Tag: Telecommunications
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Every COVID-19 Ad Is The SAME
In a classic case of ‘Corona Ate My Ideas’ from agencies worldwide, Microsoft Sam put together this supercut of COVID-19 related commercials in the US and Canada. Very spookily similar, and rather manipulative and stale in messaging. Together! Together! Together! Home! Home! Home! It’s almost like a Negativland track. And if I was still working…
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New Promos
Promo whoring! I’ve recorded a few new promos – so if you have a podcast, radio or TV station, pirate satellite, shortwave numbers station, morse code repeater, kinetograph, spare zoetrope or magic lantern show, please give me a plug! And it’s all my own music and copyright, so no legal issues there – don’t want…
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Privacy invasion
We seem to be getting used to privacy invasion and sharing information online, apps etc (even people stupidly posting their credit/debit cards online – FAIL) but I was astounded when I asked why my new Samsung Galaxy S3, top of the range cannot work properly with my Mac. You plug it in and it sees…
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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…
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Free Radio – Pirate Low Power FM
Thanks to Brian Greene for directing me to Free Radio (over an argument over the term Pirate Radio vs Free Radio) – I had heard about Free Radio Berkeley but didn’t know they had a site, and were still going teaching people how to make their own transmitters. You see Pump up the Volume wasn’t…
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I guess you have to Be There…
Hey I have a deal for you – if you’re thinking of switching to Be Un limited ADSL2 in the UK (upto 24Meg broadband!), let me know and I’ll refer you, saving you the connection fee (24 quid!). I have 6 friend slots to give out, so hurry… I’ve been using Be for a long…