Studio Work
Prep Work Originally uploaded by RachelC. On Monday I got the chance to spend a little time in the studio where some of the content for a site I’m working on is being filmed. There was no actual business reason to be there – I just wanted to see what a filming set looked like! […]
Orbit gum, Snoop Dogg and Do Not Call
Updated…now I’ve put the password here! And the URL for the site is www.goodcleanfeeling.com There’s a US campaign for Orbit Gum that involves a spokeswoman* suggesting that various characters clean up their mouths and language by using the gum. The latest version involves Snoop Dogg, beng sent to hell for using foul language in front […]
Rooney returns
During the England-Sweden match today (great first half..second half they needed shooting!) the ESPN commentators made one of their random remarks that I so try and ignore about Wayne Rooney being plastered all over billboards and papers with the cross of St George. This made no sense until I say this post from W&K explaining […]
Google ranking – the power of blogging
I’m getting a lot of traffic for my post on the World Cup online. Turns out the post is on the first page of the google search results for the phrase in amongst a lot of news and game sites. Now I’ve got a great example to show some clients the difference between live web […]
Second Life growing
Caught quite a few posts this week about Second Life. You have the clothing compnay American Apparel opening a store. The BBC are building a replica of their Maida Vale studios, from where they can simultaneously broadcast into Second Life as well as hving real-time interactions between band and audience. (From Jo) And Jeremy has […]