What on earth has happened to the office of our colleagues at Vanksen? To promote the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg they had the goodidea.lu to prepare a campaign that is bright pink and very “polite” at the same time.

To be polite, the first thing you have to do is say “Hello” in the local language. In Luxembourg you say “Moien”.

Good intentions everywhere. Our friends at Vanksen have been preaching Luxemburgish politeness for more than a week now, to everyone who wanted to hear it and especially ON everything that would stand still long enough.

It’s not only our colleagues who have started to greet everyone with “Moien”, but every corner of our office has gone polite: computer screens, elevators, cupboards…

Event the lavatory doors say hello now!

You can find more polite pictures on our BuzzParadise Flickr .

So, the next time someone talks to you in the street, you know what to answer…

One of the creators of advertising rules explains that for an advert to work properly, you should not or at least not completely reveal its object, in order to arouse the spectators’ curiosity and make them want to see more.
Hitchcock knew this when he used the same principle to inspire fear.

The authors of Rec, a Spanish horror movie, also use this theory to promote their teaser. It has been available for a while now and has been posted on quite a number of blogs already. It does not show the film, only its spectators. Impressive, to say the least.

[REC.] Trailer and audience reaction
Uploaded by BriKO

Still, it is not yet possible to say if we are dealing with a new masterpiece or another stupid, gory horror movie.
The story at least is insignificant: A Barcelona-based unit of fire-fighters find themselves shut into a strange building after having gone there following to call for help…

We will have to wait until April 2008 to know more.

Dear BuzzAngels,

The times are hard. The world is going down the drain. The price for the barrel petrol keeps rising, unemployment rates are not sinking, the competitiveness of our companies is undermined by fast developing Asian countries.

At BuzzParadise we have decided to react by launching an appeal to the governments of the world.

Some statistics are really depressing. Facebook, the website everyone is talking about, is the cause of companies’ productivity losses worth 3.4 billion dollars!

But we have found the solution to relaunch economic growth. See for yourself!

Let’s ban Facebook!

Yes, dear BuzzAngels, it’s all the fault of Facebook! If we want to get somewhere, we have to do more work and less facebooking. That’s why we have created a group on Facebook to raise the awareness of facebookers throughout the world of the necessity to relaunch economic growth and productivity in our companies… by banning Facebook at work.

You can participate, too! Join our group on Facebook!

Source : FranckPerrier.com

After a tiring working week, a viral video is great for relaxing. This one is from India and reminds us to always use a condom for sexual intercourse. A great ad!

A truly Indian buzz. What do you think?

While the BuzzParadise community is growing, we have been thinking that it is about time to spotlight one of our BuzzAngels every month. Not to establish a ranking, just to present our (subjective) favourite blogger of the month.

After long deliberations we have chosen Alyse Wax of Sporkfashion.com to be the “Trendy BuzzAngel” of the month. Each month, we will announce our favorite blogger in preview in our newsletter and deliver the entire interview on our blog.

Alyse is speaking

- How old are you?
27

- Where do you com from?

Born and raised in Los Angeles

- What do you do?

Besides writing, I am a TV producer. Some of my credits include “Big Brother,” “Hell’s Kitchen,” and “Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End.”

- When did you start blogging?

Off and on for years with personal sites, but with SporkFashion.com, since May 2006.

- Why did you start blogging? What does blogging give you in daily life?

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