I was on the search for an interesting twitter icon for a clients blog, and after coming across a couple that made me smile, i thought that i would blog my findings just incase anyone else shared my icon taste i.e: not cutesy enough to make you want to choke on your own vomit.

The wondrous ifad and it’s entourage of second coming digital mediocrity!

The ipad’s launch was colossal; it literally brought every social network on line to digital masturbatory melt down. I deliberately avoided it all, as I envisioned Steve Jobs sat in a chair beneath a stupidly large screen, like the ultra modern stage production of craps last tape. Tech God Stephen Fry muttering all over twittering about stroking his new ipad as it were someone’s genitals and every proclaimed social media guru pronouncing the ipad as “The biggest thing since…..” well that last big thing last week.

We’d heard the whispers from Apple in – 2008 “Apples new tablet, it’s going to be big Folks”. “2009 It’s coming… the latest in Apples technology” and so it finally happened in 2010 and I for one, feel like a gender queer teen who has just been given bra, I feel confused and just a little deflated.

Due to this and my love of goats, I decided to map out the upside and downside of the new ipad (I’m not even going there on the name) and pit it against some other devices that encompass some, if not all of the functionally that the ipad should have as standard. Oh and I’ve added a domestic goat to give it scope!

Comparing the ipad to a domestic goat

Ok, and before you all go… noooo Apple is wonderful and you must be a PC geek, i own both a PC and Mac and an iphone and i am just a little gutted that Steve Jobs launched such a frigging clanker of a product. I personally will be investing in a goat from the local farm.

Sleep well moomins of the web

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Please save the world from these awful company twitter accounts

Working in social media marketing, I come across a lot of twitter accounts set-up by companies that are – lacking in character – salesy to the point of SPAM – boring – inactive and selfish. The reason for these accounts is mainly down to ignorance of the media, a PR department thinking they know how to handle ‘social media’ or the thought that Stephen Fry is on it, so they should be. Due to this i felt compelled to make a mini list of things that companies should tweet about, and if they stick to these, they will have an account to be proud of.

Singer AKON tells us ‘How not to use his social media tool of choice – Twitter’, with the help of some of his celebrity friends. (PS: spot the incorrect use of your, the Reddit grammar Nazi’s will love it)

GoAnimate.com: the 7 deadly sins of twitter by killerbunnie

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It’s free and fun!

This is a video i put together at the end of last year and forgot about, it features alot of things that i think are important about social media and some stats that i am sure you have seen.

Also on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmdpajQI3wA

Blockchalk is like a cross between a nosey neighbour and twitter. The company’s founders want to enable neighbors to interact with each other while protecting everybody’s privacy. At it’s core, BlockChalk feels a bit like an anonymous, location-based Twitter clone.

BlockChalk describe themselves in the following way;

Got something to say? BlockChalk.
Neighborhood tip? BlockChalk.
Lost kitty? BlockChalk.
Lost croc? Call 911.
Borrow a lawnmower? BlockChalk.
Report a pothole? BlockChalk.
Sell your pot? NOT BlockChalk.
Pub crawl? Absolut BlockChalk.
Bitch about BlockChalk?
We can take it.

BlockChalk just released its native iPhone (iTunes link) today and also offers an app for the Palm Pre and Pixi. Android users can access the service through a mobile website.

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