I'd Follow Your Tweets If I Wasn't a Stupid American

I will generally follow a follower, unless they are an obvious marketer or Demon Spam Rat. But in the past few days, I've been followed by people who tweet in German, Spanish and Japanese, none of which I can read.

Time for Rosetta Stone.

Still Selling Romance - Only Weirder

Rosetta Stone, the "learn a new language really fast" software, has long relied on the stock image of a Swedish/French/German/Something woman who gazes into the camera, enticing world travelers to get to know her better by mangling her native language, whatever that might be. (She's still the homepage image on their site.)


In today's NYT was this new angle, featuring a homely farmboy getting ready to meet an Italian supermodel. Implausible? Yes. Funny? Yes. Effective? We'll see.