Author Archives: Arjen Lentz
Burden of Proof – David Mitchell’s Soapbox on Climate Change Denial
Homeopathic leak threatens catastrophe | NewsBiscuit
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/09/09/homeopathic-leak-threatens-catastrophe/
According to homeopathic lore, a potion becomes more potent as it’s diluted further. That makes tossing it down the sink like the ultimate act of evil, doesn’t it?
The Gruen Transfer – The Pitch: Banning All Religion
The Gruen Transfer is an excellent ABC TV program exploring the murky world of advertising. It’s insightful as well as funny.
One of the regular items is “The Pitch” where two ad agencies are commissioned to create a TV ad to “sell the unsellable”. Note that this is satire… past examples included briefs for invading New Zealand, reintroducing child labour, and a parenting licence.
Last week, the two companies had to sell the idea of “banning all religion”. Interestingly, that was also for the first time in four years that several ad agencies declined to participate. They were ok with previous topics like those mentioned above, but not this. Hmm…
Both ads are good, but reckon the second one is a particularly awesome.
As presenter Adam notes: “You and your god may have other views” ;-)
The internet is our social network. | Friendika
Up to a billion people interact with each other every day across millions of websites and communications services. Blogs, email, forums, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Diaspora, Identi.ca, Drupal and more… These can each be used as a limited type of “social network”.
This is really interesting. I’ve written and talked about this issue for a few years now… essentially the hoarding of people and connections, which only benefits those sites (and causes heaps of trouble when they shut down). Really people just want to communicate – so using the APIs at each of the “network hoarders” makes sense. It’s still a pity the hoarders don’t do this themselves, but heck otherwise they wouldn’t be hoarders and their reason for being hoarders is that they have borked business models (I’m being kind there: some have no business model at all).