I'm presenting this afternoon at the Media Ecology Conference, on intersections between art and advertising. I'll be using the BAC as a jumping off point for my discussion.
This is my first conference without official academic ties, which will be interesting. Anyway, it'll be exciting to see Liz, Alex, and Jill in the flesh.
Ok. Now TCBY is sponsoring a low carb diet. It's basically Atkins with ice cream.
Low carb diets work--at least they did for me--BECAUSE THEY ARE SO LIMITED! I think that the introduction of all this low carb junk food may end up killing the low carb craze. 4 net carbs here, 6 there--pretty soon, you lose the benefits of ketosis.
TCBY wants to America to lose 1 million pounds. And they won't say it, but they'd prefer it be 1 million people losing 1 pound, because then they sell more product.
My bet is that people see through it. Only 529 pounds so far--they have a loooooooooooong way to go.
I'm married and super-content, but I've been very interested in social networks lately. The questions asked to create profiles and search criteria tend to follow the "personal ad" paradigm, aiming to create a personal summary. For instance, I'm:
Tall, average weight, blue eyes, brown hair, married, straight, caucasian (white), no children, non-smoking, casual contemporary fashion, non-smoker, non-drug user.
Now, how blah is that? Like a card catalog entry.
Aren't there more novel ways to profile yourself? To me, it would be much more interesting to profile people using brand preferences. Imagine this ad:
Coke, Camel, Old Navy, Dail, Wonderbread, Kraft, Doritos, Hanes seeking a Coke, Camel, Abercrombie & Fitch, Dove, Cheetos, Victoria's Secret for friendship and possible relationship.
Now, THAT'S an ad that gets to the guts.
Can a blogging google bomb beat out other forms of search engine spam?
Find out at Nigritude Ultramarine.
I took me forever to get my dad to where he's comfortable emailing pictures. And it took me forever to get my mom IMing. Hello is one-up the ease of sharing with an image sharing program. Once I get moved in, I want to try it out. It'll be an interesting tool for net.art collaborations, I'll bet.
A sort of serials 2000 for online web registrations, BugMeNot.com gives usernames and passwords of sites that ask for registration. For those who hate registering to read articles, it's a solution. Plus, it incorporates into Firefox, which will most likely give that browser some inroads into the blogging community.
