From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Just Do It.

What else can you say? If this doesn’t make you at least a little bit motivated to go do something, then maybe you’re a little bit dead inside.

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BooneOakley.com

This is several different levels of awesome happening all at once. BooneOakley.com is an agency website with a URL that redirects to their ‘homepage’ on YouTube. You can explore their ‘website’ by clicking on hand drawn buttons placed throughout the videos, which, of course, lead you through the ‘site’ by linking to more videos. Did [...]

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Dunkin’ does it again

Dunkin’ Donuts just came out with the Dunkin’ Run — a website and iPhone app that will allow you to invite, coordinate, and place coffee orders for you, your friends, and coworkers. Coffee runs will never be the same. Fun idea, useful, nice execution, and creating buzz. Win. Check out the nonembeddable video that I’m [...]

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New Media Music Mashup

What happens when music parody meets the new media marketing matrix? Weird Al sings about Craiglist, of course. (via The Copywriting Maven)

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Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary

Paul Sanchez put these spots together to finance a film he’s working on. I have to say they crack me up. Here’s the deal: We are trying to raise funds with this contest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNke_Xm4n-I This will help build a website and pay for editing footage. To cast a vote all you have to do is [...]

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Iran, Twitter, and Mass Consciousness

Peter Daou had an interesting post on The Huffington Post today. In it, he says: As with any new phenomenon, a wave of curiosity, criticism, mockery, and adulation follows. The Twitter meta wave is cresting. Now, attention is focused on Twitter’s practical applications in the disputed Iranian election and its unique capacity to harness real-time [...]

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Google Chrome Icon Project

Internet Evolution recently fomented discussion on who’s more likely to get hit up with anti-trust charges, Microsoft vs. Google. I maintain that Google is more collaborative, open-source, and inclusive…so that protects it from anit-trust charges. Plus, its hard to be defined a monopoly when you’re offering free products. If nothing else, aren’t Google’s products closer [...]

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ALICE :: Websites Behaving Badly

ALICE is a great program in Oakland that’s doing great things. It promotes Arts and Literacy in Children’s Education. They are having a great event this weekend to promote local arts, food, and culture. There’s nothing I’d want more than to support  something like this. If you couldn’t already tell by my redundant use of [...]

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TRV$ DJ-AM

Interesting idea. TRV$ DJ-AM is giving away a mixtape album download in exchange for a tweet. Nice concept.

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The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien :: Twitter Tracker

Conan started a spot on his new show called Twitter Tracker. The voice over and animation really make it. It’s one of the better knocks on Twitter that I’ve seen. (WARNING: Shameless self plug approaching.) Don’t forget, if you really wanna a Twitter Tracker, check out twitterAppTracker.

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How to Start a Viral Meme in 1 easy lesson

What does this video have to do with digital communications? Everything. People/brands always want people to run to them and their stuff. They see it happen with others, so they copy it in a classic case of monkey-see monkey-do. And then they wonder why they get lukewarm results. Cause it’s not real. And it’s already [...]

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Web Copy Template for Your Clients

One of my homies is trying to organize the wrangling of copy from some of his clients. He couldn’t find a good copy template and asked if he could use mine. I just thought I’d share. Have fun. Change it to suit your needs. I just ask that you leave a link to my blog [...]

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