A Better Course

"This poster campaign seeks to signal the changes on the way by apologising for various perceived sins, including complacency, predictability and the afore-mentioned negativity. None of the posters mention the newspaper by name, but simply carry its Eros logo." — I'd thought there was going to be a twist to these posters, but even then I found them quite startling, for want of a less dramatic word. They are even more so given they are, really, just saying sorry.

"Fans of artists similar to your band should be fans of your band, right? Last.fm Fan Finder helps find users who are listening to artists similar to your band, but aren't listening to you." - a nice way of looking at a "backwards" recommendation system.

Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, "You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

There’s also going to be a button inside his paw, which will rebase the scale to the current value of the market - so squeezing his paw will switch the LEDs back to yellow, and then they’ll change colour the next time the market changes.

The whole Academy Awards palaver must be the most long-winded method of disseminating a tiny amount of information that has ever been devised. Staying up to watch them is about as efficient a way of finding out the results as building a time machine, travelling back to 1939, and then living there for six years, would be of discovering the outcome of the Second World War.

"I knew how Aronofsky was planning to work it in to the story but seeing it done was completely different. The way [Rourke] looked when he asked D'Leo to play, the whole back and forth about COD4, it really gave the feeling that Randy was living in a world that outgrew him" –interesting article about the game that featured in "The Wrestler"'s saddest scene

"It positions Gordon Brown as some kind of sinister interloper in the inheritance of the child - genes from Mummy, genes from Daddy, random bad stuff from WHO IS THIS MAN? What has he to do with the FAMILY UNIT (which is two-parent and closely biologically related)? Is Brown some form of intruder, inserting his loathsome inheritance into the otherwise closed system? Yes! Into homes, into the delivery ward, into the very genetic make-up of your child. (The Conservatives wouldn't ever do that.) Hints of Dad being a cuckold? Also, possibly, of the unnaturalness of the inheritance - nose, eyes, debt - it makes the poor kid sound a bit cyborg."

Hormel's canned foods "are really poised to shine in this kind of environment," said Edward Jones analyst Matt Arnold, since they are "very affordable meal alternatives." — I love the ambiguity as to whether they are a substitute to another, more expensive meal or an alternative to something that could be considered a meal at all.

“Last weekend, we decided to do an experiment,” he says, referring to this past weekend’s Left 4 Dead sale, which brought the game down to $24.99 through Steam – sales rose 3000 percent, and revenue far eclipsed the game’s sales during its launch window.

How do you say Vimeo in French? Google Translate thinks it is pronounced “YouTube.” It is translating the English sentence “videos on Vimeo” into “des videos sur YouTube” when prompted to translate from English to French. When you try to translate Vimeo alone (not in a sentence), the French translation results in “Vimeo.” But in a sentence, Google translates Vimeo into “YouTube.”

Search the bios of Robert Scoble's 56,838 Twitter followers an index of the bios of Twitter users, and you'll find:
• 4,273 Internet marketers
• 1,652 social media marketers
• 513 social media consultants
• 272 social media strategists
• 180 social media experts
• 98 social media gurus
• 58 Internet marketing gurus
How many of them have actually created a successful campaign for clients using social media tools? I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find half a dozen with real track records.

If a Hermès bag were priced temporarily at $200 instead of $5,000, the whole meaning of the brand would shift radically. Even nonluxury businesses - pizza and gasoline, say - face the same risk: Competing on price could define you as a commodity.