Webism Today

Haribo, owner of the sweet brand Maoam, find themselves in an interesting PR situation. Simon Simpkins from Pontefract became so annoyed at the ‘lurid’ illustrations on the Maoam wrappers that he wrote to the Daily Mail. The story has been run by the papers and features as “Outrage over sexy Haribo sweet wrappers” on the [...]

Released to YouTube over two months ago LMCDuff08’s Mad Avenue Blues is only now beginning to surface at some of the more ‘traditional’ media sites. The excellent song is a parody of Don McLean‘s ‘American Pie’ and is sung as “The year the media died”. In it the big traditional media owners and buyers succumb [...]

Back in July the newly launched Bing announced a competition. They wanted people have to have a go a putting together a jingle. The prize wasn’t great but it was good enough for many people – an $500 American Express gift cheque. There’s now a winner and rather cleverly from Bing’s marketing team it’s a [...]

John Kovalic is the hugely talented and popular artist and writer behind the gaming phenomena Dork Tower, the comic Doctor Blink Superhero Shrink and Steve Jackson Games’ series Munchkin. Web comics were one of the first thriving internet communities. Long before Facebook or Bebo the internet housed bustling forums where artists, writers and fans discussed [...]

Becky Stern of the CraftZine’s blog found this quirky looking purse. What do you make of it? Refreshingly new, not for you or perhaps even a little off? Quite a few people we’ve showed the picture too thought the design was pretty funky. The commends at CraftZine less welcoming though and commentator Ellen even asked, [...]

As Conner Flynn at SlipperyBrick puts it; It’s about time we start seeing some Jedi action on the Wii. However, it may be Dale Nole’s comment at Destructoid which gets my vote as the most insightful. Gale says; While Nintendo is going out of their way to make the Nintendo Wii peripherals safer and less [...]

(Picture from MedGadget) SteadyMed is an Israeli company with a clever product. Their PatchPump is a little device that acts as a portable drug dispenser. It dispenses the drugs directly into the patient. This is ideal if the patient needs to take the drugs at a very regular intervals (where pill taking can sometimes be [...]

Jon Swift received the following email from Facebook the other day. Hi, Fake accounts are a violation of our Terms of Use.Facebook requires users to provide their real first and lastnames. Impersonating anyone or anything is prohibited.Unfortunately, we will not be able to reactivate this accountfor any reason. This decision is final. Thanks for your [...]

Over at Finance Markets, Kay Murchie has a good write up of some of the broadband issues that Ofcom has been asked to look into. We all know that sometimes the speed of the service doesn’t quite match our expectations but another issue is how long it takes to get the broadband connected in the [...]

MoneySavingExpert has been subject to a DDOS attack. Martin Lewis told the Register that the timing of the attack is “probably not a coincidence“. The Register thought the story had some weight – but how did the blogosphere react? It wasn’t such a big story for the internet community. The original Digg picked up only [...]