Archive for December, 2009

New Years Resolutions for 2010

Photo by dcJohn

Photo by dcJohn

Well, New Year’s finally here, and with but a few hours left of this decade, I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my New Year’s Resolutions. Please feel free to disregard them, as they’ll inevitably be abandoned by the time my hangover clears some time next year.

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Happy Christmas

Han and Chewie, watching the snow

Han and Chewie, watching the snow

I didn’t want to do a cheesy Christmas piece (although I had to provide one here), so I’ll just leave you all with this picture of two kittens watching the snow falling.

Happy Christmas, and thanks for reading. I promise I’ll have at least one entry worth reading up before the end of the year!

The Best Paragraph You’ll Read This Year

I know I’ve taken time here to mock people like PETA, the Daily Mail and really bad PR companies, but their crimes against marketing and writing pale in comparison to something I saw this morning.

A piece of copy so confusing, so overwrought and so terrible, that professionals don’t even know what it means.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the greatest paragraph of the year.
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Five Wildly Inaccurate Social Media Predictions for 2010

Photo by MrMatze77

Photo by MrMatze77

The end of a year can’t just be a time for retrospection and reflection. It should also be a time for wild speculation and crystal-ball gazing. Luckily, like Cassandra before me, I have been cursed with the gift of being able to see into the future with 100% accuracy.

So fire up your stock portfolio, get down to the bookies, or just prepare to tell all your friends that “I told you so!” It’s time for five completely accurate Social Media predictions for 2010!

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