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Friday 15 October 2010

greenpeace is mad at facebook!



for a proposed data center in oregon that will rely on coal

i find the cartoon format intriguing

Tuesday 12 October 2010

trent reznor speaks out

i love it that trent reznor is a social critic and can slam twitter and facebook and whatever else:

As far as the concept goes, I don’t think it’s actually executed that well. The layout's  kind of foolish and the processing is terrible, as a tool. When I see the media heralding Zuckerburg, putting him up on a pedestal of genius and mentioned in the same breathe as Steve Jobs, I’m highly .  . .


http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/11/reznor-the-social-network/


yet he still gets to make the music for the movie
whew-hew!

i forgot why i was mad at facebook

oh yeah
because they lamely hate the pirate bay:

Facebook

After The Pirate Bay introduced a feature in March 2009 to easily share links to torrents on the popularsocial networking site FacebookWired found in May that Facebook had started blocking the links. On further inspection, they discovered that all messages containing links to The Pirate Bay in both public and in private messages, regardless of content, were being blocked. Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyers commented that Facebook might be working against the US Electronic Communications Privacy Act by intercepting user messages, but Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said that they have the right to use blocks on links where there is a "demonstrated disregard for intellectual property rights," following users' agreement on their terms of service. Links to other similar sites have not been blocked.[164][165][166]

Tuesday 5 October 2010

if i facebooked . . .

i would facebook these people:
http://www.facebook.com/lynn.harritt
and uh?


uh it looks like we have had some facebook digital sweatshop resignations lately!!!!
quitters!!!!!
better late than never
look at the pic!!!
is there anyone else cool there?
if so email me at maryeng1@gmail.com
facebook cessation program


and i want a copy of the boy-in a box pic
with no 
facebook data rights management
annoying!!!!


~~~~~~~~~twilight of facebook~~~~~~

Sunday 3 October 2010

facebook liberation front

i am so completely into ARIES everything.  i love their level of open-ness and energy.

for someone who dislikes facebook as much as i do, i am so delighted that someone is doing something cool there.

for one thing---open your facebook settings and go public people---so we can know what yr doing, thinking, creating, you facebots!!!!

so
#1 perry farrell has an open page.

very important marketing issue from a publicity angle.

whether it takes a special wave of zuckerberg's wand or whatever---people should open up their facebooks---

i am a part of this unrecognized unafflicted unfacebooked minority---but occasionally do want to spy on my friends a little.

a lot of them are too shy(?) to do anything off facebook.

the interface and premise is so boring to me that i can't possibly figure out why to facebook, or how to crack their constantly changing TOA and privacy/publicity settings, and as we are in the twilight of the facebook age, it is still important to somebody . . .

#2 perry is comfortable about his very open sense of poly-bi attraction, on facebook, in public.
plus he's witty and charming and aphoristic.

this is super cool to me!!!!  super cool of the whole family . . . wow!
#3 now i guess this isn't so much a story but 2.5 hrs of facebook outage makes me want to ?.  what did the world do? talk to each other, sing, exercise?  something cool? maybe we should kill the facebook?
like we were supposed to kill the TV?
or live in the present tense
or recognize it for the opium of the cyborgs?
hope radiohead got paid handsomely for the "creep" choral redo for the social network movie.  it is so vintage its eerie---it reminds me of dead poets the whole outlay.  is facebook full of poetry, or the present tense?
or fear? shyness, passivity?
if anybody has any clues as to what is happening there, i would like to know, about facebook's secret machines.
or the old y2k way of calling "the hollow men": tools.
or the digital sweatshops . . .
Crackbook

Is it me, or is Facebook becoming boring?


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