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This month’s UK edition of Wired has

Yesterday, as I’m sure I don’t need to point out, saw the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States. We had an event on here at work where we invited clients to watch it, served food & drinks (with an American theme) and gave a couple of presentations on lessons for marketers [...]

Along with minced pies, repeats, The Queen’s Speech and a vague sense of unease the morning after the office party (what I refer to as THE FEAR), Google’s annual Zeitgeist list is fast becoming a Christmas tradition. It’s a list of the phrases that have been searched for the most over the preceding 12 months [...]

Apparently there was a word cloud going round last week showing a word cloud of the Obama site created by Wordle which I’ve written about before – thescrapbook has one which you can see here. As I noticed that 10 Downing Street recently relaunched their site I though I’d see what Wordle had to say [...]

Thank fu*k for that!

I was flicking through TechCrunch a moment ago and noticed that they had also published the Barack/Wassup YouTube ad. The post, by TechCrunch owner Michael Arrington, made no suggestion as to the rights or wrongs of the candidate, but merely suggested that it was a pretty cool video. At which point TechCrunch transformed into the [...]

Remember the Budweiser Wassup ad? The one that very quickly went from amusingly catchy, to iconic to eye-gougingly annoying in a record time? Well, it’s 8 years since the boys sat around screaming WASSSSSSUPPPPPPPPP?!?!? at each other and quite a bit has changed in the USA.This is a nice bit of advertising by, I presume, [...]

Some enterprising young so & so has taken a load of clips of Obama dancing, set them to the musical meme that is Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up and then cut a load of Obama soundbites to have the Democratic candidate singing the lyrics. Well, if nothing else this should at least guarantee [...]