As I am sitting here putting the final touches on a seminar on business blogging, I caught this “magic media moment” on the news: “an unscripted and unleashed punter giving some big wig in a suit a large slice of his mind on the state of Sydney trains.”

It was a classic moment. One moment there’s the “big wig” spewing the usual PR-contrived rhetoric about …

This was painting on hoardings around a shop under renovations in Singapore. It took a second to process - the first character is “cow” in Chinese. But the sign uses the sound of that character in combination with the second word to communicate the message.

Cow in Mandarin is pronounced “neu”.

Clever huh?!

Agonising over a tagline for your business? Have a look at these professional results.

And I do recommend following the link to 37signals.

Thanks to Stil.

The advertising agency who came up with this logo for the Office of Government Commerce in the UK clearly did not try and see things from different angles:

Read the full article in The Telegraph.

Thanks to Greg for spotting this.

I am sure many of you have already seen this picture - it’s been floating around the email circuit for a while. I got sent it again recently, and realised what a lovely illustration it is of human nature at work. Whether painting road markings or building a rocket, we are often tempted, and do, take little shortcuts.

Despair Inc.™: An Honest Org Chart on ZDNet.

Well worth a look, and a laugh, and of course a think.

Thanks to Mark Swivel.

John Fortune and John Bird on the subprime hoo-hah:

And here are my thoughts on this:

Business decisions made by a relative few affects the lives of many.
Much irrational emotions and “sentiments” underlie these decisions. These are unquantifiable. And yet much of the overt discussions are still based around tables of numbers. And many know the power of a …

From Dark Roasted Blend.

Spotted on Gizmodo:

Embarrassing mistakes like this could have been easily avoided had there been some level of diverse/alternate/wider/real-world thinking amongst those involved in the product development.

I came across this website which really how not to do a first contact experience on the web.

Here’s the engagement process:

1

When I first arrived, there was a blank area in the middle of the page. So I started reading the text on the right.

2

Suddenly this Flash element appeared, and pushed the text off to the right. How rude!

Now I couldn’t read …