Archive for the ‘funny’ Category

Conference invitations: the videos

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Picnic shot this very interesting video to promote Amsterdam and the conference in 2006.

Fascinating. I wonder what would happen to my sponsoring budget if I was using that kind of tactics here in Switzerland. And Guido Van Nispen (PicNic board) just told me over skype that “this year we will be pushing it more of course”. Can’t wait.

Related: the Lobby video invitation, a super exclusive conference trying to eat TED’s pie.

Bruce Sterling on Twitter

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

found in yesterday’s edition of the International Herald Tribune.

“Using Twitter for literate communication is about as likely as firing up a CB radio and hearing some guy recite ‘The Iliad’ “

Way to go Bruce !

CNN’s editorial priorities

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Blue angels, baseball and box office above the French elections, why not. But “Armed former Miss America stops thieves Video”?!?

It’s miss America 1944 for god’s sake!

As long tail as it gets

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

I posted some pictures from my trip in Asia (Korea pictures are coming) on Flickr, and today I have this in my RSS reader:

niagarekoja has posted a comment:

Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Bus & Coach, Thailand., and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.

A bus and the traces of songkran

“Bus & Coach, Thailand”, now that’s what I call serious long tailing.

Rosetta stone

Friday, July 29th, 2005

I have no idea of what you said but I really thank you for the link ;-)

power what?

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

When preparing my presentation yesterday PowerPoint failed to detect I was writing in english (default setting is swiss french) and came up with interesting suggestions for powerful.

The bright side of the force is slowly taking over.

cartoons

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

Met (= had a 10 seconds chat with at the coffee table) this guy who’s making some quite nice cartoons. Nice concept: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”