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Posted 1 month ago
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“You get to know every detail, you get to know, in a way, more intimate details about their life than any person that they talk to because often people will confide in the internet as they find their way through medical websites … or as an adolescent finds their way through a website about homosexuality, wondering what they are and whether they should talk to people about it.” —Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee on the UK government’s controversial plans to allow intelligence agencies to monitor the internet use and digital communications of every person in the UK - social media, Skype calls and email communication as well as logging every site visited by internet users in Britain - and of course, reading all the draft messages in your email app, ie. your plans for world domination, your diary about dying of cancer without informing your family members. Not to mention what groceries you buy, what books you read, what movies you watch, who your friends are, what you talk with them about, where you are right now, where your girlfriend is, what kind of sex you like, what your girlfriend looks like (naked), what she had for dinner, who she’s having an affair with, what you are most afraid of, whose child it really is, when is the best time to nab you, and how to use your mental health history to dismiss allegations of extraordinary rendition.
In other words, the government wants to know more about you than you do. Is it too much to ask?
In other words, “Everybody off the internet. The internet is now closing.”
(Source: Guardian)
Posted 2 months ago
Economy of attention in effect: I notice if a film I want to watch is not immediately available to download, the attention required to make it happen in the future means just forgetting about it.
The implications are not insignificant. Some might dismiss my behaviour as instant gratification. I think the attentive cost of arranging a viewing in the future simply becomes too expensive. Amazon Wish Lists and email reminders have ultimately been ineffective and time-consuming. Film marketing today is the bit that gets you to press the download button. It is practiced by the former audience.
Posted 4 months ago
With SOPA, Garfield minus Garfield would probably have never happened. Protest SOPA.
Posted 5 months ago
The US is currently considering an internet copyright law which is so out of touch with reality that I can’t quite believe it. Watch the video to find out about the ludicrous new proposals.
Then consider this: digital media is fundamentally incompatible with selling content. It’s a matter of physics.
US media corporations want to change the internet and copyright to avoid changing outmoded business models from the analog era! The business models from the mass media age are the result of exploiting analog noise. This meant that every time you made a copy of anything, the quality went down. In the mass media age, copying was not an option for most people. And copies of copies degraded very quickly. And since it was analog, the machine you use to play the media was completely different from the machines used to make and publish the media.
This business model of selling content is fundamentally incompatible with 21st century telecommunications technology. Today everyone has the means of production and global distribution in their laps. Now we have computers and networks, ie. digital media. Computers work by copying. Perfectly. Everything a computer does is based on copying. Opening a file copies it to RAM. Saving a file copies it to a disk. Copy copies. Cut copies to RAM so you can Paste a perfect copy somewhere else. Publishing is copying. Sharing is copying. Even viewing is copying. Everything is copying. Perfectly. There is no noise. Every copy is an exact clone of the original.
And of this digital world we share, Hollywood demands only one thing: no copying!!
So how does the ‘selling content’ business model adapt? Apple developed one small innovation: for the user, buying has to be more convenient than getting it free. It’s a tiny change in emphasis, but it’s also the very first suggestion of a digital business model for selling content.
But not content with the idea of innovating, the mass media corporations instead now demand lordship of the internet, the engine of the economy, by bribe and decree. WTF?
Posted 7 months ago
More people watch internet video than use Facebook
(Statistics always seem to be winking at me ;-)
Posted 1 year ago
Marketer, do like Obama: don’t market | Umair Haque
There’s better things that communications can do than just market to people. Things like co-create with people, because that’s what the Obama campaign was about: co-creating a entire political campaign WITH people, instead of marketing a political candidate TO people.
(Source: youtube.com)
Posted 1 year ago
Teaser for hotly anticipated doc PressPausePlay. What’s more fun than letting someone inspire you?
(Source: youtube.com)
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