With exactly a month remaining before Web Directions South 2007 starts, I thought I’d have some fun on the fact that there’s always seemingly more cameras than actual people at these conferences, by starting a fun photo meme…

The object of this meme is to browse Flickr for photographic evidence that you’ve been to previous years of Web Directions, and link to as many of these offending images as you can.

The funnier (or dodgier) the photo, the better.

Once you’ve done this, you then need to encourage three others to do the same. How? Well, by linking to their photos of course. Sorry fellow West Coast Bloggers, Myles, Nick and Kay, I hope you’ll play?

Image: Charger Tyre & Sky, Perth Airport.

It seems that the secret to driving traffic to your blog, is to target other blogs visitors, and then seed your adwords campaign in a way that your ad will show on their blog.

This is possibly the funniest use of Adwords I have seen to date. Look closely at the right hand side of the above screen grab from www.problogger.net. See the ad pointing visitors to www.johnchow.com? Well, it gets even better. When you click on that ad, you get taken to www.johnchow.com, only to find another Adwords ad, as per the below graphic.

This advertisement, folks, points through to www.baron.vc. This blogger then has a post mentioning John Chow, as per the next screen grab.

Shame that there were no Adsense blocks on the main page of this blog, otherwise I may have been tempted to do something crazy using my own Adwords campaigns. Is this a pay-per-click version of the old ‘web ring’ which was very popular in the nineties?

Images: Screengrabs from three blogs.

The crew at Bam Creative thought we’d get in early this year, and do our annual silly electronic christmas card thing. 426 business cards, 500 photos and a few hours later, here it is.

Merry Christmas to everyone – let’s hope it’s a safe one, and the year to come is great.

Photo: Close up of my business cards.