Paul McCartney Doesn't Understand the Internet
What’s Paul McCartney’s doomsday scenario? Someone, somewhere, somehow manages to leak the Beatles’ music onto the internet, where it will be stolen by everyone, all the time. This must be prevented! Notice a problem there?
The world is currently full of tired old media guys in possession or control of vast swathes of valuable rich content; literature, journalism, music, TV or film… it remains the responsibility of elderly executives to guard it and, in ways fast-becoming less relevant in today’s digital world, find ways to exploit that content for profits.
McCartney is just one of those old farts who doesn’t ‘get’ the Internet. Rupert Murdoch is another. I have met (and worked with) plenty of similar people in my time at the BBC.
But don’t worry. It’s only a matter of time. See, they’re growing older all the time, more out-of-touch with the modern digital realm with each passing day. What is it Leia tells Tarkin? “The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems slip through your fingers…”
Actually not the best choice of quotes, but I like it. I haven’t mentioned Star Wars in a while, it was about due.
Anyway. Fear not. The old farts will be retired or dead soon enough, making way for those of us who do get the Internet. And then the world will be a perfect place. There will be no crime, no poverty. Global warming will be reversed. Unicorns will prance through the streets–
–good fucking god. I hate insomnia. I need to go sleep…
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There Is No Jump
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Does She Really Know What Twitter Is?
Twitter, the social internet firm that tracks trends through individuals’ updates of events around them, may eventually go to the stock market for funding if necessary, its co-founder Biz Stone said.
Maybe she’s just trying to find a new way to describe what Twitter is. Or maybe she’s in over her head.
The author – Gerogina Prodhan – isn’t technically wrong, but c’mon, please… there are a dozen less strangulated, laborious, brain-straining ways to describe Twitter.
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Three iPhone Ocarina
You know those TV shows that are based around the “100 something of something…” themes? For example, “100 Best Songs of the 1980s” or “100 Most Crazy LOLcatz”…
This Ocarina thing is going to be in a tv show in the not too distant future entitled “100 Most Inane Methods Employed by Highly Educated People to Waste Their Time Whilst Genuinely Believing They’re Contributing Something Useful to Society (But Definitely Are Not)”.
I don’t know where it will rank in that list of 100, but it’ll be there, mark my words.
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Return to Africa's Witch Children
In Return to Africa’s Witch Children, Dispatches reveals what happened to some of the children and church leaders who originally featured, and discovers that even now children as young as two are still being stigmatised as witches and treated as outcasts.
Gary Foxcroft of Lancaster-based charity Stepping Stones Nigeria also returns to Nigeria and discovers that since his last visit the rescue centre that houses many of these children was the target of an attack. He also learns that the number of children living there has in fact risen.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Ellin is one such child. She was found at the side of the road, her body having been severely burnt with boiling water. Nwanakwo Udo Edet, around eight years old, wasn’t so fortunate. He had acid poured over him after being labelled a wizard and later died.
No child (or anyone!) was ever labeled a witch and subjected to such cruelty in the name of Rational Thinking.
This was done by religious groups in the name of God.
Last week a 13 year old girl was stoned do death for the “crime” of having been gang-raped.
This was also done by religious groups in the name of God.
Meanwhile, John Denham, the communities secretary for Great Britain, said the values of Christians, Muslims and other religions were essential in building a “progressive society”.
I know these are extreme cases. I know the majority of Christians and Muslims don’t do (or condone) such vicious, barbaric, sickening behaviour.
But it’s hardly the sort of essential “progressive”-ness Denham ignorantly believes religions bring to modern life.
Just think about it. No group of people were ever motivated to torture, mutilate, dismember and commit murder in the pursuit of reasone, rational-thinking.
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A Growing Problem with Science Journalism
The very fact that the internet has exploded print media’s business model means that quality control is really all that traditional journalism has left.
Unless you’re the News Corp, in which case you’ll print any old shit.
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Mac OS X's SPOD appears on Family Guy
I already loved this show, and was horrified by the news it was planning to sell its soul to Redmond in that terrible-but-thankfully-never-realised Windows 7 ad tie-in.
And now they do this. Dammit, I love this show!
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