Blobbing...Another funny you tube vid

This is so funny. I don't want this to just become a blog about the best of You Tube but it is hella funny. Feel the pain as she back slaps the water. Ouch!

Paddys Revenge Irish Jig

When You Tube goes viral.

What counts as viral though? Radio1 seems to have an obsession with making funny songs get to the top of the charts or You Tube vids getting loads of plays. It's only viral if it spreads by virtual word of mouth isn't it?

Or maybe it is viral. If it wasn't good then I wouldn't have heard about it to pass it on to the minions. Anyway, its funny the first 100 times Vernon Kay mentions it on Radio1 but then the humour wears thin and the whole thing begins to appear less and less 'ad hoc' and more and more set up.

Look for yourselves

Has Barack Obama Slipped Myspace or Google A Few $$ ?

For years and years (well since 2006 so a year and a year really), I have been trying to figure out how to get one's Myspace page to the top of the Google rankings. Think about it. If I could get my band's page to appear when ever anyone types in the search query 'myspace' i'd get hundreds of page views a day.

A couple of weeks ago I noticed that Lilly Allen came up particularly high in the Google rankings when 'Myspace' was typed in. This I can understand as she was made famous by Myspace (so the legend goes) and so her large following, length of time on the social networking site, blog history etc etc all count towards a raised ranking.

Imagine my surprise then, when I type in 'Myspace' to Google and Barack Obama, 46, appears as number two in the list. How has this happened? What did he do? In my humble and admittedly slightly bitter opinion this is a travesty. Social networking is about the people. It's about us small people, connecting to make something bigger. Facebook groups protesting against oil prices, Myspace fans building up bands to catch the attention of record companies.

This is why I was so annoyed to see the future president (perhaps) of the USA have his name appear on my screen when I all I wanted was to listen to a local band.

Barack, I'm sure you're a nice chap and you have some fine policies but please don't appear on my screen with your below the line, subliminal advertising.

thank you

Wrapmail...seems like a good idea?

According to About.com over 2.3 billion email messages are sent every day. Thats 2 million emails a second which is a fair few clicks on the send button.

An industrious and clever type in California's silicon valley has created WrapMail. This ingenious device effectively 'wraps' any outbound email with information about the sender's company. A bit like popping a brochure in to an envelope when you send a letter or quote off by snail mail.

Click thoughs can then be measured in real time and you are able to monitor which ads have been most effective.



Plus points: Free advertising, viral every time email is forwarded, good click through stats,

Bad points: Unsolicited ads, may appear slightly spammy and put off potential customers.

See what others think at techcrunch

Experiment: Google Image Search

I have an experiment...it occured to me that when searching Google Images for a photo or picture, I then click through to the site from which the image originates. The way I decide which picture to click on if there are several options is by choosing the one with the best pixel size.

So, if I put lots of high resolution photo's in this blog entry, I should see a rise in visitor numbers. Hopefully they (you if this has worked) will find this interesting.

Here goes: (P.s don't hate me, blogging purists its just an experiment!)

Wot! Judge Jules is Rick Steins Nephew??

Totally unrelated to anything but I just saw a video where Judge Jules says that Rick Stein is his uncle. How completely and utterly random.

Apparantly the Judge worked in Rick's seaside restaurant for a summer, hated it and they fell out for a long while.

Have a look here

Failure to commit Facebook suicide

The walls are closing in, the pressure's getting too much...Get me out of here! Facebook's just a website, right? I've closed down e-mail addresses and changed my phone number before so how hard can it be to unregister from a social networking site.

IMPOSSIBLE! Thats what it is. Just like my send phobia (constant reading emails over and over again before sending), I couldn't bring myself to do it. The only people I have any real contact with on Facebook are my 'real life' friends anyway so who cares about the others. It's more than that through. It is a name that has become so intrinsically linked to daily life that to not have a Facebook account would be like not having a head. Well not quite but you get the idea.

We go and watch a band and where do we look and laugh at the photos the next day? Facebook. Arranging a Stag Do? Send the invites out on Facebook. Without Facebook I would not be able to air my innermost thoughts and feelings concerning what I had for dinner via my status page.

Verdict: I will keep my Facebook to continue it's use as a social tool and calendar but I willl try to avoid plunging in to the deep depths of Facebookism that involves staring for hours at photos of people you don't know doing things you'd never do with people that you only vaguely know.

Right i'm off to check my Facebook.....doh!