Sony Advert Toryglen – Glasgow Originally uploaded by l y n d s a y. A photo taken the day after the shoot..the blocks will be demolished
Bravia – making the ad
The blog for the Sony Bravia has gone quiet over the last week, after they have finished filming – they all busy doing the editing know. There’s some great footage over on YouTube of the towerblock being covered in paint and then of the air blasts going off.
That Girl Emily – the end of the campaign
Emily, the poster girl for Court TV (see here and here for info and explanation) has reached the end of her campaign of terror on her cheating husband. And whilst there were some interesting stunts during the last 2 weeks, the reveal is rather dissapointing. Also, if you think someone is cheating on you, I […]
System Admin Day
It’s SysAdmin Appreciation day today. Over at UKUUG, they;v eproduced a nice little song for your amusement
NPost – entreprenerial interviews
Nathan Kaiser, the CEO of nPost, is doing his own brand of marketing by reaching out to bloggers who may have an interest in his site. nPost.com is a site devoted to entrepreneurship. We interview CEOs and Founders of small and startup businesses. Our interviews focus on their ideas, insights, experiences, and goals for each […]
New Lynx campaign
Lynx (or Axe as it ges under in most of the world) have a new campaign out. Not moving too far away from its core values, the site features lots of scantily clad women in videos and games. It also has the expected (compulsary?) user generated content competition. Load up your video of you (the […]
Vodafone viral
Yesterday there was Virgin mobile, now a Vodafone campaign. This one is pretty…lots and lots of cute animals and landscapes. The idea here is to promote their free weekend rates; by calling the number you can add your mesage and have it played on the site. The viral stuff comes from being able to send […]
Severance Movie game
From today’s viral notifications we have something a movie trailer and a little more. Severance is a UK horror film, sending a team of sales people out on a ‘team building’ event in the wilds when somethign goes a little wrong. I’m sure many people have had to endure the horror of team building events […]
Virgin festival Tickets viral
From today’s delivery of viral sites comes this offering from Virgin. Here you can actually win something – tickets to the Virgin Mobile V festivals taking place at the end of August (in the Uk only) . The site offers a nice little game to amuse for a few minutes, then a chance to enter […]
New Media Awards
Last night the magazine the New Statesman presented its New Media Awards 2006. These awards have been running since 1998, with categories changing to reflect the development of ‘new media’: The awards aim to recognise those that both realise the potential of new media technology and have the commitment and stamina to effectively execute their […]
Geek Activism
One of the posts I did find in trawling the new Technorati was Devanshu’s 95 Theses of Geek Activism. A great list og things that you should be concerned about, tying in well with many of the talks I attended over the weekend. Jello Biafra gave a a superb 2 hour keynote, focusing on the […]
the New Technorati
My first reaction on looking at the newly designed technorati was not quite sure, the colours were not quite right, the information was not where it was. It was strange and different. But then I started to click around and I like it. Discover section: automated popularity instead of voted. Find out who is linking […]
Doctor Who viral
From the viral mailing list today, we get a link to a new Doctor Who game, to keep you amused now the series has finished for the year. Not really a viral, more a link to an existing website. You get to be K9, move round the maze, collect things, avoid the baddies and get […]
Blackout Country
The US has been suffering a number of blackouts as the heatwave hits the countries ability to provide enough electricity to run all the air conditioners. The blackouts have affected MySpace, which was down for most of the weekend; at times the error message blamed the blackouts and sometimes, like currently, states the outage is […]
HOPE: Literacy and Gutenberg
In one of the talks on Friday, on text to speech software, a series of statistics about the US reading habits were thrown up on the screen. Co-incidently (i think) the same set of stats appeared on on Jeff Jarvis’s blog, sourced from Dan Poynter. One-third of high school graduates never read another book for […]
The old ways are best?
Weiden & Kennedy in London are advertising for a new Creative Director, in the free ads in Tesco (a supermarket, something like walmart). Or at least someone is advertising for them – I wonder which campaign got the person upset?
Hope: Privacy is Dead
I was looking forward to the Privacy is Dead panel at Hope today. Someone had volunteered to be the target and Steve Ramban, from Pallorium Ltd, had spent time gathering all the information he could, producing about a 500 page dossier. Instead, we were told that Steve had been arrested the evening before by FBI […]
Spam email
My domain is being used in a spam email, so I’m currently sitting on about 3000 returned/out of office mails. Not the best problem to have. Now I have to go through and delete everything 🙁
DRM free music by Yahoo
Yahoo have released for sale a song that is DRM free. (One song only, mind you). Unfortunately it’s Jessica Simpson – but you can get it personalised before you download it – get your name in the song. As the Yahoo blog puts it We’ve also been saying that DRM has a cost. It’s very […]
Emily Goes Global (or at least the UK)
The story of thatgirlemily has spread to the UK. The Metro apparently had a shot of the billboard in Los Angeles with the caption: “Californication: A wife takes revenge on her cheating husband by buying a giant billboard poster to abuse him and ridicule his manhood. The woman, known only as Emily, paid more than […]