Fri 25 Feb. 2005

Podcast: Texas style accident report

An operations manager for Jack in the Box was late for a meeting and
called his boss to tell him he was running late. As he was leaving the
voice mail message, he witnessed an accident and went on to provide
“play by play” of the incident. This is the actual voice mail message.

This is too funny: A guy hits a car with four old ladies. Acts like an idiot and they kick his butt.

Man: She just hit him in the head with a bible.

(via Crooks and Liars)

Internal Blogs And Wikis At The BBC

BBC is not only trying blogs and podcasting as tools in their core business - publishing - they’re also way ahead of most companies when it comes to internal uses of social media.

Euan Semple from the BBC DigiLab tells The Broadband Blog about what they’re doing - and why.

(via CorporateBlogging.info)

Another Iranian blogger gets jailed

Payvand’s Iran News has the story.

He was sentenced on appeal on 23 February and is still free but risks
arrest at any moment. The day before, another blogger, Arash Sigarchi,
was jailed for 14 years on similar charges.

(via Topix.net/blognews)

Adopt A Minefield!

Did you know that you can donate as much or as little as you want ($5, $25, $1000) or you can adopt an entire minefield for $25,000 or more?

Hats off! What a brilliant idea!

A project of the United Nations Association of the USA, supported by The UN Foundation.

Lots o’ Jots

Less posts here usually means more Jots, a few more Spurls and a digg or two.

The Financial Times on Blogs and Wikis

The complete article, Blogging technology opens doors for enterprises, is for subscribers only.

But then wikiSquared quotes it in its entirety.

(via del.icio.us/tag/rss)

Powers of 10

Powers of Ten: a film about the relative size of things and the effect of adding a zero. Every ten seconds adding a zero to the distance in metres from a man as more and more of the bigger picture and his place in the universe is revealed…

(via digg/movies)