«The Internet didn’t destroy publishing, it destroyed advertising. Publishing was handcuffed to the corpse when we threw it off the bridge.»
Category: blurb
Voraciously
«Research voraciously, and understand how the things around us work at a basic level.»
—Jeff Atwood, from: Please Don’t Learn to Code
Banksy On Advertising
[graphic based on a photo by jan slangen]
Nearly 4 years ago Banksy said something true …
«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, 2008
Faith in Faith
«‘Faith in faith’ he answered himself. ‘It isn’t necessary to have something to believe in. It’s only necessary to believe that somewhere there’s something worthy of belief.’»
– Alfred Bester, «The Stars My Destination»
Social Atmosphere
«One thing I love about western films and TV shows, is the social. This Internet shit is wack. Then again, I’d be dead already.»
Konspiration
[based on a photo by jonathan mcintosh, CC BY-SA 2.0]
»[…] Verdächtig war, dass nichts verdächtig war. Dann, so die Logik der Überwachenden, musste der Beschuldigte sich ja wohl besonders konspirativ verhalten. Ergo: Die Überwachung musste ausgeweitet werden. […]«
– Anne Roth (Der Freitag, Bitte recht freundlich)
State Terror
«Why do I remember getting hit by cop @ protest 20 yrs ago? Who cares? The state does. That memory’s a cop. The thud is echo of state terror.»
Code For Psychopaths
«Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.»
[via M.H.]
Mobile Traurigkeit
»am handy kann man tippfehler nicht korrigieren und das macht mich traurig.«
— kosmar
cross sharing urls to zero circles
»Stumbleupon, wird auch zu fb crossposted und ich hoffe auch zu @kosmarfeed. Dennoch hab ich hier nen bookmark circle mit 0 leuten, da hab ich das reingeshared, und dann eben noch an euch zugleich. Der circle ist natürlich eigentlich quasi zum instapapern von reshared aus meinen stream hier gedacht, aber manchmal kippt man dann doch kurz ne url rein. Ich hoffe auf api, du merkst. :)«
— kosmar