Comments on: Media throws itself into April Fool’s Day

By: Kristi

Kristi — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:06:15 +0000

A great piece here about Telstra,

“Telstra has agreed to an operational split of its wholesale and retail arms if it wins the A$4.7 billion (US$3.2 billion) National Broadband Network (NBN) following clandestine talks with Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.

Internet service providers said the move, announced by the telco Tuesday at the Sydney CommsDay conference, will “liberate the telecommunications industry” from exorbitant wholesale access prices and bring access agreements in line with those in the UK and much of Europe. ”

http://www.networkworld.com/ne.....split.html

By: Daily reader — Hoyden About Town

Daily reader — Hoyden About Town — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:55:00 +0000

[...] nineMSN plans to use a slimmer version of its “Buddy” Messenger icon Calculations made on the popular digital cartoon character show it to have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 33 in its current state, meaning Buddy would be clinically obese if it were a real person. Through modifications to the circumference of Buddy’s torso, ninemsn has created a slimmer, more buff version representing someone within a healthy BMI of 23. [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:14:30 +0000

I thought Virgin Blue’s front page advertisement for Kids’ Birthday Flights was inspired.

By: Harold

Harold — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:41:34 +0000

And Leo Burnett Sydney claimed a billion people took part in Earth Hour.

By: Bruce Andrews

Bruce Andrews — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:29:32 +0000

The Western Advocate newspaper in Bathurst NSW features a prominent story on page 3 today – ‘River ripples raise shark theory’ – which includes a photo of a large dorsal fin in the Macquarie River in the middle of town, about an alleged shark sighting by ‘Bathurst resident Cam Raman … ‘.

(Cam Raman … camera man; get it?)

Bathurst is 200 kms inland and 2000 feet above sea level.