April Fools Jokes

Yesterday was of course April Fools Day, and Twitter was, as usual, awash with information.

However, I felt rather like @mweller when he tweeted: "trouble with April Fools day is I stop believing anything, for fear of looking dumb(er). '2 for 1 offer' - ha, they're not catching me!"

There were a number of April Fools jokes I enjoyed, however:

• This was one of Delicious's popular bookmarks, which I actually tweeted about "Harvard University to go entirely online using their Fully Online Optimized Learning System (FOOLS): http://tinyurl.com/dd4csr"
• @sarahAE tweeted "Another Twitter April Fool in THE  (at least I think it is!) http://tinyurl.com/dz6loc" - the Times Higher had a great piece entitled "Twitter feedback to help Government rate universities" which seemed to have caught some people out
• And there was Slideshare's email telling (everyone) that the views on their slidesets had gone up enormously.  I am sure that everyone then went to check out their slidespace immediately, like I did and found that their slideets hd gained a few 00s!  I know @jaycross did, cos he tweeted: "I fell for SlideShare's April Fool joke. Thought I was a rock star for five minutes. It felt good while it lasted"  (Although as Mashable points out not everyone was that pleased)
  

Great April Fools' lists at Webware and Techcrunch.

What was your favourite April Fools Day joke?

Comments

[Geeta Bose]

Unfortunately (for fortunately :), I was away from Internet access tools yesterday so got to see the jokes today! There was a good one in the Rapid eLearning Blog (http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-mobile-learning/). Enjoyed it today!

[Matthew Gilbert]

Glad you got a kick out of my April Fool's story about Harvard going entirely online! I actually thought up the whole idea just last Thursday, March 26, while driving to one of the schools at which I teach and pulled it all together after teaching a class on March 31. Seems like it was well received, but I secretly hoped it would generate enough buzz that Harvard would have had to put out a press release to discredit it! Looking forward to getting to know you more on Twitter.

[Emmadw]

The Guardian's Twitter one was good. I particularly liked some of the archived tweets.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

[Michael Hanley]

Hi Jane, I put up a post called 'Irish Government to Tax Learners with a "Failure Fee"' whereby the Dept. of Education were proposing to put a one cent levy on learners for every question they answered incorrectly in e-learning courseware.

Given the current economic situation, some commenters here in Ireland seemed to think that it was all too real...

http://elearningcurve.blogspot.com/2009/04/irish-government-to-tax-learners-with.html

Michael
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[Ken Allan]

Kia ora Jane!

I kept a low profile having already been copped in Donald Clark's Plan B post on VAK - not an April 1st post.

@Michael - the only commenter that I saw on your eejit post was me, and I'm neither Irish nor have I been there - would like to visit sometime. Surely the dialect didn't confuse you too much :-) only joking.

Catchya later
from Middle-earth

[Vaporizer]

LOL - even I was one of the victim of slideshare's april fool strategy :-)