It must be the week for parodies…I’ve got a a few more just sitting and clustering up the tabs. The first takes the piss out of the US MPAA warning about video piracy – before Lay’s (un)timely demise. Unfortunately the UK version does not have a similar backing tune so may not be as fun […]
Cancelling the account
One possible measure of success is the parody. When Vincent Ferrari tried to cancel his AOL account, his recording of the reps attempts to keep him went quickly around the web. But Mark Day has now taken this and imagined himself trying to cancel a Playboy account and all the extra offers that could come […]
belly dancing
belly dancing Originally uploaded by RachelC. A morocco restaurant means entertainment. A badly taken photo from the phone in the darkness of a Moroccan restaurant as the ‘traditional;’ belly dancer entertains the crowd. She managed to get half of the table up and dancing (there is a video if I can get it off the […]
London 2012 a year on
The news comes through Originally uploaded by RachelC. A year ago a colleague and I wandered down to Trafalgar Square to watch the announcement about who would host the 2012 Olympics. The place was packed and had been filling up for hours. As the announcer stated London the place erupted with cheers and claps and […]
Amanda Deboomed
Amanda Congdon has apparently left Rocketboom and from the sound of it is not too happy with the split. The main site just has archives and no current show. (Update – the Rocketboom site is currently showing a statement about Amadna wanting to move to LA to pursue other opportunities, a slightly different version to […]
Community Content
The rise in cameraphones/videos, desktop publishing and the ease of adding content to the social network sites such as myspace and bebo is driving the internet hall of fame. You can be forever famous for 15 people through your prose, spoken word or mimed dance video. And there seems to be an evergrowing appetite for […]
Germany 0 Italy 2
Wow. Great game Good football between the 2 sides, a ref that ikept the game going and ignoring any play acting, just a demostration of footballing skills. The airport lounge on Sunday had Saturday’s papers, all full of stories about how great the England team were and how they had a brilliant chance of going […]
Heatwave
I got back from New York to find Britain in the midst of a heatwave. Not that it is too much hotter than New York, and far less humid, but this is the UK – we really don’t do extremes. The weather reports have been giving out advice on how to cope with the wether, […]
Germany: Penalties
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.