http://www.facade.fi HENRI WEIJO* Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:44:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From CAD: So you may have heard about the global Playstation 3 meltdown (or 'ApocalyPS3') earlier this week when a small error in the system's internal clock as it relates (I assume) to leap years rendered many systems unplayable for a whopping 24 hours. I imagine I don't need to tell you, ... http://www.facade.fi/2010/03/cultural-learnings-from-the-apocalyps3/ Via Marketing News What are you supposed to do when Forbes ranks your city as the most miserable in America? Rally city supporters and create a tongue-in-cheek marketing campaign. That's what Positively Cleveland, the Ohio city's convention and visitors bureau, has done after Forbes proclaimed the city as the country's most miserable ... http://www.facade.fi/2010/02/meaning-management-in-cleveland/ Just a quickie today, via Web Jungle: The sixth and supposedly last season started yesterday in the US (the parts are available in Germany always one day later), however in the last couple of days / weeks a few marketing gigs have already taken place. Such as this one: you can ... http://www.facade.fi/2010/02/lost-and-hyperreal-travel/ Continuing on a theme I wrote about earlier regarding t-shirts that raid pop culture with savvy and disregard to copyright. What intrigued me about the t-shirts was how they they went around copyright laws by referencing bits about movies that were juuuuuuuust out of copyright, sort of speak. I also ... http://www.facade.fi/2010/02/more-on-pop-culture-commerce/ This was pretty neat. The year in films, edited into a 7 minute trailer-like story as if they were from the same film. 342 films in all. Via /Film, again. This kind of ultra-condensed video editing is something that I've seen pop up every now and then. It relies heavily on the ... http://www.facade.fi/2009/12/the-year-in-films-in-7-minutes/ While companies are still somewhat figuring out what to do with social media, one of the most immediate benefits that companies have recognized has been Twitter's value in customer service. Customers are usually notoriously bad at giving feedback, so services like Twitter are very valuable for companies wishing to understand ... http://www.facade.fi/2009/12/social-media-and-the-opportunities-for-qualitative-consumer-research/ The cultural "plight" of the contemporary male in an age of contradicting male roles is one of the most powerful cultural tensions around today, and it has been written about extensively (even I am guilty). It's a powerful source for brands and other cultural texts to play with cultural fantasies ... http://www.facade.fi/2009/11/soothing-the-tensions-of-being-male/ This made me laugh and think: It's a mashup between Star Wars and a news clip that made the rounds a few years ago. It wasn't the most popular of YouTube clips, but apparently popular enough that it inspired some people to mash it up with something more familiar. I'd ... http://www.facade.fi/2009/11/pushing-the-boundaries-of-cultural-obscurity/ Found this among my drafts. Apparently, I had forgotten to publish it. I had intended to publish this on April Fools. Scott Brown on Wired: "Humor is the Lingua Franca of the Internet". Because "funny" is becoming a language unto itself, the lingua franca of the wired world. You can't update your ... http://www.facade.fi/2009/10/humor-is-the-lingua-franca-of-the-internet/ Kanye West has been under fire a lot lately. First South Park made fun of his out-of-control ego in an episode which West said hurt his feelings, but was also a wake-up call and he promised to deflate his ego a bit. Not too long ago, his outbursts at ... http://www.facade.fi/2009/10/kanye-west-spike-jonze-and-contemporary-meaning-management/