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By: Make You Go Hmm: » Hmmcast #2: fools for our lovin’

Make You Go Hmm: » Hmmcast #2: fools for our lovin’ — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:05:47 +0000

[…] Most Hmm-worthy posts from April 1 - April 7, 2006 - Bizarre human body PC case mod (3) [apr 1] - So far the foolers are being foolish (3) [apr 1] - Technorati not picking up most Blogcharm blogs, BC owners mystified (5) [apr 2] - Will the Simpsons movie in 2007 sink Titanic box office record? (2) [apr 2] - Hollywood still treating us like thieves in new release DVD download deal (3) [apr 3] - Wardrobe Malfunction not only in US (3) [apr 4] - I Sold It on Ebay: cool looking store, subpar internet presence (7) [apr 4] - Human time travel really possible before 2100? (1) [apr 5] - *Stop using Alexa for serious traffic analysis (1) [apr 6] - Will it really matter if the PS3 costs more than $500 USD at launch? (7) [apr 6] […]

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:37:23 +0000

Your news for April 1st on April 2nd, Liam?

By: Liam @ Web 2.5 Blog

Liam @ Web 2.5 Blog — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:32:35 +0000

Here’s our news for 1 April…

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:00:58 +0000

Hehe, that is pretty good, trex, thanks for sharing.

By: trex

trex — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:30:55 +0000

I thought this was creative - RIAA + MPAA = MAFIAA:
http://mafiaa.org/

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:35:30 +0000

Good point Gary. Nathan, maybe we should put our heads together and team up on something next year. I bet we could do at least as good as what I saw yesterday. I expected to be fooled but it just never happened.

By: Gary Wisniewski

Gary Wisniewski — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 10:12:59 +0000

The whole April’s fools thing sure was a lame attempt by lots of people.

In fairness, Scoble probably is in a no-win situation. If he blogs about anything which could accidentally be taken seriously, he could step on a lot of toes. There are corporate readers out there who can’t take a joke, even on April 1st.

By: Nathan Weinberg

Nathan Weinberg — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:32:28 +0000

I agree, the silly stuff might be funny, but the point of April Fools is supposed to be to fool people. Next year, I think I’ll have to jump in with some sort of elaborate hoax.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:05:04 +0000

Google Romance is alright, I guess. You agree to allowing contextual advertising throughout your romantic evening

And sure, darkmoon, you can be the backup QB.

By: darkmoon

darkmoon — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:30:57 +0000

It’s been pretty lame so far. I think it’s because people don’t want their readers to go into shock. Truthfully, the only good ones imho has always been things like ThinkGeek. It’s amusing, they’ve always done it, and you know it’s coming. News sources, and tech blogs should quit with the whole humor thing (1) because people depend on them for news and (2) they have really stupid AF posts. I mean come on, the whole job switches? After they claim the whole year how they love their jobs? I’d be more likely to believe that Scoble was doing kinky amateur porn with some of those shots from Naked Conversations photoshopped in. Slashdot is doing the whole kiddy CAPS thing we were talking about before.

It takes a genius to come up with a good joke, etc. Too bad my chemistry professor in college isn’t around. He was good at it, but he was also part of Hackers at MIT. And they’re good with jokes year-around.

I think I’ll join you in armchair quarterbacking. Can I be your backup? haha.