Tag: the Guardian
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Emotional campaigns and propaganda – StopKony and bulfighters
Shortly after I posted the StopKony video, when I looked further into it I started to feel a little queasy…as documented in that post and on the Guardian and many other places including this infographic, Ugandans as well as people who work on the ground in Northern Uganda have questioned the approach from Invisible Children,…
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RadioClashBlog & MutantPop support Wikileaks
(artwork donated by the wonderful people at DeviantArt ~daihaa-wyrd) Whatever you think about Julian Assange and what’s happening to him, it’s just as important to keep Wikileaks online and free from attack as part of the fallout of the Cablegate saga. I’ve setup two subdomain redirects – wikileaks.mutantpop.net and wikileaks.radioclash.com – or use the IP…
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Hackgate – our Watergate?
Well maybe there isn’t a more direct connection to Cameron to fully support a PM toppling move yet, but if one were to be proved… You already have phone hacking, lies, chief spin person to David Cameron who used to be editor at a paper full of unethical journalists who say Andy Coulson knew what…
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Elections?
(Jeremy Deller) (Bob and Roberta Smith, Mark Wallinger) Yes there’s an election on and I love these alternative artist’s election posters via the Guardian. Vote how you want as long as it’s not Tory (yes I’m biased, as you can see from this selection) – because as they on occasion accidentally drop the guard and…
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Greedy Apple
One thing that irks me about Apple (only one thing? everyone cries, well the ones reading my blogs anyways!) is that they like to be portrayed as the victim, the lone tiny company against a world of big blue corporates. Especially when journalists cover news stories about Apple. Well I have news for you –…
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Andrew Keen RSA lecture
I went to a lecture and discussion called ‘The Digital Seduction’ at Royal Society of Arts last night. Speaking was Andrew Keen, author of ‘The Cult of the Amateur’ and Tim Montgomery, editor of ConservativeHome.com (I am SO not linking that), and humorously chaired by Matthew Taylor, RSA Chief Executive. There’s been a lot of…