Some minor issues

At These Days our DC (short for Design Cartel) started a blog some time ago. Check it out here: design.thesedays.com. It’s out in the open now.

It seems they are going for it, already leaving the labs behind in posting frequency. Come-on developers, let’s catch up!

Ine showed me an other Berlitz funny ad

Seems like a nice client to work for

Great way to promote the Berlitz language courses

Excuse me while I kiss this guy.
Via Ondernemer in Gent

After all they won the grand prix (Film Lions) at the Cannes advertising festival.

Here is the winning video

It rocks. And the campaign around it rocked as well. There was a lot of UGC involved.
Great Job Ogilvy Toronto!

Also enjoy this Parody

Recently there was some fuzz about a playboy model who’s belly button was eleminated in the photoshopping (via Serge)

I don’t get all the love I need from Technorati
Their algorithm to process inbound links doesn’t take redirects into account. Example: my blog is located at www.minorissues.be/blog/ but since I don’t use this domain for anything else but blogging www.minorissues.be is just a redirect to my blog. People know this. So some just link to the domain name, others directly to the blog, or to a specific article.
Technorati only take direct links to the blog (index or article) into account. So every link linking to the domain name is ignored.

Pretty stupid huh? And there is no way to solve this, because you have to embed Technorati code in a blog you claim. I can’t figure out a way to include this code in the redirect :/
To be ideal you should be able to give your blog alternative domain names or something.

So a tip for aspirant bloggers out there: just blog on your domain root. Or don’t redirect so people will link to the correct link anyway. To late for me: I don’t want to break any link. Could work with a buffer page, but don’t like that idea either.

Also worries me for migrating my blog. Some day I was planning to switch to WordPress and indeed move my blog to the full domain. But how will Technorati react? In my mind: these are things they’ll need to figure out.

One last thing since we’re ranting anyway (for the record: I do love Technorati, just don’t like these little things), I don’t seem to be able to change my blog description. It states “in Dutch”, but since I blog mainly in English nowadays, I changed it. But it doesn’t change on the site ..

An impression by NTT DoCoMo.

Thanks PJ

Last Wednesday I was attending an evening session organized by Vepec. Special guest: Cees Hamelink. When I saw his name popping up I was intrigued: as a student Communication Science I had the pleasure to follow his class. He really impressed me back at the days, so I wanted to see more.

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Robin Wauters started a great new initiative: Open Coffee Club.
This is a proven success formula over the globe, and it’s coming to Belgium.

The first meeting is the 6th of July in some coffee bar in Belgium. I just registered and try to be present.

In short, it’s meeting opportunity, focused on Business. If you see the attendee list it clearly (for now) attracts people from the Belgian interactive industry. I saw some old friends popping up, some people I spoke before and want to speak again, and some faces I haven’t met yet but eager to do so.

You can find out more on the OCC Belgium page (register here as well), or on Robin’s 2.0 blog.

See you all there! Looking forward to it.

Wii eat your heart out!
Play online (without motion).

The Belgian interactive sector is on a roll. After DAD joining LBi, One Agency getting born, These Days joining the Wunderman network, I-merge becoming Boondoggle .. Emakina makes a move again: it acquires The Reference.

Read the press release on the Emakina investors corner (in Dutch and French) or the article on Digimedia (in Dutch) or the news on the Reference website (finaly English).

It seems Anja won the Vegas contest (sell something to a competing agency). She apparently sold The Reference to Brice

Good luck guys!