SA Blog Awards 2008, March wallpaper, links, apologies and more.

March Wallpaper. View. Download. Enjoy.

I’m back. I’ve been away. Did you notice? No? I went away for aaages. No idea huh? Bleak.

Well, I’m back.

And just to get back into the swing of things, here are some links this fantastic Monday to get your procrastinating off to an early start this week.

Typetester – Typetester is an online application for comparing fonts for on-screen use. It handily puts fonts into three different groups: safe list, Win default, Mac default. It’s pretty useful and well worth a look.

For the colour geeks – Little-Known Meanings of Crazy Color Names vol. 3

Drips, splats, splots – I’ve been doing some advertising work for Sega and some of their new games for Viking and House of the Dead and hence have been using a lot of blood splatters etc. Came across this in my Google travels. Design Meltdown looks at sites that used the drips and splatters as design elements.

Search Engine Myths – And Lies! – Full Time Blogger brings to our attention an article by Gobala that reviewed Jon Leger’s “Search Engine Myths Exposed“.

Stat for the week:

Broadband subscribers rose to 829,300 in New Zealand in 2007. Not including sheep.

And in other news, WAYN.com, the social media travel could be up for sale at around £100m, any takers? If you’re thinking about going into digital entrepreneurship, social networks are still the way to go I reckon.

Lastly, and most importantly, the finalists for the SA Blog Awards 2008 have been released and BrandNewMedia is one of them! Amazing! BrandNewMedia has been nominated in the category “Best SA Blog about Design“. Not exactly the Oscars , but hey. Thanks to everyone who nominated this blog! Now if you could repeat the process and vote for BrandNewMedia to actually win the category, that would be awesome. Also remember to vote for Baglett ;)

Oh, and lastly lastly, I had a rant on an earlier post about the website for the new movie Untraceable. I ranted and raved that the website was kak and had nothing on it. Well, apparantly you’re supposed to click on the “The Federal Cyber Crimes Taskforce” link and well, the website is there!

I feel stupid.

It got pointed out to me awhile ago and I still feel stupid. Although in my defense I think it’s a pretty poor call to action. But then maybe I didn’t buy into the whole idea properly in the first place.

Untraceable. Not such a bad thing.

There’s a new movie out called Untraceable starring Diane Lane as FBI agent Jennifer Marsh. She is tasked with hunting down a seemingly untraceable serial killer who posts live videos of his victims on the Internet. The catch is, the more people that log onto the website, the faster his victims die.

So there’s been a fair bit of online advertising for the movie along with the usual TV spots and they’ve been punting the movie website www.killwithme.co.uk. So I thought cool, a movie that has a website at the core of its plot, a pretty gruesome plotline and they’ve been pushing the url quite a bit, the website must be pretty cool.

So I checked it out.

What a huge disappointment. There’s no website. Visit the url and you’re presented with a big red ENTER button. Click on ENTER and you’re told, “You may be harming people by visiting this website”, yes, yes, whatever, click.

And there’s nothing there. Nothing, nix, nada. Just a pop up that says something like “where are your morals?”. Big wow. Oh and a button to join the Federal Cyber Crimes talkforce.

What. A. Letdown.