The Big Word Project

As far as pointless hair brained money making, fame educing projects on the web go, this one is fantastic!

Two guys from my home country have come up with an idea to clear their student loans by re defining the entire English language, and I have to say, it might just work!

The idea is very simple, pick a word, I picked SCOUTS, pay $1 per letter, then link that word on their site to where you feel the word SCOUTS best links to! So far over 3200 words have been redefined, and i would say that with recent press coverage this will take off big!

Although, i’ve been struggling about any posatives for the guys, after the fad so to speak. I mean its no wikipedia and I cant really see people going to http://www.thebigwordproject.com time and time again to see what words have been redefined, or better still to do some research

In the short term however things look good for the guys, hopefully it will project them into something big for project 2!

for more info see http://www.thebigwordproject.com

What is the more important job: A doctor or a councellor?

I overheard a conversation in the coffee shop today whereby a woman was telling her friend about the time her Husband met the Prince Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh.

Her husband is a local council man and also a Doctor, The question the Duke posed to him was which of his roles did he think was better for society?

The Duke seemed to think that his role as a Doctor was the more beneficial role, whereas the Doctor seemed to think his role as councilman was more important.

So i got to thinking………… and I think a Doctor is far more important than a jumped up cival servant, yea sure we need some government officials but surely not the level we have, whereas we are critically sort on Doctors, last week Tyrone casualty had to close for a full weekend as there was no doctor on call, crazy!

Im going to let the debate rage on with my Explorer scouts this evening to see what a bunch of teenagers think of it….

Iphone price crash in UK and Germany

Carphone warehouse have crashed the price of the 8gb iphone model during slowing sales by £100 to sit @ £169 on contract….. £30 cheaper than the ipod touch!

Meanwhile in Germany the price of the 8gb model has crashed from E399 to just E99 on contract

The price crash has further fueled the rumour that the 3g model earmarked for the Australian market, may go global.

02 Ireland Iphone , days away from deal

After being slammed in the press for launching the wi-fi dependand Apple Iphone without a wi-fi roaming partner

02 are days away from striking the deal with a strategy partner

I will post more when I know more!

twitter.com – updated

So i tried out twitter a while back and was very quick to dismiss it as simply, boring and said

“Will it work, hmmm seems to be popular in oz and usa, Facebook have it wraped up tho I think”

Ok well, I was wrong, mark my words, this thing is addictive, fantastic and will takeover in a short period of time, bebo, then facebook before be bought for silly money by some yahoo microsoft sort

On the outset, when you first sign up you have no followers (people who look at what you say) and knowone to follow, so its pretty boring……. Right get into the public timeline and just watch it for a few minutes, you will soon find some like minded people talking your sort of jib!

Next, hit the settings page and change the option under notices @replys to ‘all @ replys’

After this, get onto facebook and an the twittersync application ( i cant find one on bebo) after this what ever you update on twitter, auto goes on your facebook update, saving you the bother of doing it twice

If you want to have a conversation with someone, friend or foe, pop the following in front of what you want to say @username this way they will know what you are talking about!

When you starting to have fun and starting to get addicted, you could switch on the phone settings, but be brave, you will be bombarded with texts!

I recommend following wsieguyrussell, retrogrrl and calilewis