Learn from the Fail Whale: failing doesn’t need to hurt

If there’s one thing all Twitter users have in common, it’s that they’ve experienced down time. Twitter is famous for it’s long and regular down times, and since the service is growing so fast, it will continue to be unavailable fairly frequently for quite a while. Usually, with the fickle web audience, this would mean […]

Video: White Label eCampaign for U.S. President

In this fun little (supposedly viral) video campaign by the marketers of vanksen culturebuzz you can get personalized campaigning coverage for your candidacy for U.S. president. Consider it a viral meta e-campaign. The one I created below shows the groundswell support for Dr. Jekyll.

Create your own.

How to work The Internets (not!) #1

No 1 of my new series How to work The Internets (not!).
Under the unflattering title “Webtards: Mc Cain And Obama Reps Hold Worst Presidential Debate Ever On Twitter“, Gawker describes John McCain’s campaign video game:
McCain’s game is a sad imitation of Space Invaders, a pixelated smash hit c. 1983, but with pigs in place […]

I Work For The Internets: The shirt arrived

A few days ago MT and I shirt up on Spreadshirt that reads “I work for teh internets“. (Not to be confused with The Google that George W. Bush uses.) We’ve set them up for print-on-demand, and mine just arrived a few days ago. Gotta say, the black-on-black print is pretty kick ass.

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I work for teh Internets

During the last couple of days, particularly at next08, I’ve had a few very funny discussions about the nature of our jobs, and how you can’t explain any of our internet-related jobs to our parents or non-web friends. (Yes, there are some of those out there!)
As M.T. pointed out, one way to go is […]

Mashup Online Magazine That Writes Itself

That’s an art project I’d love to see one of these days: An online magazine that writes itself, based on a calendar, a pre-written set of tags connected to the calendar, and a bunch of RSS feeds.
Imagine, just for simplicity’s sake, a lifestyle magazine for women. (Of course, every other type of magazine would […]