Adverblog shows us a new way of voicing your opinions on good and bad ads (in the physical world). In Berlin and Seoul, stickers with a happy or puking emoticon are pasted on top of ad posters.
A new type of tagging folksonomy?
Have you ever seen US Secretary of State Colin Powell dressed as one of the Village People? (let’s not go into his singing skills) Have you heard Bill Clinton play the sax? Or Tony Blair, the bass guitar? You can, in the video on this BBC Report. Good stuff!
Yesterday evening, [Walter](http://coolinsights.blogspot.com/), [Ivan](http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/), [Lucian](http://tribolum.com/) and I met for dinner and drinks at [Brussels Sprouts](http://www.brusselssprouts.com.sg/), a place I’ve been wanting to try for a while. In the midst of our conversations, I whipped out my iPhone and demonstrated all the things I could do with it, like taking photos, checking emails, strumming a guitar and…
I’ve been looking around for good graduate schools for Law and Mass Communication, and came across the USNews forum which was mentioned in the 2003 grad school guidebook. It was a little frustrating parting with eighteen bucks only to find that there were only a few pages in the guidebook covering the latter subject, so…
This has to be one of the most high-profile April Fool’s messages ever! Richard Branson and the Google founders team up to pull a fast one on us – complete with 2 YouTube videos and a [microsite](http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html)! Anybody wants to live on Mars? Perhaps all we’ll get is a chocolate bar.
29 years I’ve had this name and only now have I realised that the devil’s in it. This file was a photo of my (now dead) Maxtor hard drive. I’m a little shaken, amused and depressed. My Chinese name means US dollar, which is depreciating, and my English name has ‘satan’ in it.
After working here for over 3.5 years, I think I have brainwashed myself. Whenever I want to type “HP” as in Hewlett-Packard, I inadvertently type “HPB”. When typing the name of a person, “Heath”, I always type “Health” instead. There! I did it again!!!
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Love the idea… it’s an effective use of graffiti. On a related note, I’ve been having my participants tag themselves as a point in case for my Web 2.0 Workshops. The idea was replicated by librarians and by the La-Salle design school in Shanghai. Take a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/inju/sets/72157594325390181/