Posts Tagged ‘medicine’

This fortnight in Online Insights we discover a territorial wine lover (is there any other kind), a twitter event that should raise a titter or two, a bit of nostalgia from shopping centres of yesteryear, check in for the disease of the week.

Twandup10, huh?

Firstly, I won’t be reviewing the Adelaide Fringe for the first time in a decade because I will be busy travelling about with my Web 2.0 workshops for small business. So, I am a little out of the loop this year on what’s hot and what’s not, however, my replacement, George Inglis will be the man to follow. If he gets his fingers to a keyboard, we have even agreed to cross post his reviews on my site where most of my past reviews are published.

But one show that has caught my attention is a social media experiment called Twandup10. Interpreted, that means Stand Up Comedy on Twitter in 2010. The deal is simple, from 8pm til 8.30pm on Monday, February 22, 2010, (Central Australian Summer Time) a number of twingetwits (Fringe Twits) will perform standup style tweet comedy. It will be a free, online event, perfectly timed to fill the quietest night on the Fringe calendar, Monday night.

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Beer Wars Movie

I talk a lot about wine so I thought I would balance the books here by mentioning this novel event that took place in America last week. A documentary about the US beer market and the battle between small breweries and the big breweries was released and screened in cinemas for one night only.

They actually beamed it in to 440 cinemas live and then held a live panel discussion with the movie maker, Anat Baron, and representatives from the different sides.

According to the publicity, ” n America, size matters. The bigger you are, the more power you Read the rest of this entry »