The Road is Your Canvas

The Nike "ChalkBot" put messages uploaded by users onto the Tour De France roadways to help inspire Lance Armstrong during the race.

There's a video at the link that shows what the ChalkBot is.

Moon Landing - 40 year anniversary

Check this out.

Super cool site where they're counting down to the Apollo Moon landing mission as if it were 40 years ago and there were things like Twitter around.

Save the US Economy ...

In "The Bailout Game"

Pfizer raises the bar.

Great 'interactive' experience by Pfizer Germany. Bad pun in title by me.

Interactive doesn't necessarily mean digital.

Business Card for Couples Therapist Marisa Schmidt. (Via directdaily. ... now on the blogroll in the sidebar)

Incredible, inflatable, interactive colon!

"Ladies and gentlemen, the colon is now open. Please, come inside the colon. That's it. Take it all the way in ..."

Somebody, quick, Googlemap Somerset, KY!

You too can send a Santa tattoo

Thanks to R/GA, Creativity's Interactive Agency of the Year, you too can send a Santa tattoo.

[Tattoo Santa]

Dylan goes digital.

Take Dylan's immortal 'first music video ever' , bastardize it with equally landmark poetry like "Hey dudes, whatz upppp?" and "This is rad." and send it to your friends, courtesy of Dylanmessaging.com

These internets are downright fascinating!

Study Nonaology.

Great site that shows the benefits of living better at Lake Nona, one of those 'master planned' communities in Orlando.

Truth is, it could be like THX1138 or something, but at least it looks nice and has a cool map to play with.

MK12!

Some nifty work from Kansas City-based MK12 is here.

Check in, stay awhile

Interesting, submersive online world built for Playstation 3 Europe at ThisIsLiving.tv:

Name the flavor. Probably win something.

While traversing the aisles of my local Giant Eagle, I spied this black Doritos bag with the mysterious X-13D on it. Sensing a dubious marketing ploy, I bought a bag. Well, actually, my wife bought the bag for her friend at work, so I have no idea what the mystery flavor that you are invited to name is. But there's obviously an online component here. So go forth and cognominate! And win (something ... I didn't check out exactly what, but you can do that on the website, I'm sure.)

Traditional advertising future

More like The Road Warrior, less like The Jetsons, so says Chief Big Geek.

Ummm....

In continuing with our international theme, Japan brings us .... this?

Track illness near you!

With Who Is Sick

Comedy Democracy

Is this not the best time to be alive? Maybe not, but it's certainly better than feudal Japan, where you had little control over what Kabuki show you'd be able to see next.

Now, thanks to the combined powers of the internets and webs, you have the right to vote for what you think is funny. And isn't that what comedy is all about? Really?

FunnyOrDie.com

Will Ferrel's online comedy progeny that features user-generated content that either lives or dies at the hands of voters, who rate each uploaded video. If it's not highly rated, it goes the way of the dodo.

PROS: Ferrell is eternally funny. I have no idea why, but he just is.

CONS: Slow, server issues -- they need to host on faster, bigger ones.

NOTE: The site is in BETA release currently, so some bugs are still being worked out.








Acceptable TV

Dan Harmon's internet component of his VH1 Acceptable TV show, which broadcasts Friday nights at 10 pm. Harmon sold the show to VH1 as a derivative of his and Rob Schrab's internet-based comedy experiment Channel 101. Jack Black is an executive producer.

PROS: A solid system, Harmon's experience with Channel 101 translates well.

CONS: Lots of content. Hard to wade through.


The Human Giant

This is the internet component of an MTV comedy sketch show, The Human Giant. The Human Giant guys are actually Channel 102 alumni, which was an East Coast spin off of Channel 101, mentioned above. This Hollywood! So Incestuous! Anyways, this isn't really like the first two, in that it's not user-generated comedy. You can still 'vote' for your favorite part of their stuff, but that doesn't guarantee that you'll see any more of those clips.

PROS: Some funny stuff. I've always like Shutterbugs. And if you 'vote', you get a Quizno's coupon.

CONS: More like communistic socialism, where 'the State' determines what is best for 'the proletariat' , or whatever.

Why Al Gore Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet

Sweet Holy Gorgeous.

Selling a DVD?

Sell it like a car.

Experiential web where you, uh, experience the web.

The Internet Walk

Now, you too can pretend you're Rich Hall!

He called his made-up words sniglets. But at Verbotomy, you can make up your own "Verbotomisms," and have fellow "Verbotomists" vote on which ones they like best.

The best word for the above definition is Joggernaut, at least in my humble opinion.