I’ll be honest, not a whole lot of what we do on a day to day basis qualifies as work according to most people’s definition of the term. Hours spent trawling through websites, blogs, tweets and videos is gruelling.
You gotta kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince. At least that’s what Barry keeps telling me. I just avert eye contact, don’t reply and pray furiously he’s not gonna tell me about the rest of his Friday night. But he has a point.
Facebook is weird
Late last night, comfortably tucked into my bed, Ninja Turtle PJ’s and hot cup of cocoa in tow, I was disturbed by the shrill tone of my Blackberry announcing a Facebook message had arrived. As it turned out, some helpful soul (who I am “friends” with apparently) was kindly letting me know that my services were desperately required. You see, if I joined the “If one million people join this group I bet we can save the Polar Bears from global warming” group, I could in fact end global warming. I joined obviously, as who am I to fuck with a Polar Bear’s right to sit down every once and a while. After forwarding the invitation to Al Gore, and feeling pretty good about myself, I set about updating my Facebook status. One minute became ten. Beads of sweat formed on my brow, and my cocoa became strangely bitter. There was no avoiding the obvious. I was in the grips of Status Writers Block. (more…)
MY good friend Webslave Dave sent us this link to an FWA site of the day called Incredibox. Lots of time wasting potential here. Use a bunch of scruffy looking Frenchmen to create your own doo wop beatboxing musical supergroup.
Enjoy.
The WCT is into it’s 6th stop and it’s the Hurley Pro at Trestles, in California. Like all the other major surf brands that sponsor WCT events they have a live feed so that millions of surf fans around the world can follow the action in real time. They’re also providing live links and info updates via Twitter. This is all fairly standard. But they’ve also got something new and cool. (more…)
I found an interesting article through the people at Haveyouheard, a South African WOM agency. Through their blog I checked out a cool presentation on Slideshare called What the F@$& is Social Media?, watched a youtube video describing Social Media in Plain English and found Paul Marsden’s blog post listing 10 companies that are doing a great job using social media to improve their business. And now I get to share it with you, whoever you are.
All started through a link in their e-newsletter. The interned is awesome.
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I’ve frequently had the fortune of seeing dolphins swim past while surfing and I am equally fortunate in that I haven’t ever seen one of those less welcome yet equally hyped sea creatures: the Shark. Until earlier this week. And then I practically sharted in my wetsuit. Which is very similar to an experience I had today with my cellular network provider. (more…)
Not to be tried stoned or drunk
It sounds like an April Fool’s joke. For the first time in nearly 40 years, a nation that has historically driven on the right hand side of the road has implemented a nation-wide campaign to switch drivers onto the left hand side. Sound simple? Not so much. (more…)