Admittedly, the headline on this blog post is sensational and a little bit dramatic, but it is true to say that a new Paddy Power campaign failed to win approval from the relevant authorities for airing on TV.
In light of this, Paddy Power has taken to the campaign to that great, big, unregulated, amorphous mass [...]
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The TV ad they don’t want you to see
Darren Davidson - March 9th, 2010Visualising the internet
Darren Davidson - March 8th, 2010The BBC has published a very snazzy, interactive map showing how internet penetration has deepened and spread across the globe between 1988 and 2008.
A simple slider enables you to skip through the years, picking out landmark developments at different intervals. Surprisingly, given its size and dominance today, China’s relationship with the internet didn’t start gaining serious [...]
Twitter outage during Superbowl silences voices
Darren Davidson - February 8th, 2010One of the curious things about Twitter is that the service doesn’t always deliver on what you’d expect from something that is endlessly talked about.
Amid the hype, celebrity endorsements and impressive growth rate (although the steep curve has flat lined of late), it’s sometimes forgotten that the company is essentially still quite small.
According to reports, [...]
Rubber on the radio
Darren Davidson - February 3rd, 2010Rubber Republic was up at the crack of dawn this morning to take part in a live debate about advertising on the 5 live breakfast show with Nicky Campbell and Shelagh Fogarty.
The debate centered around the Conservative Party poster campaign featuring David Cameron and a pledge not to cut NHS funding.
The poster campaign became widely [...]
Jaron Lanier is very very concerned
Darren Davidson - February 2nd, 2010“Jaron Lanier is worried”, says the leaflet to accompany a keynote speech by the philosopher, digital guru and Virtual Reality pioneer at the Royal Society for the Arts.
Actually, having listened to his talk in person last night, a more accurate description of Lanier’s state of mind on this issue is “very, very concerned”.
Concerned about the [...]
My late night encounter with Venus Williams and Google
Darren Davidson - January 25th, 2010While lying in bed last night I was keen to find out the score of Venus Williams’ fourth-round match in the Australian Open (like you do).
I had been watching the match on my laptop. It was a good match in what looked like very hot, uncomfortable conditions. Venus had lost the first set against a [...]
Are trolls bad for our health?
Darren Davidson - January 20th, 2010According to actual scientific evidence, the internet has the power to turn normal people into complete idiots.
These idiots inhabit forums, threads, message boards, blogs and discussion groups posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic comments, with the primary intent of attacking other users, derailing the conversation or provoking an emotional response.
The internet slang terms for these creatures [...]
