Bookmarks for 23 Apr 2009
- The Food Section: The New York Times Ate My Slogan
…which gave me pause for thought on the slogan used by this blog. (legal nytimes slogans ) - Why did Google create News Timeline and not newspapers? | Media | guardian.co.uk
Good article from Kevin Anderson giving some context around Google News Timeline. And he asks why this didn't come from a newspaper. (google newspapers google_news_timeline ) - tomlinson.jpg (JPEG Image, 800×408 pixels)
An excellent spoof of the recent Metropolitan Police paranoia promotion campaign. (humour police terrorism advertising system:filetype:jpg system:media:image ) - McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview.
"Course Description [...] As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age [...] Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness. All without the restraints of writing in complete sentences." (writing humour reading twitter ) - Sprint Infographic Advertisement II: What's Happening "Now"
Nice add from Sprint on "what's happening now"… also featuring the forthcoming Palm Pre. (palm_pre advert infographics )