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Online April Fools gags are mainly just marketing initiatives, but, just like virals, when they deliver the funny - why get your knickers in a cynical twist about it? The main winners were the browsers. Google Chrome and Opera both delivering clever and funny little moments of cocking about.

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"Let's face it - and this is FACT - the internet is primarily about information for most people, but primarily the internet is about porn." Thus spaketh TV's Tina Malone.

Now, I know some of the hippy, free-love-loving, geek-types among you will be dropping your iPhones, choking on your Chai and saying "No way, dude! The 'Nets, like, totally way more than just porn!" But, listen - TV's Tina has spoken - and she has spoken FACT. Using elaborate Socratic discourse, Tina Malone has made an emphatic and irrefutable point about our internet-obsessed (see porn-wracked) society. And she has made it well. God bless Celebrity Big Brother.

Tina goes on to lay the Connect-disconnect debate to rest with a simple "Who the fuck wants to turn on a computer and go 'Oh my friend's really depressed...'?" [Mimes typing like a twat.] "Ring 'em up! Go round! 'Ave some soup!" Finishing with impressive Satrean flourish: "Fucking computer."

Fellow contestants, the likes of Coolio and Mini-Me Vern Troyer, are left to muse upon these reflections. Perhaps mulling over their best philosophical retorts and gambits. Or simply looking at TV's Tina Malone and considering that she is the very living embodiment of Hobbes' humanity: poor, nasty, brutish and short.

Keep th' faith,

Article Dan

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Not sure if this will embed in my blog. Gonna give it a shot anyway.

Excellent guide to the past, present and (a little) future for
multi-platform media projects. I love the emails and sites seeded within
shows, hidden away for fans to find - the key being REWARD for the fans
persistence and zeal. If you set up a site within a show, you gotta make
that site's content outstanding AND credible within the universe which
directed you towards that content. That's the key to take away from this -
make the content WORTHY of your audience. Don't just do it because you think
you should. Do it because you believe in it and because it makes your
product a richer treat to consumers.

Anyway - I bet this is a load of code on the page, so just in case, here's
the link:
http://www.slideshare.net/christydena/the-who-what-when-where-why-and-how-of-crossmedia?src=embed

Article Dan

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Would you look at this: http://12seconds.tv/

Now, I don't want to be a killjoy, the grouch in the bin of 2.0, but surely, surely, SURELY this is a massive waste of bandwidth mascarading as video micro-blogging? Twitter for video? I just have my doubts about this kind of twattery. I mean - browse around the videos. It's like Seesmic but without the conversation. And Seesmic's bad enough as web-waste goes.

This really puts the 0 in web 2.0

OR...

It's excellent. Shortformidablé! 12 seconds of humanity in all it's web-cammed glory. Video Haiku. Peppy picture poetry.

So far, browsing, I have seen some amusing takes on the form - 12 second burps, 12 second songs, 12 second cum shots... No, wait. That wasn't there. Maybe it should be. Is there a rule that says I can't post up 12 seconds of porn? YouPorn condensed. Cut out the boring bits. Boom!

12 seconds. A man can get a lot done in the love department in that time. Just ask my partner.

We've gone from 12 seconds of fuck all to 12 seconds of all fuck. These guys should pay me for this kinda gold.

Keep th' faith.

Dan

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