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Who killed Amanda Palmer’s career? | adland.tv
Hey, here’s a question. Can anyone out there name one crowdsourced ad that has been good? Well, there’s Silk’s Bukkake Ad! Oh wait. That sucked.
How about The Obama Poster design? Well…that seemed to have gotten bad press, since it was an unpaid solicitation to create a jobs poster.
Why would they be upset? Is it because crowd sourcing is nothing more than a cynical ploy to get free work? Or in the case of at least one ad agency, you actually pay them to work? Is it because asking someone to give up their talents for free, no matter how you spin it, is a shitty thing to do?
Yes indeed. And it’s also why the American Federation of Musicians of the U.S. And Canada have started a petition in the hopes of getting Dresden Doll and singer extraordinaire, Amanda Palmer, to pay her musicians.
Now Leveson wants heretics ‘gagged’ | Mick Hume | spiked
There has been some surprise at the weekend’s reports that Lord Justice Leveson rang Britain’s top civil servant to demand that education secretary Michael Gove be ‘gagged’ in February, after the Tory minister had expressed concern that the Leveson Inquiry into the UK press was creating a ‘chilling atmosphere’ over the media. Surely that nice Mr Leveson would not have done anything so, well, authoritarian?
In fact these reports should not have come as much of a surprise to anybody who has followed what was being said and done at the Leveson Inquiry rather than the fairytale version reported in much of the media – still less to anybody who has followed spiked’s Counter-Leveson Inquiry.
From the first we have argued that the phone-hacking scandal had become a pretext for something far more dangerous. The inquiry is a showtrial of the tabloids, an inquisition designed to purge the popular press and reinforce a conformist orthodoxy across the media. Lord Justice Leveson’s apparent demand that Gove be ‘gagged’ only confirms the inquiry’s mission: to enforce and endorse a ‘chilling atmosphere’ of You Can’t Say That – firstly about the Leveson circus itself.
No, the real surprising question is rather different: why has almost the only prominent public figure to ask any probing questions about the authority of the Leveson Inquiry to rule on the future of a free press been a leading Conservative member of the coalition government that set it up in the first place?
via Now Leveson wants heretics ‘gagged’ | Mick Hume | spiked.
Gardeners’ World Live 2012 – Gardeners’ musings – Blog – gardenersworld.com
For one week each year, the NEC in Birmingham becomes my home as it plays host to BBC Gardeners’ World Live. The event celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, having grown and developed to become one of the most popular occasions in the gardening calendar.
And that’s no surprise, as all the top names in gardening will be there during the five-day show, which runs from Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 June. All the television programme presenters will be attending – Monty Don, Carol Klein, Joe Swift and Rachel de Thame – plus Alan Titchmarsh, Toby Buckland, Anne Swithinbank, Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Biggs and many more.
This year I’m feeling brave and putting myself on the spot, answering any gardening questions our show visitors would like to throw at me in the BBC Gardeners’ World Theatre. Visitors to this website will have seen a regular series we’ve developed over the past few months, in the run-up to the event, called Ask Adam, and now we’re bringing this to life at the show.
via Gardeners’ World Live 2012 – Gardeners’ musings – Blog – gardenersworld.com.
Kate Humble quits Springwatch after seven years | Metro.co.uk
Kate will not be presenting the next series of Springwatch, but former Really Wild Show host Michaela Strachan will join fellow hosts Martin Hughes-Games and Chris Packham on the series.
The BBC said in a statement: ‘We are delighted Michaela will be joining Chris and Martin.’
However, the BBC have insisted Kate could still return to Springwatch and its sister show Autumnwatch in the future.
The explained: ‘Kate is still very much a part of the Springwatch and Autumnwatch team and presented our Winterwatch special last month.’
Kate recently admitted she ‘never’ wanted TV to take over her life and she would happily stop working in the industry if job offers dried up.
She said: ‘TV is a fantastic job but I have never wanted it to be my life. It’s also a job that you have very little control over. It can be all or nothing. At this point I don’t know how my year is going to pan out. That’s exciting, frustrating and nerve-racking.
‘The types of TV I’m being asked to do I’d be an idiot to turn down because it’s wonderful stuff. But if I get to the stage where I’m not being offered that stuff and it’s a choice of being on the telly or on the farm, the farm would win every time.
‘The reality is I’m either not going to want telly or telly is not going to want me. I’m not going to start sobbing into my beer because I’m getting older and old women don’t get on the telly. It’s just a fact.’
via Kate Humble quits Springwatch after seven years | Metro.co.uk.
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Facebook Charging In 2011: Chain Letter Spreads False Rumor (PICTURES)
Is Facebook about to start charging its users to access the social network? No, but a new chain letter making its way across Facebook walls wants you to think so.
