From today's The New York Times comes word that in some parts of the world, karaoke can be deadly.

Good thing no one told Bill Murray's character in "Lost in Translation"

The marketing guru gives good advice, but it's also just fun to watch his head bobble.  Enjoy here!  

The Superbowl is one of the last gasps of monoculture -- the concept that we're all tuned into the same entertainment experience at the same time.  Anyone who cares about marketing gets kind of giddy about this.  To wit, some very smart folks at Mullen, with an assist from Social Media measurement company Radian6, have created this app, BrandBowl2010, which tracks real-time tweets about the Superbowl advertisers, as well as overall sentiment, and will generate a live ranking.

They explain it nicely here.