I want a wall just so I can hang this beauty. (via Peter Madden - Ryan Renshaw Gallery and @boingboing)
The Internets were right. @neilhimself gave a smart, charming, all round awesome speech.
How awesome was Neil Gaiman’s UArts Commencement speech? It was this awesome.
“The open web is full of spam, shady operators and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high-quality sites, most of the web is chock full of pop-up ads and other interruptive come-ons.
“It’s nearly impossible to find a signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap. In the curated gardens of places like Apple and Facebook, the weeds are kept to a minimum, and the user experience is just … better.”
Storing the cultural works of the 20th century in the (unlikely) event of a digital disaster. I think it’s a great idea, have always admired what Brewster Kahle’s done. I guess someone’s got to do it. Be prepared!
Banksy on Advertising
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are “The Advertisers” and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”
~ Banksy
“They want the legal distinction between legal and illegal sharing to go away” (via Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea | Video on TED.com)
Is a squirrel dying outside my house more “relevant” than people dying in Africa?
On The Filter Bubble
What Facebook and Google are Hiding from world. (by thoughtawakening)
