Earl Mardle writes about New Zealand’s proposals to black out alleged copyright infringers – the idea is to cut off their access on the mere accusation of illegal downloading. It sounds draconian and Canute-like.
Still reading Earl’s analysis of how this might work in practice I feel heartened in my view that these bits of centralised silliness will unravel very quickly in the face of intelligent insubordination.
And nice work by kiwis protesting by blacking out their pictures.
Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is
The competitive streak in me means I need to keep with Tony Goodson’s blog. The struggles of learning to speak “Movable Type” and thoughts on the nature of blogging.
Earlier today I was writing about passion brands and the power of community. I got a small but interesting example of this principle in action when I visited Ton Zijltra’s blog to find that he’s opened a separate blog on his planned abandonment of Microsoft.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
My friend Olaf Brugman has invited me to take part in a workshop in Brussels on October 29th. It looks set to be an interesting
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs
At the NGO conference (blogged yeserday and the day before) I met Martin Roell a German blogger and e-business guru. He’s blogged the event in
I’ve finally started paying attention to RSS and all this stuff about “Blog Aggregators”. The final shove was wanting to get Martin Roell’s English feed.
Rob Paterson has a great post about simplicity the complicated and the complex. This is what Emergence looks like. It is the result of a powerful but simple equation being
Jennifer Rice by way of Seth Godin pointed me to Media attention brings a bevy of baldies to Lodi restaurant. A restaurant gets oodles of publicity with a discount for
I’m going to be co-hosting (with John Winsor) the first Brandshift Show a podcast linked the corresponding blog. We’re aiming to record on February 24th, and the theme is going
I’m continuing to have thoughts in response to reading Herd probably because Mark Earls’ position so often reverberates with mine. There’s nothing like having one’s prejudices supported. Like me Mark
