Low-brow news for high-brow people:
And send one dollar to Happy Dude… The voice of Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, has recorded a robocall voice message as the character to promote a Scientology event. Not that it’s news that Cartwright is a clam, but Fox are notoriously tight about the use of their intellectual property — in [...]
Team Crikey filter through the news and web for the day:
Sex and the GFC. Always focused the cutting edge issues, this morning, the rabbits in the Crikey newsroom were speculating on how the global financial crisis may have hit brothels. Are people cutting back on a service they can get free — or at least [...]
Our favourite bits of the web for today:
Q&A with McCain’s blogger. The Columbia Journalism Review has a candid interview with Michael Goldfarb, John McCain’s “deputy communications director-cum-media bodyguard” and official blogger.
It was brutal work, but it’s hard to say no to a presidential campaign. Plus it was something I was good at. I was a [...]
Monday madness:
The 10 websites for 2009. PC World predict the sites that will take off this year, including Qik, Boxee, TripIt, Loopt and a bunch of others with the kind of stupid spelling that has become de rigeur for web 2.0. Crikee? Crik-e? Crikii?
Working the coffee shops. In America, some lucky people get to use [...]
The week in trash:
Celebrities aging disgracefully. Harsh but true: Popcrunch look at 20 celebs who haven’t aged well.
Hot nights in Paris: less common than once thought. Paris Hilton claims she’s only slept with “a couple” of men. Hmmm. That means 50% of the people she’s shagged are Robert “Millsy” Mills. Ew.
The Razzies. Nominations for this [...]
Things we’re enjoying today:
Buy newspaper stocks. Who’d invest in a dying industry like newspapers? Harper’s publisher John R. MacArthur would, because, he argues, ads on the Internet will never be as pervasive as printed ones, and advertisers will realise this. And because he’s a print publisher.
Midget stunt a winner. Today’s PR ploy of the day [...]
Happy Obama Day — hope, change, history, etc. Here are some of our favourite Inauguration-related things for today:
Inaugural tech. Wired look at how technology has been utilised in presidential inaugurations throughout history.
Obamicon. Upload a photo of yourself and make your own version of the Obama Hope poster at Paste Magazine’s Obamicon.Me
Whitehouse.gov before and after. The [...]
The Crikey team’s pick of the web for today:
Use your noggin’. Could some experiments correlating brain regions to feelings be over-exaggerating the links? asks New Scientist.
Pashler’s team say that in most of the studies, which linked brain regions to feelings including social rejection, neuroticism and jealousy, researchers interpreted their data using a method that inflates [...]
There was once a time when the worst thing that could happen to a bad product or advertising campaign was that it wouldn’t appeal to anyone and fade into obscurity. Unfortunately for businesses and PR people, since the Internet came to town, those days are well and truly over.
These days, the Internet has developed into [...]
Our favourite bits and pieces for Monday:
Frost on Frost/Nixon. Have you seen Frost/Nixon yet? You ought to, as it’s wonderful. The Times has an interview with the real David Frost on the film’s accuracy and what the real Nixon was like.
A story without words. A charming story about a young girl’s prosthetic ear, told in [...]
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