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The Guhmshoo Gallery

by Andrew on June 15, 2009

Welcome to the Guhmshoo Gallery. I've archived all my toons here (in reverse-chronological order). Feel free to share with your friends, colleagues, and loved ones, and post them on your websites and blogs. A wise ass once told me that "humor is  subjective as hell," so I won't be offended if you don't get it. That said, I'm guessing you'll get a chuckle from at least one of them.

  • Corp. Communications at Twitter - Twitter get's a new PR guy. What will be his first task?
  • PR at CES - Exciting show, boring PR.
  • Santa's Modern Workshops - Santa pines for the old days.
  • Two Facebook - Facebook gets hammered (again) on its new privacy policy.
  • Dumbfounding predictions - Killer predictions for 2010 that will change your life forever.
  • Maclaren Does Tommy Flannagan - Maclaren creates a media storm but CEO says he didn't know. Yeah, that's the ticket...
  • Embargo Insanity - Lose the embargo and it will save lives.
  • Reporter Hats - Thanks to a dying media, journalists are experts in nothing.
  • Laws - The FTC's bark is worse than its bite.
  • Old Media - Ah. There's nothing like the smell of burning newspaper in the morning.
  • New Business Card - Seth Godin launched Brands In Public, so it's only fitting that he have a new business card.
  • Boeing Discovers Blogs - It's hard to believe that a company that builds some of the world's most sophisticated airplanes is just now making use of a blog to help sell its planes.
  • HARO Family Tree - Peter Shankman's HARO keeps growing, but who is REALLY calling the shots. Hint: Karma and NASA are Peter's cats.
  • Swine Flu Ad Campaign - Pigs are back in the spotlight as the swine flu season begins.
  • PR-Gatory - Brody PR mass pitches influential social media types and suffers their wrath. Oops!
  • Law Enforcement 2.0 - I did this special edition toon in honor of Chris Brogan's new book "Trust Agents." Yep, that's the kind of guy I am.
  • The World Sans Twitter - Twitter suffers a denial-of-service attack giving everyone a brief moment to see the world the way it really is.
  • Wiping the slate clean - Michael Arrington of TechCrunch loses a libel suit filed by UK resident Sam Sethi. Arrington argued that the UK courts have no jurisdiction in the US and elected not to defend the case. The UK courts thought differently.
  • Link Bait - The City of Portland with a $90 million budget wants you to redesign their website for free. What you get: a name credit link on every page. Oooh!
  • Marked Men at TechCrunch - TechCrunch tries to do the right thing regarding the stolen Twitter files but no one seems to care.
  • Twitter's Un-Safe - Hacker gains access to secret Twitter documents because of easy-to-figure-out passwords and weak security. Time to change the combo on the Twitter vault guys.
  • Echo Chamber in the Alps - The echo chamber keeps spreading from the blogosphere to the twittersphere and yes, even to the...
  • Happy Dependence Day! - No explanation needed. Appeared on Mashable too.
  • Head in the Clouds - Special order toon for Dennis Howlett at ZDNet about cloud computing.
  • Our Tax Dollars at Work - The FTC wants to regulate bloggers. Good luck getting them to pay their fines.
  • The Media's New Keyboard - The latest recipe for news. Just add Twitter.
  • The Twitterverse - According to a recent Harvard study, "The top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets." These users have a special place in the Twitterverse.
  • Reverse Engineer Fail - Peter Shankman's Help a Reporter Out (HARO) is a huge success. As expected, people are trying to replicate it and divert some of his traffic. But the success of HARO is due in large part to Shankman himself. Good luck trying to copy that!
  • Microsoft vs. Google Launches - Microsoft launched Bing, but Google Wave stole its thunder.
  • Lookin' for some hot stuff - WolframAlpha launched and everyone fell instantly in love. At least for now.
  • Creative Writing - New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd gets busted for plagiarism--but was this the first time?
  • Content Thieves - The newspapers blame Google for stealing their content.
  • How Pandemics Spread - What spreads faster? Swine flu or people re-Tweeting news about it?
  • This Space for Rent - Sponsored bloggers and what they might look like in the future.
  • Dime a Dozen - Everyone claims to be "social media expert" these days, rendering the term meaningless. But they still have a purpose.
  • Twitter Gets a New Look - Ashton Kutcher and Oprah join Twitter, and Twitter rushes to accommodate their every desire.
  • Amazon's New 1 Click - GLBT books are removed from Amazon sales ranking, causing a major uproar on Twitter and blogs. They called it a "glitch" caused by a Frenchman. Hmm...
  • Introducing the New Fiesta - Ford launches the Fiesta Movement and pins its success on 100 loquacious social media types.
  • Guy Interviews Casper (the friendly Ghost) - Guy admits he hires people to Twitter on his behalf (aka "ghost Twittering").
  • Education 2.0 - Britain announces that it will start offering classes in social media as part of its official primary school curriculum.
  • Poetic Justice - John Mayer would rather Tweet than spend time with hot girlfriend Jennifer Aniston. Aniston dumps Mayer.
