Everyone is trashing these new commercials for Ask.com, but I quite like them. I think this is the kind of humor Crispin was going for with the new Seinfeld commercials, but straight up, Seinfeld and Bill Gates can’t act. After major advertising blunders Ask.com is back up, if only in my own mind.
def. Combining media memes together to form a new memetic piece of media
This is an experimental work where I combine three versions of the song Heartbeats by Jose Gonzales with the advertising meme of the bouncing Sony balls intercut with characters from Halo 3 repeating the same movements.
Will we ever get to a point where we’ll be used to reading media this way?
This EA video is a great example of a mass-media company responding to a User-Generated piece of content in a really smart way. Instead of sweeping this video game glitch under the table they opted to created a whole spot around it. Well done EA and well done Tiger Woods, or should I say Jesus.
Interesting Vancouver is an unconference that I will be helping to hype and maybe even speak at, if I can get my act together. The premise is to hold a super relaxed conference where speakers are invited to speak for 20 minutes or 3 minutes on any topic they’re interested in, passionate about or super knowledgeable about.
It’ll take place on October 24th at the Vancouver Rowing Club and only cost $25. This will be one of those events that will make you proud to live in the cultural mix of Vancouver.
Explanation from main event organizer:
Hope to see you there. More details to follow.
It’s official. I’m adopting all things Twitter. Now that I have some regular contributors to follow I’m starting to see the value of Twitter.
I’ve added Twitter Berry for the BB and Twitter Feeds which automatically feeds my blog posts to my Twitter.
Now you can follow this blog, DailyJim (my photoblog), Corporate Hipster and I Am User Generated (my academic blog) on my Twitter. Activate the mobile notification option on Twitter and you’ll get these updates as text messages.
Is this cross-platforming getting creepy?