Wordle

Wordle is a nifty little site which turns a paragraph of text into a word cloud. Take a blog post you have written and run it through Wordle as a cool way to figure out the social tags you should use for your piece.

This is the wordle for this email:

World of World of Warcraft. Seriously?

Play a game, where you are someone playing a game. I really wasn't sure at first if this was real - I Stumbled on it and had no point of reference. Thankfully it didn't take long, while there are definitely an aweful lot of idiots out there, I hope no one is this stupid.

"The garphics are amazing, they're revolutionary", says one gamer interviewed in this clip, "I mean, when you're staring at the computer screen, you believe that you're in a dimmly lit basment staring at a computer screen.With each keystroke you're just like oh my god, that sounds exactly like the keystrokes that I know from my own personal experience of hitting keys".

A fantastic bit of work by the guys at The Onion.



'My own personal experience of hitting keys'! Genius!!

Do The Test

Hopefully you caught the dothetest ad for Transport for London when it was doing trhe viral rounds. If not, check it now – brilliant, brilliant work. Created by WCRS, the video resulted in over 5 million views online in the space of one month.

Now I’m also happy to say, it’s won a Gold Lion at last week’s Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.

Congratulations to everyone involved.

I bet they wish it didn't go viral!

Last week Coldplay's new album went straight to No 1with sales in excess of 300,000 copies. This is some achievment in just three days, but on top of that they also sold out a string of concerts and had huge iTunes coverage. In short, things were going fairly swimmingly.

Swimmingly didn't last long though. Just as suddenly as Viva La Vida soared, the band were hit with potentially crashing news. A small band called the Creaky Boards has launched a plagiarism suit against the band for their title track,which the boards claim has elements stolen from a track of theirs entitled 'The Songs I Didn't Write'.

Andrew Hoepfner, the Creaky Boards' singer and songwriter, has posted a video on YouTube, comparing the two tracks, which do have very similar sounds. Unfortunately the claims made by Hoepfner, that Chris Martin attended a Creaky Boards concert in New York last year have been completely refuited the band's spokesman Murray Chalmers.

"First, on the night in October when the band say Chris Martin was watching them, he was actually working at the Air Studio in London, and we can prove that. Second, even if he had been at the gig, "Viva la Vida" was written and demoed seven months before the night in question, so it couldn't possibly have been copied." . "We were flattered when we thought we saw Chris Martin in the crowd," said Mr Hoepfner. "He seemed pretty into it... Maybe TOO into it?"

Unfortunately Hoepfner's clip rapidly went viral and has already attracted nearly 430,000 views!, and although Coldplay have said they will not persue legal action against the Boards, this bad press could potentially cause serious damage to the bands reputation.

Neighbourhood Rock Gods

If you caught my GH4 post you'll already know how much I love filthy 80's rock. The guitar is awesome. Unfortunately it's only ever you and one mate. Sure there's Rock Band but I've never really felt the draw. This has changed!

Two important things have completely changed my mind about Rock Band - 1. I found out you can use the GH guitars (awesome!), and 2. this: