Auravox

I’m being entangled in a web of mystery and strange coincidents. And I like it.

First off I saw this picture. Initially I thought it was related to Just and this project. I actual posted a comment on the picture and… nothing. Dead silence. But fair enough, not all comments deserves an answer.

Then, today, I was on the receiving end for one of those mysterious black poster containers seen on Flickr. I didn’t connect the dots between the Flickr image and the poster container right away - but when I did I felt strangely manipulated and part of something bigger. Or something.

So what does the container contain? A poster. Yep, that’s right. A poster in a poster container. A beautiful poster, very cool, very iconic, very webding’ish. The only hint of the poster’s purpose in life is a discrete domain name, teedot.com. Naturally, I ALT+TAB my way to Firefox to look it up.

Ok. Poetic teaser text, read aloud, promising more to come. And a black dot. That’s it besides an address. No unraveling the mystery here. So I’m forced to look up the company’s address to figure out who’s behind. Bingo! - Flashpeople. A slight unraveling of the mystery now that I have some of the plot players in place - Just and Tony. Definitely flash by Tony and poster design by Just. And the company is located at Flashpeople’s playground.

Now all I have to do figure out what the hell it is they want…

On a side note, I’ve probably just gone through all the calculated steps that either Just or Tony have bulleted on some whiteboard somewhere.

»Borgergruppen for Ungdomshuset fordømmer på det kraftigste politiets brutalitet. Dette er, hvad vi hele tiden har frygtet, ville ske, når Ungdomshuset på Jagtvej blev ryddet«, blev Esben Olsen citeret på Arbejderens hjemmeside. pol

Hvorfor fanden kastede I, de, dem så med brosten! Stop med at tude. Nu.

Viral marketing and Human Resource Management. They’re both hyped. That being said, they are actually tied closer together than I thought. Or should be. Both can have a significant impact on the public opinion of your brand. Viral marketing tends tries to effect in a positive manner, as intended, whereas HR Management can effect in a negative manner, as unintended. This switches on my own personal Lomborgisme - if the end result of an investment in viral marketing is to effect public opinion towards your brand, shouldn’t that investment be countered to the negative effects of poor HR management? In other words, if the negative effect of poor HR management outweighs the positive effect of viral marketing - then perhaps you should drop the viral costs and use them in your HR department instead.

I know. Viral marketing is easier to control. Easier to load with a specific message. It’s proactive or reactive, depending on the purpose. HR is something completely else. It’s defensive in regards to the aimed effect on public opinion. You can’t control when things go horribly wrong, you can only try your hardest. At this point, someone who accidently dropped by this blog will think: “Hey dude, good HR management can also surround a company with a positive buzz”. And he would be right. Except from the fact that it’s the negative stories that stick!

Now, if someone out there are about to write their business school thesis, consider this for a subject: “ROI considerations on viral marketing versus HR spend” - I would read it.

So. Anyway. This guy below got fired for his poetry at an Apple employee talent show:

A says: Oy!
A says: Den sang der går sådan her: “AAHH tik tak, aah tik tik tak”….er det Portishead?
A says: (eller hvordan det staves)
A says: Eller er det Moloko?
M says: øhhhhhh
M says: Kan du nynne den over messenger?
A says: Kom nu, mand! Det ved DU!
A says: Du ved: rip, dippa, dippa, dippa, daaaaaaaa - aah tik, tak, tik tik tak.
A says: COME ON LYYYSET!
M says: Er du stiv?
A says: Nej, ikke endnu
M says: Hmmm
M says: Kan du noget tekst fra sangen?
A says: Den blev spillet i radioen og jeg ved at du har den derhjemme…vi hørte den da vi skrev opgave. De hedder vist Moloko eller sådan noget
A says: Kender ikke teksten….
A says: rip, dippa, dippa, dippa, daaaaaaaa - aah tik, tak, tik tik tak.
A says: LOL! Det er spast!
A says: Prøver lige igen:
A says: rip, dippa, dippa, dippa, daaaaaaaa - aah tik, tak, tik tik tak.
M says: Det hjælper sgu’da ikke at du bliver ved med at poste det samme igen og igen!
A says: LOL!
A says: Der er sgu ikke noget som at nynne i small caps
M says: hehe
M says: http://hypem.com/search/moloko/1/
A says: Moloko - Fun For Me !!!!!
M says: Aahhh
A says: rip, dippa, dippa, dippa, daaaaaaaa - aah tik, tak, tik tik tak … fun for me, fun foooor me
A says: LOL!
M says: Ahhhh!
M says: Hehehe, den bliver logget og blogget den her samtale!