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Written on 26th June 2009
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Martin Bryant, Co-founder, Social Media Café Manchester
With news of Michael Jackson’s passing sinking in, the web has now recovered from the initial traffic surges it suffered as word first spread. As the blogosphere picks apart the way the story unfolded online, many are coming to the conclusion that the realtime web isn’t really the best place to get news accurately.
The first two sources to confirm Jackson’s death were online. TMZ and the LA Times suffered vast traffic surges that took them down, while Twitter (in between outages) was spreading misinformation about other celebrity deaths. Hours after the rumour began, people are still asking if Jeff Goldblum is dead (he isn’t).
So, when you can’t rely on the internet, TV’s the place to go right? Sure TV news is always there and it’s more careful with its facts; is it really any more useful though? Pictures for Sad Children makes a great point in this cartoon. The internet maybe unreliable, but at least it says something!
Written on 29th May 2009
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
NetCalls, iTwitter, Zzitter and Zits? See the future if Apple would buy Twitter in this beautiful cartoon/illustration/roadmap by The Joy of Tech:
Written on 14th May 2009
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Well, I didn’t ask but I’m guessing this would put a smile on Andrew Keen’s face. Oh, in fact; Andrew Keen LOVES this cartoon MORe than anything else in the world. Don’t believe me? Give me ten minutes and check wikipedia!
Found at Dilbert.com
Written on 13th April 2009
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
No, lets both read The Next Web blog so we can discuss something REALLY interesting! :-)
Written on 23rd March 2009
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
On August 6, 2008, exactly 230 days ago, I stumbled upon a cute little project called WillDrawAnything. The site promises that its owner “Will Draw Anything For $2″. Always in for an experiment I paid the $2 expecting a cartoon within a few days. Unfortunately, or luckily, the site became popular pretty soon resulting in a backlog of, well, over 200 days.
The rules of WillDrawAnything are pretty simple: you pay $2 via paypal and supply a sentence, title or subject (no x-rated content). The cartoonist, DJ Coffman, will make you a 72 DPI cartoon based on the information you supply.
This is what i got:
Not bad for $2 right? My only wish would be that mr Coffman will increase the price to a reasonable $10 and cut down the time to 2 or three days. If he could do that I wouldn’t mind ordering a cartoon a week to use here on the blog or in our newsletter. But sometimes you gotta take the web as it is offered to you.
For now, go to willdrawanything.com and order your own cartoon so you can have it by November 8, 2009.
Written on 22nd January 2009
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
There’s this growing sentiment emerging against “social media experts” and their Twitter bots. Some even call it the “cancer of Twitter“. The Hubspot marketing blog doesn’t need any comparisons with awfull diseases, and uses a funny cartoon instead.
![Making Friends: LinkedIn vs. Facebook vs. Twitter [cartoon]](http://img.skitch.com/20090122-bkgn6q32n64kftmamt1pwydjrd.jpg "A cartoon about why you should ditch your auto follow Twitter bot Photo")
Written on 1st December 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Found at Toothpastefordinner:
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Written on 21st November 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Wow, this cartoon was made for us! We knew we did something right when we decided to name our company “The Next Web” instead of something boring like “The Web2.0 Blog”.
Found at Geek And Poke.
Thanks for the tip ellemijn!
Written on 19th November 2008
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
This has gone down a storm in the Apps Room on Friendfeed and thought it was a must to share with the Next Web community as i’m sure many of you (myself included) can relate.
Can you relate? :)
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