Webisodes done right!

If you haven’t watched Dr. Horrible yet, go do it now.  All you need to know is that Joss Whedon is in control, there’s singing, and Neal Patrick Harris stars in the thing.  I would go on but you’re probably gone already.
Dr. Horrible came in 3 parts: Awesome Awesome and Awesome.

Dr. Horrible came in 3 parts: Awesome Awesome and Awesome.

carrotmob.org

We all get those emails that say “don’t buy gas on May 31st! — we’ll teach those oil companies!” and then we never know what happens, even if we don’t buy the gas that day.  There’s a group that’s take this kinda idea and applied to it to the flash mob idea.  Carrotmob.org is proposing that consumers band together and use their purchasing power to change the way businesses think about energy efficiency.  They do this by focusing a lot of consumer power at one brand or location who have agreed to use a percentage of their profit to decrease their carbon footprint.  Their first test was a smashing success and I’m looking forward to hearing out their future projects.

What I love about this approach is that is that it doesn’t involve any negatives: no boycotts, no strikes, no horrible letters.  Everyone wins here.  Great idea!

Do You Twitter?

I didn’t… not until recently.  I went on a business trip recently and the talk amongst the co-workin’ folk was community sites. I had a twitter account but never used it.  So that piqued my curiosity and I got to twittering.  It’s pretty cool once you get some people together and start to form a kinda of conversation around what everyone’s doing.  I didn’t see the 2-wayness about it until I got going.  I thought it was more like a “I’m gonna tell the world what I’m up to all the time” thing.  Turns out it’s cooler than that, and not nearly as selfish as that may sound.  If you want, go over to twitter and sign up, and add me!  I added my latest twitter in the right column here as well.