links for 2007-07-28
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a “fool’s job is to extol the trivial, trifle with the exalted and parody the common perception of a situation… makes us conscious of the habits we take for granted and rarely question… fool needs to be part actor, poet, philosopher and psychologist.”
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“This series of comedy shorts from production company Channel K follows the adventures of 2 taxi drivers in Manchester. Where to Mate? focuses on Rizwan and Ben, two cabbies who aren’t afraid to tell their passengers what they’re thinking. Videos are 99p”
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“Lookery hopes to bridge the gap between facebook application developers and advertisers. Over time they should be able to offer more complete user demographics for each application; which could actually make the advertising very relevant.”
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“Facebook offers everyone 100% detailed, real-time, shareable, saleable, user registration information for every application and every application user. And, we even know which of the applications users have social connections to each other in order.”
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Mark Cridge, glue: “Traditional agencies just see digital as more ways of delivering the same content…We create time, we don’t buy time. Digital companies understand how to get people to spend time with brands rather than brand broadcast to them.”
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“But my first reaction to the notion of ‘collaborative comedy’ is that it’s a non-starter; comedy, as in any art form, needs a strong, guiding vision - using ‘crowd sourcing’ to generate ideas for shows sounds like it would foster bland, disjointed mush.”
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“There’s a bunch of things that people who are just getting into digital always seem to propose at some point or another. I guess they’re things that are part of the learning process.
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““Where are the Joneses” is my favorite show ever. The script is brilliantly written. I have to watch each episode two or three times to make sure I catch everything. It’s the first sitcom of this quality to be so freely licensed.”
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