  • Ev's Baby in Utero - Evan Williams (Twitter founder) shares (via Twitter, of course) that wife is pregnant with their first child.
  • John McCain Meets Twitter - George Stephanopoulos conducts an interview via Twitter with super tech-unsavvy John McCain.
  • Social Media One-Night Stands - Hand-picked digerati visit P&G HQ and then are forced to shill for Tide. Also see: Digerati Visit P&G HQ
  • SXSW from Space - What happens when digerati descend on Austin, overload Wi-Fi and plug into all available outlets.
  • Facebook's New Terms of Service - Facebook clandestinely alters its TOS (terms of service), claiming it now owns all of your FB content, causing major PR crisis. Later, Facebook reverses course and says they are all about transparency from now on. Also see: Facebook's New Transparency.
  • Fact-Checking at Techcrunch - While Arrington takes a vacation, TechCrunch editorial standards get criticized.
  • Arrington Takes Time Off - Arrington gets spat on in public and decides to disappear to a place supposedly free from harassment.
  • Twitter TMI - Unfortunately, people feel the need these days to Twitter about the sickest things.
  • Fail Whale Therapy - In the early days of Twitter, people hated the Fail Whale. But did anyone care about how the Fail Whale felt?
  • Loren Sees the Light - Loren Feldman of 1938media tricks everyone into believing he has changed his ways and become your best friend. Yeah, right.
  • Study Hall - Chris Heuer, Social Media Club founder, forms the pretentious Ad Hocnium consulting collective which includes some of the Web's top minds or "catalysts" as he calls them. But can anyone pronounce or spell it?
  • State of the Spheres - The explosion of the blogosphere and Twittersphere begin to smother the atmosphere.
  • Death to the Embargo - TechCrunch announces it will no longer honor news embargoes from anyone. Well, except for companies like Microsoft and Google and Yahoo and...
  • LeWeb Meets Survivor - LeWeb conference gets blasted for poor Internet connectivity, freezing room temperatures, and, unconscionably, a lack of snacks.
  • Canine E-Mail - What? You think humans are the only ones with email?
  • Santa's Costly Tweet - Holiday toon about Qwitter application, which allows people to see who unfollows them on Twitter and why.
  • Working for Abrams Research - Dan Abrams, chief legal correspondent for MSNBC, starts his own PR firm and hires journalists as consultants. Ethics issue? Nah.
  • The Motrin Distraction - Mommy bloggers enraged by Pfizer's Motrin ad campaign ignore their kids so they can Twitter and blog all day about it.
  • TechCrunch vs. PR - Arrington sends a cryptic Tweet declaring war on PR firms sometime in the near future. PR firms strike back in the only way they know how.
  • Cafe PRNewswire - Why would anyone want to eat there?
  • Collection Time for Twitter - How will Twitter make money? Find out here.
  • Neo (of "The Matrix") Meets His Match - Brian Solis is so smart its scary. Run, Neo, run!
  • Social Media Measurement - Easy to measure: social media consulting fee income. Harder to measure: social media.
  • Modern Newsrooms - Anyone can be a citizen journalist. I mean anyone.
  • Day One @ the Dept. of Gov't 2.0 - Are you sure we should be encouraging the government use Facebook and Twitter?
  • Social Media Release Achilles Heel - PR tools (i.e., hardware) are only as good as the tools (i.e., software/PR people) who use/power them.
  • Social Media Becomes a Liability - This could happen to you.
  • How Media Use Press Releases - PRNewswire issues a self-serving study that claims that journalists use their press releases more than those of their competitors. It's true.
  • PRNewswire Hitmen - Profnet killer Peter Shankman gets invited to speak at a PRNewswire conference. They try to assassinate him.
  • PRSA on Ethics - Public Relations Society of America encourages political campaigns to uphold the highest ethical standards in their communications. Hmm.
  • Social Media Enforcement Agency - Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb writes a post about how to use social media to reach people who don't use social media. Here's one way.
  • Brogan: The Early Years - Chris Brogan is a great listener. But sometimes being a great listener doesn't help get chicks.
  • BadPitch Crime Fighters - If anyone deserves superhero crime-fighting skills, it's the folks over at BadPitchBlog.
  • Works of Great Length - Brian Solis may be the smartest person in the Twitterverse, but he's also the longest-blog writer in the Twitterverse.
  • Body by Strumpette - Heard of Amanda Chapel? She slays people in the Twitterverse everyday. But sometimes she uses her powers for good. Here's how she motivates Jason Falls and Geoff Livingston toward better health.
  • Making Amends - When Peter Shankman launched Help a Reporter Out,  PRNewswire's Profnet responded aggressively. Words were exchanged, but it all worked out in the end. Or did it?
  • PR Is Dead - If I had a dollar for every time someone announced the death of PR, I would be a ...
  • Web 2.0 Spying - Let me get this straight. The government needs a court order to find out what you're up to, but Twitter lures you into giving that information out freely. Genius.
  • Web 2.0 Pick up Joints and Web 2.0 Come-ons - My first two cartoons ever. No explanation needed.

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