Save the net!
A Coke marketing campaign gone wrong.
I can't help but link to this post about a Coca Cola marketing campaign that was .. well, just a little wrong on a few fronts.
An average Australian? Not bloody likely.
In a story published today by the Sydney Morning Herald, they talk about an Australian bloke living in Africa and his contributions to the global society as a whole. He owns wikileaks, which, until now, was unheard of by myself. It is a site that allows confidential contributions by whistleblowers all over the world. There have been amazing documents submitted to the site, including many US military documents.
The truth is out there, no matter how covered up it may be.
Nice work Julian, you are now in my list of heroes.
Further regulations for WYD
All protesters must have their T-Shirts, banners, placards, everything pre-approved by police or risk being arrested.
Apparently freedom of speech has a price.
Pope demos need our blessing, say police.
Redbubble have a thread for t-shirt designs about these rules.
Here is my fave so far;
GetUp’s FuelWatch ad gets airtime.
With $70k raised, GetUp’s fuelwatch ad gets a bunch of time slots on multiple channels.
Bloody Awesome.
New police powers see them able to fine ‘annoying’ people.
Extreme dictator-like powers have been given to NSW police and other World Youth Day volunteers that see them able to fine people $5500 for wearing a T-Shirt that may annoy patrons of WYD services.
I wonder, if I am driving to a WYD service and some Shmo doesn’t indicate to change lanes in front of me (rendering me 100% annoyed) can I perform a citizens fining of said shitty driver? Or should I just call the cops?
Bleugh, bugger the fines. This gives me more reason to get out there and protest this nazism.
Liberate your music
There are many services out there that (unlike iTunes) offer DRM (Digital Rights Management) free mp3 downloads. This is a great service to offer because the DRM encoded files that iTunes sell have limitations on how many machines they can be played on (not to mention they wont play, even from your iPod, through the Xbox 360 "iPod integration" - a very big selling point for me... ). The problem with these iTunes competitors (such as Napster, mp3.com, Amazon and many others) is that they're only available to users in the US. That leaves us Australians high and dry with no DRM-free, legal, music downloads.
Enter doubleTwist - a free music sharing utility (not a p2p, torrent app) that also strips drm-encoding from your iTunes purchased music. Its a little slow, I haven't compared it to other app's for its speed but it works well and the music files seem to retain their quality well for playback in whatever devices / applications you choose.
This helps me further myself from iTunes that one little bit further, now that I am using Rockbox on my iPod, amarok (Linux) and foobar (Windows) for playback and doubleTwist for music liberation, iTunes is only used for purchasing music.
Nice one. 