This rumor follows Facebook’s recent f8 conference in San Francisco, where the company announced sweeping changes to its Open Graph platform, allowing more sharing than ever before. During the event, Facebook also unveiled a radical new profile layout that will significantly change the look of users’ personal pages.
The chain letter claiming Facebook will begin charging this year alleges that the site must charge its users a fee to pay for the new profile design.
The phony warning reads thus:
IT IS OFFICIAL. IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS. FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES. IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON, IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DO NOT PAY
Take a look at the chain letter, in the form of a Facebook post (below), courtesy of Sophos’s Naked Security blog.
Sophos’s Graham Cluley calls the rumor “poppycock.” Writes Cluley, “Facebook doesn’t need to charge you to use Facebook, it’s making plenty of money already by allowing advertisers to reach its 800 million users.”
We’ve heard similar rumors in the past, all equally untrue. A nearly identical rumor, falsely claiming Facebook would begin charging and deleting free accounts, spread virally on the heels of Facebook’s announcement of a Skype-powered video chat feature.
Whenever doubts arise in users’ minds about whether Facebook will remain free, they have only to check out Facebook’s login page, where the company asserts the following: “It’s free and always will be.”
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Fortunately, the most harm you can do by posting this current rumor is to further misinform your fellow Facebookers. However, scams periodically surface on the social network, and unsuspecting users who fall for them can end up spamming all their friends, or worse. Take a look at the 9 Facebook scams to watch out for (below), a slideshow which originally appeared here.
Clickjackers on Facebook entice users to copy and paste text into their browser bar by posting too-good-to-be-true offers and eye-catching headlines. Once the user infects his own computer with the malicious code, the clickjackers can take control of his account, spam his friends and further spread their scam. For example, clickjacking schemes hit Facebook soon after bin Laden’s death and spread like wildfire by purporting to offer users a glimpse at video or photos of bin Laden’s death.
Clickjackers on Facebook entice users to copy and paste text into their browser bar by posting too-good-to-be-true offers and eye-catching headlines. Once the user infects his own computer with the malicious code, the clickjackers can take control of his account, spam his friends and further spread their scam. For example, clickjacking schemes hit Facebook soon after bin Laden’s death and spread like wildfire by purporting to offer users a glimpse at video or photos of bin Laden’s death.
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GPS Tracking: Supreme Court Debates Privacy Limits On Police
WASHINGTON — The justices appear poised to go big or go home when it comes to protecting privacy rights against digital intrusion.
Antoine Jones, a nightclub owner in Washington, D.C., is challenging his conviction for drug trafficking, asserting that the police violated his Fourth Amendment rights when, without a valid warrant or his consent, officers placed a GPS device on his car to track his movements on public streets. In taking United States v. Jones, the Supreme Court signaled its interest in seriously revisiting — and , after almost three decades — the question of whether advances in technology alter an individual’s reasonable expectation of privacy.
During oral argument Tuesday morning, Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Michael Dreeben argued that the GPS-assisted, 24-hour surveillance of Jones by the police over the course of 28 days was no different than the rudimentary tracking by beeper that the Court blessed in a 1983 decision.
“That was 30 years ago,” said Chief Justice John Roberts, who was the first of nearly all his colleagues to express deep doubts about the government’s argument. Advances in technology have allowed police to go from actively listening to a beeper as a helicopter follows the suspect’s car from above to being able “to just sit back in the station and push a button whenever they want to find out where the car is,” the chief stated. “That seems to me dramatically different.”
via GPS Tracking: Supreme Court Debates Privacy Limits On Police.
Here’s Why The Internet Crashed For 10 Seconds Yesterday
A bug in a Juniper router firmware update caused a huge crash that took the Time Warner Cable customers across the country off the internet for a little while on Monday, according to reports on Twitter and other sites.
The Internet went down for Time Warner Cable customers across the country for around 10 to 15 seconds yesterday. Time Warner quickly issued an apology to its customers over Twitter after the brief downtime.
via Here’s Why The Internet Crashed For 10 Seconds Yesterday.
It Is Not Safe to Break Up in a Burger King Any More
Web developer Andy Boyle was hanging out in a Burger King when he overheard a married couple having an argument that “Aaron Sorkin couldn’t write… any better.” So he live-tweeted the whole thing, with extensive multimedia.
Check it out. It is an impressive piece of eavesdropping! And also a terrifying example of crowd-sourced surveillance. From now on, it’s best to activate a portable cell phone scrambler to stymie any nearby Twitter users whenever you’re going to have embarrassing personal conversations in public.
