You know you're a myspace loser when a stick has more friends than you. 11,000+ people added an icecream stick as a friend for god knows that reason.

Not sure how many Billabong ice creams this will sell but it's going to have to be a few truck loads to recoup the cost for a Myspace custom community.

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I missed the launch but Tequila Sydney have launched an interactive video comic called Battle for the Bronchs to promote more awareness of Asthma and their Asthma Score website. BFTB looks fantastic and the productions values are pretty good. The animating comic panels is a unique touch and the mini games at the end of each chapter which works well. I think rolling them out one a month is a little sparse though as it's not the most compelling story. My fav part is the Bronchs map and trying to spot all the Asthma puns. All that's missing for a person like me is a behind the scenes section as I'd love to see how this was put together. I haven't seen something to this level done in Australia so it's great to see more good work coming out of Aus. It does remind me of the Snickers Instant Def promotion but thats really just the use of video and comic book backgrounds. Let's hope more work like this gets approved by Aussie clients as we move forward.

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I apologise for the lack of updates to the blog as I was on annual leave without my laptop for the month of May. New baners will be posted tomorrow.

Note: The non holidaying editors are on Detention :)

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PSFK is having a London installment of their conference on June 1st. I went to the NYC conference, learned a bit, met some cool folks and generally enjoyed myself. If you're in the London area, I recommend checking it out.

The current speakers are:

Niku Banaie, Naked Communications

Mike Butcher, TBites

Russell Davies, Open Intelligence Agency

Regine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art

Jeremy Ettinghausen, Penguin Books

Karen Fraser, Ethical Index

Santiago Gowland, Unilever

John Grant, BrandTarot

Tamara Giltsoff, OZOlab brand

Jessica Greenwood, Contagious Magazine

Hugh MacLeod, GapingVoid

Beeker Northam, Bloom

Steven Overman, Lowe Worldwide

George Parker, Madscam

Simon Sinek, Sinek Partners

Stan Stalnaker, Hub

Iain Tait, Poke

Diana Verde Nieto, Clownfish

Amelia Torode, VCCP

Timo Veikkola, Nokia

Johnny Vulkan, Anomaly

Faris Yakob, Naked Communications

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Poke have once again demonstrated the value of bovine intervention, spot the bull named Derek and win tickets to the Glastonbury Music festival courtesy of Orange.

Where you, if you win, can act like an animal, chew your cheeks, and shit wherever you like.

ps. Sorry I've been away so long. tc.

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