Tag: Internet
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A Sacco Offense: Gawking, Trolling and seeing Red(dit)
Great video about shaming and Justine Sacco from Jon Ronson. I was online that night and felt the same as he did, the unease at the online mob, and actually I did post about it, defending her as not being malicious – note I didn’t mention her initially by name. I didn’t need to, every…
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Upvoting and democracy
As an extension of my recent politics rant, this excellent Ideas Channel video sums up some of the problems I have, not only with like/crowdsourcing but also democracy in question. I mean, ask Sokrates about how the whole ‘going against the grain’ thing worked, and he was a ‘content creator’ and ‘super-user’ and probably ‘redditor’…
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Steve Albini faces up to the music industry (again)
Great if long video / transcript of Steve Albini’s speech at Face The Music in Melbourne which echoes his classic ‘The Problem With Music’ from 21 years ago. Although I’d not describe Prince’s music as ‘poison’ I do think the purple dwarf’s attitude to the internet is poisonous, and all the people who try and…
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YTP It’s All Right Here At Your Fingertits
A very rude YouTube Poop editing that old Internet VHS guide that was posted a while back. Love the Internet Dream Sequence bit…Internet….internet….
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Priceless – spammer posts dataset
In what has to be a classic act, a spammer on one of my sites has accidentally posted most if not all of the dataset in creating their spams. In one sense it makes a strange kind of poetry, a choose-your-own fiction for the 21st century. You can see the logic in how they slightly…
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Calling out RIAA and MPAA lies over SOPA & PIPA
Or to use their term ‘misinformation’. Really the RIAA and MPAA don’t seem to know when to lick their wounds and give it a rest, judging by their petty and frankly wrong response to the successful Internet Blackout and actions by Wikipedia and Google – so it’s nice to see Techdirt calling them out line…