Archive for July, 2007

7 Deadly Sins of Digital

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Poke guy tears apart Tamagotchis, Screensavers, Interfaces that look like the tops of desks or tables et al.

7 Deadly Sins of Digital

Web Windows spamming

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

A UK-based company called Web Windows has spammed me a few times. Here’s the email I received:

If [Name removed]’s budgets are limited and you’re looking for extra traffic to the site I’ve got a last-minute ad in the The Independent on Sunday’s Review Magazine which is going at the snip of a rate – just £245.

This gets you a colour single panel ad in front of a readership of 644,000.

Unfortunately for me, we are down on staff and deadlines are looming for our 12th August issue, hence the major price drop. To find out more media information click here.

As we are approaching our copy deadline the page must be sent no later than Friday at 12.30pm.

There is lots more information on our website www.webwindows.co.uk

If you have not tried out advertising in the colour weekend press, now would be a perfect time to test the media at an extraordinarily low rate.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Ruth Cowley
ruth@webwindows.co.uk
020 7649 9712
www.webwindows.co.uk

If wonder if The Independent on Sunday is appreciative of their tactics. They even have a “opt out” link on their email which leads to a blind thank you page.

Send them some spam back: info@webwindows.co.uk

Comment Timeout, updated

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

James McKay is back with Comment Timeout 2.0, an update to a WordPress plugin I use. He;s gone for a complete rewrite from the ground up with some new features, including: Per-post settings, Extended discussions for popular posts, Send to moderation queue, and Advance warning.

Note: it only works with the WP 2.x branch.

Comment Timeout 2.0

DesignerSlashModel

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

An ironic website for all the design/models in the world:

DesignerSlashModel

Prank War

Monday, July 16th, 2007

The Vimeo Prank War: Streeter Seidell and Amir work for CollegeHumor. One day, Streeter decides to pull an little prank on Amir. Amir then pranks back. Streeter retaliates. Amir dito.

And now, in the fifth battle of the Prank War, Amir gets owned big time.
To be continued …