What’s old is new again

October 1, 2009 at 7:32 pm · Filed under Design, Geek Culture & Tech


Wisconsin town buys billboard to advertise its Facebook page.


Man donates to charity, gets street in Palestinian refugee camp named after his Twitter account

European event promoting company re-printed their Tweets in the newspaper… under picture of Michael Jackson.

Google advertises in Indian newspaper.


And the following billboard is how Ashton Kutcher beat CNN to 1 million Twitter followers.


The 6 o’clock evening news may be a relic, but Katie Couric has a hip new web show. It’s called @katiecouric, ‘cuz she’s on the Twitter.

Via Urlesque






  • correction

    Good post. One correction though, 3rd one is not by an events company, it is by eurostar, the train company that connects london with the rest of europe.

  • Chris

    Good God Roba!
    I’ve been trying so hard lately to purge even the thought of glenn beck from my mind.
    Man your cruel.lol

    So Brad and Angelina were at the Licky Licious ice cream parlor in Amman.Any good?

  • http://andfaraway.net Roba

    Correction, thanks for the correction, honestly, I copied the thing straight off urlesque (link at end of post). But good to know. Thanks again.

    Chris, actually, a friend and fellow blogger owned Lickylicious. thearabobserver.blogspot.com/
    Not the most delicious ice-cream shop in town, but it definitely has the most character.