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Feb 19th
I’m back from visiting Mickey, Donald, Pluto, et al.
Until I can muster up a real blog posting… check this out. You’ll smile.
(Click to enlarge, and specifically, look under the heading “Viewers Also Bought…”)
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Tuesday’s Digital Finds
Feb 3rd
To start off with, my buddy Tim Stone at C95 was blasting this in his office the other day while working on music logs.
The group is Justice. The album is called Cross. Yes… it’s 4 years old. Far be it for me to pretend like I’m discovering it… but it sounded awesome. The whole album is solid and I am now officially a fan.
Also on the interwebs, a TV show I used to watch when I was much younger (oh… in my early 20s) has now found a new life online. MTV’s Undressed was kitschy to some, sleazy to others, and just plain fun for folks like me. The story lines are hilarious… the acting is so-so… and the show is solid. One episode per week is now being posted at UndressedTV.com.
Finally, as you might have gathered by now I’m a huge fan of Twitter. Well, now you can track my stats (and those of others) — seeing just how often we tweet, and what we’re tweeting about. Check it…
That is all.
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PepSuber
Feb 1st
Brilliant marketing ploy by Pepsi to place these spots during SNL! At first, I thought NBC had a network issue and I had missed something… so I rewound the PVR and checked it again. Very impressed.
This, my TV-commercial-producing friends, is how you survive the PVR.
Not once was there a beauty shot of a product. Not once was there a slogan plastered on the screen. Not once was there an address or a telephone number.
Man… I’m kinda craving a Pepsi right now…
Good night and good luck.
Nov 13th
I’m a huge fan of Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
Well, the fine folks over at 23/6 — one of the web’s finest humour sites — have managed to condense the KO experience in to 60 seconds… enjoy!
Notes from all over…
Nov 12th
The new album from The Killers – “Day and Age” – drops November 24th. The two cuts I’ve heard from it so far — Human and Spaceman — are fantastic. Spaceman especially. For some reason, The Killers manage to create a sound that sends my head back to when I was little — you know, wearing pajamas, eating cereal, and watching Saturday morning cartoons cross-legged in the living room. Simpler times…
I’ve been watching much more TV in the last few days of holidays than I have in a long time. In the process, I’m playing catch-up on some things. Like — for example — this (which is awesome.)
With Christmas not far away now, TV is starting fill up with commericals for the season. And, in an effort to stand out from the crowd, advertisers are really working overtime to find obscure Christmas-like songs to provide the soundtrack for the season of shopping. My favourite use of music right now is on the Sears commercials — where the song of choice is Badly Drawn Boy’s Donna and Blitzen. Very very cool.
Finally, Engadget/TUAW is reporting this morning that iPhone 2.2 firmware will start being available for download on November 21st. The two big additions for me will be the addition of Street View to Google Maps (damn Google vans… drive through Canada once in a while!), and the ability to turn off auto-correct (a good thing when you’re trying to talk in a corporate language and not in normal people words.)
On that note… I’m off to play some Blockles. You should too.
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Here’s your number.
Nov 11th
Have you been to CANOE.ca (the Sun Media online portal) lately?
If you have… then you’ll know what I’m talking about.
While I have no problems with Countdowns or Top Ten Lists… the folks over at CANOE seem to have this strange affection for numbered lists. Yep… numbers upon numbers upon numbers.
Today’s front page alone shows how much they love their numbers…
“10 most famous battlefields”
“10 places famous for death”
“10 worst hells on earth”
“8 trips that make you smarter”
“5 ways to deal with a bad boss”
“6 ways to turn off employers”
“7 things employers should do”
“9 tips to avoid the axe”
“5 true nightmare dates”
“11 who play by their own rules”
“22 biggest crises in Canadian history”
Does any of this really matter? Does Quebecor have so many experts in their operation that they’re bursting at the seams with knowledge and feel compelled to order what they know in to numbered lists?
Now, I take this shot at CANOE in a loving way. Out of all the national online portals, it is my favourite. Canada.com is incredibly difficult to navigate… CBC.ca is a hodge-podge mess… The Globe and Mail is a solid online newspaper, but it doesn’t offer the sticky gooey entertainment goodness of the Sun papers.
Using poorly created content (which I’m guessing is imported from somewhere else) to fill space is just wrong. And it takes away from my enjoyment of the CANOE.
Why use numbered lists to fill space when you could be creating more rich and useful content?
Here’s hoping someone over there will reconsider…
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“Good night and good luck…”
Nov 2nd
The indignation! The verbosity! The innocence of his Miss Precious Perfect!
Ben Affleck as K.O. Take it away…
As an Olbermann fan, I say… fab-u-lous.
Quebec radio hosts prank call Sarah Palin
Nov 1st
It’s all over the web… but in case you haven’t heard it yet…