I’m not sure where this originated from (it’s all over the web today), but I thought it was hilarious (and I had been thinking that Prince William looked like he was in The Princess Diaries!)…
Now, if you want to buy Princess Beatrice’s notorious hat, you can bid for it on ebay, current price £5000, all proceeds to charity… good on her for making good use of the notoriety of that hat!
Nice find from the Royal Wedding.
Read the story here. An extract:
I start with the obvious. Memorabilia primarily serves as an aid to remembering. I start here because memorabilia is often judged as being aesthetically deficient, which then levies judgment upon the person who purchased the item. Rather, an item’s capacity to call up memories of an event, a shared moment, or a life-changing experience is surely its purpose and how it should be considered. For example, the screen-printed tea towel that I now own will not only remind me of the day of the Royal Wedding in years to come. It will also serve to conjure up memories of friends and my overall experience of being at St Andrews. Secondly, memorabilia provides a means by which we can intentionally make a claim on a particular memory or experience. The decision to purchase memorabilia is an intentional decision to remember the moment attached to the item. Perhaps we are just victims of good marketing in our purchasing. Or perhaps good marketers realise that we want to remember our good experiences and they have capitalised on those moments.
Did you get involved with the Royal Wedding? I saw a lot of people who had avowed that they weren’t going to get involved, vigorously tweeting & Facebooking about the event, and I watched much more of it than I anticipated, and went to a garden party in the afternoon! The social media available was credited with allowing much attention, and the Royal couple themselves appeared to have embraced it, announcing their engagement on Twitter!
Facebook tends to be touted as the most influential place (all those friendship links), but the buzz was all coming from Twitter (but then it is designed for that kind of story – you’ll annoy all your Facebook friends if you constantly update your status every 5 seconds…), which of course is an open platform (whereas Facebook should be behind a privacy wall)… although blogs also are open, but not so immediate:
Image courtesy of webtrends
Traditional Media was having their fair share of the fun, both here in the UK, and in the States:
Check out Mashable talking about the Meme of the ‘Frowning Flower Girl’, Grace Van-Cutsem!