The Power Of Cartoons

Patrick Chappatte Cartoon -  The Internet has changed music

Patrick Chappatte Cartoon - The Internet has changed music

In this article I am going to talk about the Power of Cartoon and how far It can impact our lives and relationships. In my researches I found an article that exactly talks about this sensible case put up in a divertissement way.

This short video is a one man show presented by Patrick Chappatte. He is generally speaking about how cartoon is involved in politics and war, and what are the conflicts resulted from mal-uses of this powerful tool. He also discusses how the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together in a humorous context using comedy to get closer to the public’s hearts and be able to deliver his message to them.

Patrick Chappate has talked about serious global issues that have been the concern of our modern world for years now,  for example he talked about:

  • How the print media is dying because of the technological development, everyone is heading towards the Internet to find the information and Facebook and twitter are the first suspects in this case if you want my opinion.
  • How the world has gotten smaller because of technology and he even said that the world has become flat now due to the spread of technology, you all have foreign friends don’t you? That’s all because of the internet. Back in the early days, the only way for you to make foreign friends was to travel to other countries.
  • How the internet has empowered everybody: the worker, the student… just everybody even spies… there are many people are thrown in jail because of what they’ve written in their personal blogs, etc. I am just saying.
  • How did the internet changed the way of employment and how will bosses will look at their employee (beware of your facebook profile) and mentioning that this technology thing made people attached, well slaves is the word, for the internet and how they cannot advance without it.
  • How internet made us think that it simplified out tasks and made them very easy to do, but in reality and after thoroughly thinking you will discover that those tasks are ones that you never had to do before, like “updating your twitter?” why do you even want to let strange people who don’t even know you, notified about where are you going or what are you doing? Believe me they don’t a crap.
  • How cartoon has been involved in religious and political conflicts; just like what happened when they drew the prophet and how that caused violence and blood to be spilled along with saying that there are people are getting benefits from that: that is the typical mal-use of the cartoon.
  • How did he use cartoon to reunite people from different sides while his missions in the Ivory Coast, Lebanon and Kenia.

These were the main points that Patrick Cappatte talked about, I think you might need to check the video to have a closer look and laugh along with him, check it out:



And thanks to Mr. “Patrick Chappatte” and for people who don’t know him I should say that he is a cartoonist and for whom is curious about his background I should say he is a Lebasnes-Swiss man who is well know for drawing cartoons for the “Le Temps” , “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” and the “International Herald Tribune” newspapers, he is actually a pretty cool guy as he is from a Lebanese mother, Swiss father, born in Karchi, lived in Singapore and Switzerland… a global guy to resume. And I said thanks to him we are now aware about the power of cartoon and how it could be a double edged arm. For more information about this guy you can follow him on twitter http://twitter.com/globecartoon or visit his website http://www.globecartoon.com/.

Thanks for reading!

Eric Schmidt speech at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting 2011

Eric Schmidt CEO Google

Eric Schmidt CEO Google

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was the keynote speaker at the Internet Advertising Bureau Annual Leadership meeting in Palm Springs, California on February 27, 2011.

Eric begins by speaking about “Joe Morning” statement that computers are “cold companions to humans.” Eric says Joe Morning is wrong. “Computers do what computers do best; humans do what humans do best.” So net is a win for humanity.

Eric Schmidt too speaks about the Power of the Mobile web us in Internet Advertising, In his speech, he makes strong use of statistics gained from the recent Super Bowl and how the extremely expensive advertisements affected mobile search displaying a powerful impact.

Mobile searches spiked 200% for Chrysler during Super Bowl and just 48% on PCs.

American spends about a third of their media time online. Kids in future will be always online. Smart phones surpassed PCs two weeks ago. Mobile first! Develop first for the mobile web and then worry about web.

Three bets:
  • Everything is changing.
  • Our intuition about future is linear, but IT grows exponentially.
  • The new online advertising models are real time, iterative and happening now, it occurs live.

Eric Schmidt note Chrome is growing as fast as Twitter and Android has beaten iPhone and it looks like that will continue.

You are in online marketing? Than listen to this speech of Eric Schmidt very closely, there are lot of information that will give you an idea about what will be the next trends in online marketing.



The new WikiLeaks Roundtable

WikiLeaks Roundtable

WikiLeaks Roundtable on Twitter

There is a new form of WikiLeaks, the WikiLeaks Roundtable with this new WikiLeaks Video Forum, WikiLeaks talks to everyone around the world. In the past WikiLeaks have spoken to the public through the press, in future they will bring important news directly to the public domain, not filtered by intermediaries, with the full record available to all.

Therefore will be hold regular conferences where WikiLeaks answer questions directly. Videos will be created by Julian Assange and other staff talking directly to public and answering peoples questions through videos and live chats. WikiLeaks will have a platform for viral videos and be running competitions for people to submit their work to.

WikiLeaks Roundatable: Live People’s Conferences will take place regularly.

To submit questions please either tweet a message ending with “#wlquest” or email your question to twlrt@mail.be.

To discuss the conference as it takes place please tweet with the prefix #wldiscuss

You may see all the questions via https://search.twitter.com/search?q=wlquest

and all the discussion via https://search.twitter.com/search?q=wldiscuss

1st Live People’s Conference - February 6th, 2011 - with Julian Assange



In any moment of the human history have we ever had a free media, that wasn’t (or is) dependent of business or private interests?
In any moment have we ever had 100% impartiality information?
Matheus D. Pandolfo, age 15, Brasil

Google based search is serving you search results based on your behaviour?

Behavior based search

Behavior based search

Google assumes that prior searches mirrors the intent of searches and will focus search results based on that assumption. Behavior based search involves a modification of a search result for a query based upon a prior query.

To get the most out of behaviour based search, when we select keywords to optimize for, include longer-tail keywords, common queries by the community of our target audience.

Watch the following Video about Google based Search, in this video interview SEO pioneer and expert Bruce Clay discusses how behaviour based search affects how you need to optimize your website for maximum traffic.



Hot Triggers – the power to change human behaviours!

What is a hot trigger?

BJ Fogg Stanford_University

BJ Fogg Stanford_University

A hot trigger is a call to action that I can act on right away. An example would be a link in my email inbox that calls me to act, like an emails I get from Facebook that tells me that somebody has tagged one of my photos. So what is happening, first I just want check my emails and some minutes later I find myself spending time on a Facebook page looking photos, this behaviour wasn’t planed or let’s better say it was not planned by me, it was planned by some Facebook guys ;-) .

BJ Fogg has mentioned the design mantra:
Put “Hot triggers” in the path of all motivated people!

That’s what you need to do to win in the consumer space, triggering behaviours. Put your message in to the existing path of your target group, existing path would be email inbox, their Facebook news feed, their twitter stream into thing they already doing and you focus on the motivated people.

Facebook has very good systems to change human behaviours; maybe this is even what makes Facebook so successful. BJ Fogg, Director, Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University and author of the book, Mobile Persuasion, spoke at the SES San Francisco 2010 on the topic of social media and its ability to create hot triggers influencing human behavior. BJ Fogg believes that companies must put hot triggers in the path of motivated people in order to effectively compete in the consumer space. BJ studies the growth of Facebook and how the application uses triggers to influence the behavior of its users. BJ also discusses the impact of mobile on society and how it will become the dominant tool to influence human behavior. BJ concludes by discussing some of the publications his lab is producing for 2011.

You can keep track of BJ Fogg’s daily musings on twitter @bjfogg

Here is the video form the SES in San Francisco:





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