All posts tagged geekery

London 2012: NBC values bronze above gold

By | 09/08/2012 | Media | 1 Comment
McDonalds' London 2012 Olympics questionable medal count

Via Instagram – daibaker: How NBC judges the medal table, look who’s on top

Is bronze worth more than gold? US “news” channel NBC thinks so.

In every single London 2012 Olympics table, at least in the right-thinking world, the stats currently look like this:

olympic medals table 2012 - Google Search

Because that’s the order a descending order of medals should go in.

But not according to America’s commercial broadcasting television network NBC, who not only value bronze medals above gold, but for No Reason Whatsoever decide to accompany a London 2012 Olympics graphic with the logo of farcical food purveyors and nutritional clowns McDonalds.

Hats off.

(“Official restaurant.” That will never not be funny, either)

 

Modern social media marketing. Easy, right?

By | 22/05/2012 | Social media | No comments

This social media infographic by Buddy Media shows just how complicated the SM landscape is getting. Click for larger, although it won’t get any simpler.

The complicated social media landscape today

OK, here’s a competition. There’s one glaring omission… Can you spot who’s not on there?

PS, this post is a response, in part, to my favourite Facebook find of last week:

social media is easy jimboeth

Yep, it’s a piece of cake.

The Future of Marketing… is Journalists coz we write good!

By | 21/05/2012 | Social media | No comments

Social Media  - Journalists and Public Relations Professionals are poised to be amazing content creators in the new social media world. Journalists are probably the best content creators when it comes to social media because they can craft compelling content and understand what is newsworthy. Reuters released Social Pulse earlier this year creating a tool for journalists to monitor company chatter. Journalists make excellent bloggers and have the ability to create tight, focused content on a deadline. Did I mention editing? Journalists are also extremely skilled at editing, turning around tweets, blog posts and other types of digital content. Public Relations professionals are also poised to be experts in the social media world — they, too understand what is newsworthy, how to be concise, write for reports and how to attract attention.

via The Future of Marketing | Social Media Today.

The Human Centitwit: 1-10 – First Sequence

By | 05/03/2012 | Social media, The Human Centitwit | 2 Comments

What is The Human Centitwit?

The Human Centitwit is my attempt to do my own version of the Independent’s Twitter 100.
Read the backstory here.

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Twitter 100 – Complete List (2012)

By | 01/03/2012 | Social media, The Human Centitwit | 1 Comment

Today the Independent published its Twitter 100: Britain’s titans of the Twittersphere. Here’s the full at-a-glance list (my own list coming soon!):

1. Richard Branson, Tycoon
2=. Sarah Brown, Campaigner
2=. Alan Carr, Broadcaster
4=. Ricky Gervais, Actor and comedian
4=. Rob Brydon, Actor and comedian
4=. Chris Moyles, Broadcaster
4=. Jamie Oliver, Chef
8. Eddie Izzard, Actor, Comedian
9. Derren Brown, Illusionist
10. Jack Wilshere, Footballer
10=. James Corden, Actor
10=. Stephen Fry, Actor, Comedian
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Battle of the search engines: Google vs Bing vs Yahoo!

By | 11/10/2011 | Social media | No comments

Check out this link (click image after the jump for larger), via Reddit. It shows the search results for the Big Three search engines: Google, Bing and Yahoo!, when the string entered is “train movie where the guy keeps waking up in some one elses body [sic]“.  Read more…

Tailored Follow Friday – #TFF – The art of the dynamic duo

By | 08/07/2011 | Social media | No comments
tailored follow friday

I sumbled across this new FastFollowFriday tool today, which aims to take the “hassle” out of #FFs, and it certainly speeds up the process in a convenient way, but it doesn’t address why FollowFriday has become such a hassle.  Read more…

Follow me, follow you … A-ha?

By | 19/10/2010 | Social media | 2 Comments
Follow Me, Follow You?

Through a combination of @catherinegee and @fieldproducer (both of whom I follow), I stumbled upon this today by Max Atkinson:  Read more…

Zebra diary #001

By | 06/10/2010 | Roller derby | 1 Comment
Photo taken by James Anthony at Block Party

Saturday, 17 July 2010

It had been, as have most days in this foul year of two thousand and ten, a Bad Day. Numb. And what wasn’t numb was afraid. Read more…

Derby equipment list

By | 27/09/2010 | Roller derby | 1 Comment
UK Allstars v London Rollergirls

This post exists (or begins) partly as a reminder for my sieve-like memory, and partly for information purposes. Thought it might be interesting to track how my equipment changes as I improve as a skater and become more serious about the sport.

It has now been updated several times, and I am adding reviews of my equipment based on experience. If something’s stricken out, it means I no longer own/use it. Anything else is used regularly or as and when needed. It’s turning into quite a beast of a post, but it won’t all be relevant to everyone so skip around. Once it gets too cumbersome, there’ll be a linked contents below this blurb.

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