http://coolintl.com Digital Media for Creative Communications Professionals Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:00:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everybody take a seat in the auditorium. Turn off all phones, smart phones and any other distractions. No drinking or eating, with the possible exception of water and glucose tablets for diabetics in the audience. No talking. No texting – well you already turned of your devices, right? In any ... http://coolintl.com/how-to-start-a-new-media-conversation/ Life in a day is a historic global experiment to create a user generated feature film documenting a single day on earth.  On July 24, 2010, people around the world captured a glimpse of their lives on camera and uploaded the footage to YouTube and others submitted it via SD ... http://coolintl.com/life-in-a-day/ Old computers never die, they just lose their chips, or relevance as the case may be. It was 1988 when computer scientist Mark Weiser realized that the personal computer, which was at that time still in its youthful years, was headed for obsolescence. His crystal ball revealed a digital future ... http://coolintl.com/the-pc-is-almost-over/ http://coolintl.com/behold-the-power-of-the-sponge/ In yet another strange development in the world of gaming, none other than Nintendo has devised a game where real men date fake women but pay real money for the privilege. Okay so lots of men are thinking – so what. They have experienced all kinds of fake women on ... http://coolintl.com/fake-date-real-expenses/ While businesses spend time and money on Search Engine Optimization, Google is behind the scenes optimizing its search engine. For Google, it’s not so much about the results any given search yields but more about whether Googlers get the results they were searching for, and the ease of use of ... http://coolintl.com/google-searches-for-better-results/ However much we may claim to be self-deprecating, it seems that we humans don’t want to be portrayed in anything other than our best form. But somewhere in California, a group of officials neglected to attend to this basic fact of the human personality when they allocated money for a ... http://coolintl.com/the-waning-of-aloha-spirit/ It was discontinued in 1998 but by then it had been around for more than 14 years. And now those who are fans of source code can visit the original MacPaint program because Apple donated it to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Nowadays there are numerous digital ... http://coolintl.com/remembering-macpaint/ Jerry Seinfeld jokes that most people at a funeral, faced with the choice of either being the body in the coffin or the live person giving the eulogy, would choose – the coffin? This sad state of affairs is due to the fact that most people are deathly afraid of ... http://coolintl.com/how-to-wow/ It's not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, it's the size of the fight in the dog. http://coolintl.com/the-size-of-the-fight-in-the-dog/