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What is social media for?

Written by monkey. Posted on February 9, 2012. Filed under Social Media. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
Social Media Explained What is Social Media For

What is social media for? Connecting? Linking? Meeting? Sharing? Finding? Networking? Expressing? Belonging? Absolute donuts.

There are billboards in faraway places…

Written by monkey. Posted on February 7, 2012. Filed under Art, Outdoor advertising. Tagged , . No comments.
there are wooden houses on land in faraway countries billboard poetry

A picture tells a thousand words. A billboard should make you buy something. But these billboards – stolen from advertisers by a Robin Hood of moral guidance – tell words worth many thousands more without the aid of any pictures. They are the work of … Read More →

Tiger bread? You’re having a giraffe!

Written by monkey. Posted on January 26, 2012. Filed under Customer service, PR, Retail. Tagged . No comments.
Lily's letter to Sainsburys re tiger bread

Chris King deserves a pay rise. And owes the Sainsbury’s PR department a big apology. This example of five star customer service speaks for itself (click images to enlarge!) And Lily Robinson aged 3½ is right. Why is tiger bread called tiger bread?! Giraffe bread makes much … Read More →

Darn those pesky sites that hide their content!

Written by monkey. Posted on January 24, 2012. Filed under Search engines. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
ads versus content, new google page layout change

You can’t hide forever. You song lyric sites that fund your free service with myriad ads for babes and buttock enhancers. You pesky download sites (freeware software only I assure you) who send me via 18,459 dodgy looking links just to get the latest version … Read More →

Pinterest

Written by monkey. Posted on January 20, 2012. Filed under Apps, Online tools, Social Media. Tagged , . No comments.
pinterest pinning

Social media is responsible for all sorts of neologisms, portmanteaus and acronyms. Poking, tweeple and RT being just three. As well as liking, @replying and tumbling, we can now ‘pin’. And of all the social media platforms, Pinterest is one of the most useful. Simple … Read More →

Desk Tidy Top Nav

Written by monkey. Posted on January 19, 2012. Filed under design. Tagged . No comments.
The New Yorker theme by Pixel Union, a compartmentalised desk tidy of a top nav

Recently stumbled across Tumblr. It’s appealing, especially when I struggle to maintain this blog. It’s a happy medium between the succinctness and immediacy of Twitter, but the richness and flexibility of WordPress. And it has great themes too. Like this from Pixel Union. It’s the … Read More →

Wikipedia Blackout

Written by monkey. Posted on January 18, 2012. Filed under Blogs and blogging, Technology. No comments.
wikipedia blackout

This is Wikipedia today. The modern world’s most accessible knowledge base is protesting against controversial Stop Online Piracy Act tabled in the US of A. Congress have rightly been lobbied to do something about piracy online, but the SOPA legislation has bee described as too … Read More →

Bigger Trees Near Warter

Written by monkey. Posted on September 30, 2011. Filed under Art, Photography. Tagged . No comments.
Bigger Tress Near Warter David Hockney

Ou Peinture Sur Le Motif Pour Le Nouvel Age Post-Photographique In the digital age we tend to spend our lives looking at big things on little screens. Perhaps we sometimes lose our sense of perspective? But it’s digital technology (on small screens) that’s allowed David … Read More →

The Madness of BetFairPoker

Written by monkey. Posted on July 27, 2011. Filed under Brand awareness, Social Media. Tagged , , , . No comments.
Bet Fair Pokers twitter love affair Dallas

Recently it seems the world has been going mad. It was always a pretty wacky world really (real life is always weirder than fiction of course). But lately everything just seems more surreal than normal. For instance, NASA have been given jurisdiction over the Scottish Premier League television rights. NASA?! … Read More →

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