Tag: John
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R for Revolution
(photo from Cape Town Million Mask March – can’t find the photographer) Amazed how off the ball the mainstream media was about the Million Mask March – I wasn’t in the loop (not a surprise, I’ve weaned myself off fast-news cycles and aren’t following as many Occupy/Anon feeds as I was a few years back),…
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Aaron Smith
As an ex-artist (well certainly in the traditional sense; John quite rightly said you can’t train to be an artist) you tend to be critical of art you see, it either falls into the camp of ‘I could do that, why should I buy it?’ or ‘I can’t do that’. Certainly in the latter case…
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Everything is a Remix
Dunno how I missed Everything is a Remix series on copyright and ideas by Kirby Ferguson – especially the last episode which spells out some of the big issues for copyright and IP law (and also includes The Kleptones in it!). With the world in need of good ideas how to stop climate change, how…
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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…
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OccupyLSX – Dreamers and the Drainage?
Just come back from an interesting 3 hours spent at the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp in front of St Pauls. Surprisingly the police presence was really chilled, relaxed and small, I think the fact that the Canon of St Paul’s had told them to back off is a big reason for that. It’s church…
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International Roaming
While sorting out mobile roaming for the trip to Italy (myself and John 1 are going to Milan and venice, hella expensive but what the fuck) was thinking about state & corporates vs individuals…which inspired a thought about the shift from local to global. Vodafone says it’s not British and off-shore so gets away with…