France is one step closer to becoming the first country to set a curfew for email, after a bill banning companies with 50 or more employees from sending emails after work hours recently passed the French lower parliament.
The bill’s next destination is the French Senate, and if passed, it will be sent back to the National Assembly to become law. It would require businesses to define the work hours in which email can or cannot be sent, and is intended to reduce workplace stress.
Studies point to email as a major headache for consumers, with reports correlating checking email with negative health consequences....
Lord God you know. Lord God you know why the timing of emails sent re being used in negative manner and for others gain Lord God get In the midst and destroy these bondages for the weapons of warfare are not carnal Lord God we wrestle not against flesh and blood but wickednesses and rulers of darkness in high places that come to enslave your people and control and manipulate our lives but Lord God you are for us a and you are more than the whole world against us. We are not conformed to man plans or evilness but transformed thru and by you Lord God and we thank you for keeping each and every one of us in Jesus name Thank you Lord God.
Reporter Jonathan Pie thinks politicians should just answer the fucking question. To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please emai
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Always-funny, pseudo-reporter Jonathan Pie goes ballistic about British politicians who don't answer questions without a sound bite. I'd love to see him go after Trump.
Truthfully, the best brands to follow in social media should probably have a combination of all those characteristics. But I'd venture to say that many of you are following a brand simply for its entertainment value. (I know I am.)
You know -- the brands that really tickle your funny bone and sometimes even make your sides hurt from laughter. And while it may not seem like a funny update has any value, surely there's value in showing off your personality and being a lovable brand, right?
So to help bring out your inner comedian, we've compiled a list of brands whose social media presence gives us the giggles. Check 'em put....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Take a look at the brands on social media who are doing a good job not taking themselves too seriously.
Here’s one thing to impress your friends with the next time you order a takeaway: new and exotic ways to slice a pizza.
Most of us divide a pizza using straight cuts that all meet in the middle. But what if the centre of the pizza has a topping that some people would rather avoid, while others desperately want crust for dipping?
Mathematicians had previously come up with a recipe for slicing – formally known as a monohedral disc tiling – that gives you 12 identically shaped pieces, six of which form a star extending out from the centre, while the other six divide up the crusty remainder. You start by cutting curved three-sided slices across the pizza, then dividing these slices in two to get the inside and outside groups, as shown below....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Now this is perfect for the weekend and football playoffs! Who knew Grade 12 math would come in so handy?
If you get a kick out of grammar jokes, you'll love this list of 23 of our favorites.
Have you ever cringed at a "Got Milk?" ad? Feel a strange sense of pride when you find a typo in a reputable book? Did you secretly (or not-so-secretly) love making syntax trees in school?
Then you might just love these grammar jokes as much as we do. Here are a few of our favorites -- share yours with us in the comment section!...
One week it was corn bread, next came challah, then naan and Italian loaf. An unnamed young woman spent this autumn placing 20 such pieces of bread onto a table—one at a time—before smushing her face into the baked goods and posting Instagram videos of the bizarre activity.
And 22 weeks since launching the Instagram account called BreadFaceBlog, she has 29,300 followers, 8,000 of which she gained in the last two-and-a-half weeks. Only two of her posts have failed to get a combined 1,000 likes and comments—the rest have performed in the range of 3,000 to 10,000 likes and comments.
To put that into perspective, the longtime bakery King's Hawaiian has 7,000 Instagram followers after being on the platform for nearly three years, and the bread brand regularly gets only a few hundred likes and comments per post. The woman behind BreadFaceBlog actually put her face on three King's Hawaiian rolls as if her cheeks were rolling pins and garnered 1,269 likes and 3,469 comments....
Children in Norway received a traumatic surprise last week when Aftenposten, the country’s second-largest newspaper, mistakenly published an obituary for Santa Claus on the newspaper’s Web site, where it quickly went viral.
The newspaper swiftly removed the fictional death notice and apologized, but not before a generation of little Haralds and Hildes were left crying in their herring. (Seriously, I kid the Norwegians because I love them.)
The obituary announced that “Dear Father Christmas, born 12 December 1788” had passed away on December 3 at the ripe old age of 227 in the town of Nordkapp, fittingly located at Norway’s extreme northern point above the Arctic Circle. The notice, which included an image of a cross, added that a funeral and memorial service would be held at the “North Pole Chapel” on December 28....
Creatives, despair! With just six weeks left in 2015, the most shared ad of the year contains nothing but found footage, according to new data from Unruly—hilarious and adorable found footage, but found footage nonetheless.
But maybe that's OK. The spot, "Friends Furever" for Google's Android, caused a bit of consternation at first over at Droga5—the agency that created it, and which is known for creating some of the industry's most original advertising, not just slapping together funny clips it finds on the Internet.
But as David Droga said during an Advertising Week panel in September, you can't be too proud when it comes to creating something compellingly shareable....
The 2016 US presidential election is still more than a year away, but the battle is already heating up on social media — with some unexpected results.
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and the rest of the 2016 hopefuls are busy duking it out on Twitter and Facebook, as well as newer platforms like Instagram, Snapchat and live-streaming tools Meerkat and Periscope. At stake is a lot more than just likes and views. By many accounts, social media helped Barack Obama tip the balance during the 2012 election. (His campaign spent 10 times as much on social media as did Mitt Romney’s, earning Obama twice as many Facebook Likes and 20 times as many Retweets). Political pundits are already predicting that social media may rival traditional ads for influence in this election cycle.
The result has been a social media frenzy, with candidates from all backgrounds eagerly jumping in and trying to get their messages out. The quest to stand out from the noise has led to some pretty creative experiments on the part of the 2016 presidential class. Sometimes they get it right. Sometimes they get it wrong. And sometimes the results are just surreal....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes, a Canadian, dissects US political social media efforts and finds some laughs.
In my last column, "If Social Networks Were Real People," I introduced you to Facebook Felicia, Twitter Tommy, LinkedIn Larry, Pinterest Penny, Instagram Izzy, Snapchat Sam, and Google+ Gertrude. By creating personas for the top social networks, we unveiled key marketing opportunities with each platform.
Today, let’s continue the persona development theme and wrap it around the types of people you meet at industry conferences. Just making sure you’ll be equipped to survive and thrive at your next show....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Fun post on the people you meet at trade shows from Aaron Goldman. LOL.
Google’s Street View team does an awesome job in getting just about everywhere these days, from the Great Barrier Reef to the top of Mount Fuji to inside the world’s largest passenger plane.
However, a somewhat brave attempt to offer stay-at-home travelers an immersive view of one of the world’s most bizarre festivals ended in failure this week when the camera-equipped car ended up being overrun by revelers. Oh, and tomatoes, too.
Yes, this was La Tomatina, an annual event in the town of Buñol in eastern Spain that sees some 30,000 people from around the world hitting the streets with the sole intention of laying waste to 150 tons of tomatoes....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
It may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but Google ended up having to pulp its plan to capture Street View imagery at Spain's famous tomato-throwing festival after its car and camera were damaged by exuberant revelers. Weekend funnies.
Not only were these April Fool’s pranks funny, they were smart. These five well-known brands played off their marketing strengths, trends, consumer desires and technology to pull one over on the internet-trusting public on April 1st.
Best April Fools Pranks of 2016
From faux fashion collections to made-up mobile phone apps brands H&M, OpenTable, Krispy Creme, Samsung and CarGurus proved they have a sense of humor in addition to their marketing savvy. Appearing on April 1st, aka April Fool’s Day, were real-looking websites, mock-technology videos and phony products launched by these brands which either led you to the real sites or reminded you of how much you like them. Win-Win.
On Valentine’s Day, it’s important to tell the people you love that you don’t believe in the concept of true love, and that you expect your relationship to crumble with time, as all things do. Just kidding! You should tell the people you love that you’ll never leave their side, and plan to be buried alive next to them when they die. Actually, that’s probably not a good idea, either. Maybe just tell the people you love that you love them, and show them some Valentine’s Day cartoons.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Colin Stokes shares a collection of Valentine’s Day cartoons from the New Yorker.
The Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year for 2015 was in fact not a word. It was the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji. This one >
You’ll no doubt recognise it – here’s how it looks interacting through social networks and apps, and we’ll also look at what this shift means for marketers. Let’s go!
You might think Instagram is all about photography. Not so, says David Kolbusz.
"Instagram is a writer's medium," the creative director declares at the top of his feed. And he makes a good case for that with his posts—a hodgepodge of everyday shots brought to life with hilariously twisted, ranty, profanity-laced captions.
Kolbusz frequently tees off on society's ills, harboring a particular distaste for idiotic technological "advancements." (Recent recurring targets include selfie sticks and hoverboards.) But some of the best posts are almost like short stories, as Kolbusz invents a whole ludicrous backstory to the image presented. Check out a handful of our favorite posts below....
Donald Trump can be entirely banned from the internet using a Chrome extension.
The software analyses websites for the use of his name and stops access to any website that contains it.
Its creator says that the tool hasn’t just been created to filter out the often incendiary pronouncements of the presidential candidate — but in the hope of broadening the debate, too.
"I hope folks will take this opportunity to learn more about the wide field of candidates out there," Rob Spectre, who created the Trump Filter, told CNN. The extension could allow people to actually learn about the issues that are at stake in the race to be the Republican candidate for president, he said....
UK News reporter Jonathan Pie has a go at David Cameron, Alan Sugar, Nuclear Weapons, Matt Damon's treatment in the press, Jeremy Corbyn's treatment by the press...you name it, he has a go about it!
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Jonathan Pie delivers the news the way we all really feel it should be delivered. He loses it wonderfully in this superb comic spot. Recommended viewing! 10/10
As you know I get most of my jokes for Friday Funnies in my inbox. Today’s Friday Funnies isn’t so much a joke as it’s the funny things that some kids came up with at a Catholic elementary school test.
Can you imagine a nun sitting at her desk grading these papers , all the while trying to keep a straight face and maintain her composure!
Pay special attention to the wording and spelling . If you know the Bible even a little, you'll find this hilarious!
It comes from a Catholic elementary school test. Kids were asked questions about the Old and New Testament.
The following 25 statements about the Bible were written by children. They have not been retouched or corrected. Incorrect spelling has been left in....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Writers and bloggers take note. Friday Funnies indeed.
In 140 characters or less, brands on Twitter have given themselves a bad name. It's not exactly hard to understand why—from a series of Twitter missteps, to overused, lazy jokes or their persistent desire from some brands to insert themselves in conversations they don't belong in.
Why even bother following a brand's Twitter account?
Every so often a brand gets it right. Some demonstrate quick thinking during real-time events, as seen by Oreo's famous dunk in the dark Super Bowl tweet. Others use quick wit to win people over, think Arby's Grammy tweet pointing out the resemblance between its own logo and Pharrell's hat.
Then there are brands such as Totinos and DiGiorno Pizza that crack absurb and silly jokes at unexpected times to garner laughs and followers. Totinos tallies 77,400 Twitter followers, while DiGiorno has racked up 93,100. Take a look at funniest brand accounts in the video above that may even have the power lighten up that dark, brand-hating soul of yours....
From time to time, even web designers need a good joke to keep the humdrum away. We’re sure that you’ve seen some or all of these jokes already. What we did is compile what we think are the best and funniest jokes from around the Web and put them here in one place.
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Feeling blue? Here's a huge compilation of web designer jokes from around the web.
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Lord God you know. Lord God you know why the timing of emails sent re being used in negative manner and for others gain Lord God get In the midst and destroy these bondages for the weapons of warfare are not carnal Lord God we wrestle not against flesh and blood but wickednesses and rulers of darkness in high places that come to enslave your people and control and manipulate our lives but Lord God you are for us a and you are more than the whole world against us. We are not conformed to man plans or evilness but transformed thru and by you Lord God and we thank you for keeping each and every one of us in Jesus name Thank you Lord God.