• dafont.com
  Lots of great free fonts.
  (tags: font design typography free resources)

• Ad Age Agrees: 2008 Not the Year of Mobile
  Lack of reach. Poor measurement. Complexity. Isolation/lack of integration of mobile. No “hallelujah moment” (a mobile campaign so wildly successful that everyone will want to emulate its success in the medium)
  (tags: mobile web online marketing)

Springleap, a locally based, recently launched site focussed on the design and selling of t-shirts, is running a competition where contestants have been challenged to get themselves to the top of the search engine result pages (SERPs) on a search for “Springleap“.

Not a bad idea from a springleap side of things. I do have an issue though with the “black hat” techniques being used by various participants. And no, not because i think they’re cheating. I think that the prize money has brought out the worst in SEO “trickery”. These guys are just creating more mess, putting up fake blogs that are exactly the types of sites that we all hate. In my opinion spam blogs (splogs) are almost as bad as email spam. So if you hate spam and you’re creating a spam blog, are you not being a little bit of a hypocrite?

I must say that I take a lot of pleasure in flagging springleap splogs as spam.

I’m the proud, long-time owner of 2 of the “Work of Director” series. The first dvd set i got was the work of Michel Gondry, then a bit later, the work of spike jonze. Both pretty great directors. I took the Spike Jonze off the shelf and popped it in the dvd player tonight… which has now resulted in this post:

My favourite Spike Jonze music videos.

In no particular order, here they are:

California - Wax

Chemical brothers - Elektrobank

Drop - The Pharcyde

Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim

Sky’s the limit - The Notorious B.I.G (note - this one needs some bass!)

Here’s the trailer of the Spike Jonze dvd

Next i’ll do michel gondry. his stuff is the best i’ve ever seen..

The lovely Simone Puterman from BizCommunity couldn’t make it today so I managed to get the call up and be the “honourary-substitute-guest-blogger”.

I’ve been supplied with a wifi access voucher, and will be putting down my thoughts on the biz-community blog.

I’ve never really live-blogged anything. I twittered a few events at last week’s Interactive marketing summit though.

Twitter, if you haven’t heard of it already, is what i’d describe as some sort of social-micro-blogging platform where you only get 140 characters to say whatever you want. Think of it as your facebook status message on steroids, where you can follow whoever you want, and track any mention of any keywords. It has turned into a bit of an public chat room, but i think that’s just the natural evolution of these sorts of platforms (especially when it comes to having a voice, and building personal brands).

The tracking aspect is something that I find one of the more important, but lesser known aspects of Twitter. As it’s public facing publishing, it’s pretty important to ensure that you’re tracking mentions of keywords such as your brand name so that you’re able to respond to the “tweeter” (?) as soon as possible. Justin Hartman set up an experiment using Hashtags to track this conference, take a look here.

As Twitter grows (it’s expanded rapidly lately) more an more uses will become apparent, just take a look at Fred Wilson’s post about the “Audience Prompter” to see what I mean.

Right Vincent Maher is up, I’m going to put my BizComm hat on.

Feel free to see what i’m thinking here.

• GI Food List
  A GI and GL index of South African foods.
  (tags: food health diet gi)

• ZA Tech Show
  Big time geeking going on at the ZA Tech Show podcast. “South African tech journos indulging in beer and opinion”.
  Should be well worth a listen. Nice current, and locally (SA) relevant topics.
  (tags: podcast)

• DOTHETEST
  Great campaign..
  (tags: advertising communication psychology)

• YouTube lets developers build their own YouTubes | Technology | Internet | Reuters
  YouTube, Google Inc’s popular video sharing site, is giving away tools that let Web developers tap the underlying database functions of YouTube, in effect allowing users to build their own YouTubes.
  (tags: google video youtube)

• Defining The Online Marketing Suite by Suresh Vittal - Forrester Research
• Twitter is The New Facebook - The Praized Blog » Blog Archive
  Twitter certainly has started to grow noticably in the ZA context. Will be very interesting to see where it goes in the coming months. I do think however that the unreliable service from Twitter will need to be sorted out asap.
  (tags: facebook socialnetworking socialmedia twitter)
• Twitter Fan Wiki / Hashtags
  Adding further depth, meaning, and context to your twitter messages.
  (tags: reference socialmedia tagging twitter tags hashtags)
• Stormhoek Stolen! | GottaQuirk
  Stormhoek’s “demise”, an interesting viewpoint from fellow geeks Quirk.
  (tags: stormhoek wine)
• Digital Photography Tutorials
  Below are tutorials on how to acquire, interpret and process digital photographs using a visually-oriented approach that emphasizes concept over procedure.
  (tags: cheatsheet digital graphics photography howto)
• Mybroadband.co.za: Reviews of Hardware, Software, Gaming, Cellular and Telecoms
  (tags: tech reviews)