Mucking around with Wordle and thought I'd create one from my @graeme_harrison tweets during June.
No real surprise for a Sport & Digital Marketer, but the World Cup and iPad dominates my tweets.
Chats with @mdite105 are about her John O Groats to Lands End cycle and @Grumblemouse about the end of 24 series 8.
Next month ... expect more World Cup tweets along with L'Etape du Tour and Tour de France chat ;)
I’ve struggled to write a post so far in 2010...
...maybe I’ve got bloggers block?
Perhaps I just need to upload one "post"..
So to break the ice, I’m blogging my 5 most viewed posterous posts from 2009.
Enjoy ..... hopefully this will open the 2010 floodgate.
10: Johnny Cash: Personal Jesus
Awesome track and possibly my favourite cover of all time ... hats off to Depeche Mode and Johnny Cash... I'm so glad it sneaked into the 10.
9: Lego: Matrix - Trinity Help
Lego had to get in there somehow.. after all its the retro story of 2009.
This is my favourite, slo mo animation + Lego + The Matrix = The Whole Enchilada
8: Basketball: I Think We All Get a Bit Of This
If you feel like the guy in the white on a regular basis, then maybe pop on over to AdLandSuit's blog, ....you're not alone!
7: Tactical Advertising: BMI & BA
In Mid -December BA announced their planned Christmas Strike, BMI ran this ad in the Evening Standard the following day... brilliant stuff!
(Pic spotted and taken by Andrew Grill)
Stunning work....
5: Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban: 2010 FIFA World Cup Venue
Pretty awesome shot of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
The stadium will host a total of seven FIFA World Cup 2010 football matches including Germany v Australia, Spain v Switzerland, Holland v Japan, Nigeria v Korea Republic, Brazil v Portugal, A round two game and the semi final.
4: "If You Kiss Jesus" by Robin Skouteris
My favourite UGC from 2009, I love this stuff, featuring Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Depeche Mode, Flo Rida, Goldfrapp & Hilary Duff
3: "Procrastination" Tales of Mere Existence
I guess we all need a kick up the arse every now and then, this usually does the trick
2: Wenger, Henry, Mourinho Impressions
Hey, I have no idea who this boy is - but he's damn good.
He's got Thierry Henry absolutely nailed.
1: Buggy Rollin: Crazy, Awesome and Quite Frankly Insane
It still leaves me speechless.
Thats better I think I'm unblocked now ;)
Want to find something out?
... "Google it".Which made me think, could "Google Insights for Search" predict the winner before the public actually voted? Could Google Search be and accurate indictator as who would win?
Firstly, Mark Cavendish, Phillips Idowu, Beth Tweddle or Andrew Strauss, I'm sorry to say that you're not even close ... sorry guys - you have all had a fantastic year but you're not going to win - in fact you're not even in the ballpark. Tom Daley fared slightly better, but still didn't make the Top 5.
Now onto the real contenders.
The first query I ran was for "Google searches during the last 30 days". The results showed a skew towards David Haye, Jenson Button, and to a lesser extent Andy Murray. However, it became pretty obvious that results were distorted. Haye, Button and Murray scored higher due to the fact that they were in "competition" during the 30 day period. David Hayes won his World Title fight against Valuev, Jenson secured the F1 World Championship and Andy Murray played at the ATP World Tour Finals.
The BBC announced nomination on onday 30th November, and this immediately led to an increase in search volume for David Haye, Jess Ennis and Jenson Button, and to a lesser extent Ryan Giggs - with a decline for Andy Murray.
Therefore surely the proof would be search results on and after the December 1st.....
We can see that Andy Murray searches are in rapid decline after the ATP World Tour Finals and Jess Ennis looks like an outsider unable to mount a big enough challenge.
Jenson Button, the bookies favourite, is next - ever so slightly ahead of David Haye in 3rd. Of course we shouldn't forget that racing drivers and boxers traditionally perform well at SPOTY.
So according to Google Insights, the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year for 2009 will be:
1. Ryan Giggs
2. Jenson Button
3. David Haye
Well its a bit of fun ;)
..Oh and for those interested in Overseas Personality of the Year...according to Google Searches the overwhelming winner is Tiger Woods ;)
Rather surprised at this media buy.
Can't imagine that too many Apple Mac evangelists will rush out and buy Microsoft Windows 7 on launch day.
.....Not one for the Marketing Week Effectiveness Awards.
This made me laugh
Hat tip to Neil P for his tweet earlier this afternoon
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