Category Archives: found stuff

Haircut Menu

Haircut Menu, Broadway on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Spotted in the window of a barbers on Broadway (hence poor reflection and that). I’ll have a number 24 please.

The curious case of Masal Bugduv

The curious case of Masal Bugduv: a made up Moldovan footballer is “about to sign” for Arsenal, Liverpool and Reading(?) but is the work of a fine prankster.

My Twitter quiz hell « Prospect Magazine

idlewild had a song called 'Text Mesaging is Killing the Pub Quiz' – this is a merry dance on its corpse, and we must have one. – My Twitter quiz hell « Prospect Magazine.

Passive Agressive Email Marketing

Got this today from CoTweet (which I like, it’s really the only CRM service for Twitter):

“CoTweet is not for everyone. It’s designed for teams who are managing the front-line of the real-time web for their organizations. It’s for people committed to engaging customers in authentic two-way conversations, rather than just broadcasting messages to followers.… If [...]

West Wing — it’s the Manics for the over 30s

Not that the Manics aren’t now for the over 30s too. Think about it, long complicated sentences that struggle to fill the available time, politics references you don’t get first time — AND Bradley Whitford looks a bit like James Dean Bradfield.

How PR works

I think we know this already,
“Suits make a corporate comeback,” says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because [...]

Random Acts Of Reality :: Rebuttal

“I was somewhat perturbed. Actually I was flaming furious. You see, despite the mistakes, it also implies other things.” Random Acts Of Reality
Probably a much better example of what I was taling about here.

I’m like Moses, but for Twitter – Paul Carr lays down his 10 Commandments | Technology | guardian.co.uk

“Commandment Nine: Thou shalt not retweet compliments This phenomenon I really don’t understand, especially not when it’s my British friends doing it (Americans get their usual shamelessness pass). So someone complimented you or your business on Twitter? Great! I’m pleased for you, I really am. But RT’ing the compliment? You might as well stand in [...]

Richard Herring bypasses “broadcast” with new show

“a new sketch/stand up show that I am going to be doing on Monday nights in the autumn at the Leicester Sq theatre and which will be released on iTunes. It’s called, “As It Occurs To me” and it’s going to made up of things I have thought about that week and reconstructions of stuff [...]

Yahoo’s When isn’t so hot on where

Supposedly “hyperlocal” thing from Yahoo, hasn’t quite got the “local” bit, yet.
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