“fuck right off” real facebook error message

i was looking at the attendees to a a facebook event and where i showed up as an attendee the error message was quite explicit:
It’s you! But there’s like six other buttons that go to your profile, so fuck right off. Search
hmmm not sure if the facebook developers had inteded THAT particular message to actually [...]

tweetdeck vs. new twhirl

this is a subjective evaluation based on what’s important to me, and how i use twitter.
the short version for those short on time or attention span

twhirl
tweetdeck
winner

multiple panes that can be moved around the screen
one big giant windows
twhirl

no groups
has groups
tweetdeck

keyword tracking
no keyword tracking
twhirl

very clean interface
cluttered
twhirl

the new twhirl is a fantastic improvement but the winner is still [...]

citizen journalism is not: melbourne airport example

timing could not have been more opportune, there was some debate after my posting on citizen journalism.
so here’s the problem with selling twitter as a mainstream news source: without fact checking it’s just one big rumour mill.
see what happens when jonoh tells the world that there is a fire on a plane today in melbourne. [...]

dancing in the street: t-mobile flashmob

another well executed, smart, funny, and creative ad that happened to get viral.
somebody shook up a great big can of awesome sauce and busted it out here!

thanks to my colleague kate for this one.

a good viral video: asics

this video is simply brilliant. reasons why i think it works:

it tells a story
it does so in a very personal way;
it’s not trying to flog a product to me;
the visuals are interesting and appropriate and
it’s not trying to be a viral video.

compare it to another shoe company who gets a massive [...]

citizen journalism is not journalism

every time there is some horrible disaster the twitterati / blogosphere lights up with almost jubilant vindication. it’s starting to grate.
i was not conscious of this until i saw a Tweet by blogger @longzheng:
it’s a shame it takes an accident to “show off” the power of Twitter and community journalism. let’s just accept it works [...]

digital credibility: the divide between journos and bloggers

there are possibly thousands of articles online on how to increase your credibility online. many of them are written by search engine optimisation types, others are by social media “experts”. i want to approach this from a journalism / blogger perspective.
journos as i have discovered come from all walks of life. some of them went [...]

what’s the difference between a blogger and a journo?

at the cbs interactive christmas party in 2008 i had a conversation with sydney journalist @renailemay regarding whether or not there was a difference between journos and bloggers. renai was firmly of the opinion that both were one and the same. at the time i tended to disagree.
the debate has happened before and has even [...]

lame viral video – nike

this is what happens when a well funded brand sits down and says “let’s make a viral video”. you would think that it would work, it contains a celeb – taylor momsen of gossip girl fame – fancy running shoes and parkour. the acting is bad and it’s shot to look handycam when it isn’t [...]

john lennon back from the dead to promote olpc

this ad uses john’s digitally manipulated voice and likeness to promote the “one laptop per child program“.
no doubt it’s a worthy cause but anyone else think that it’s a little weird to use dead celebrities?

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