About an hour ago a song clicked onto the ipod and I was moved to issue this tweet.
Mr Tinley caught the vibe, which was nice. And it occurred to me that you could run a good pop quiz via twitter. And a second later it dawned on me that it would be no fun because ease of googling would ruin it. Which made me think that it would be nice if all the search engines would switch themselves off for an hour a week so quizzes could happen via twitter. Certainly there'd be revenue lost, massive inconvenience and huge global coordination issues but it'd be nice wouldn't it?
Then, a bit later, I noticed Ben had done it anyway.
Hi Russell. which reminds me that in case you missed it Chris Vallance did a good piece on Broadcasting House a few weeks back on the quiz/google problem.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2008/04/quizzing_and_the_web_on_broadc.shtml
Posted by: Jem Stone (BBC) | April 19, 2008 at 10:59 AM
A few months back I was at one of those corporate offsite team-building thingies. A huge one, the entire marketing department and all the agencies, several hundred people in all. We all were split into teams for various competitions. And one of the activities was a trivia quiz. We were given 20 minutes to come up with the answers to a bunch of obscure questions.
But the organizers clearly hadn't considered the mobile google factor. You could hear the tapping of thumbs all around the room. So, of course, every team got perfect. But there was no actual teambuilding, because the exercise ended up just being people typing frantically on their PDAs rather than talking. It was kind of sad.
On another note, I caught your tweet on Friday as well and have had that song stuck in my head ever since.
Posted by: Jason | April 21, 2008 at 02:00 AM