Of ‘we’-ing and ‘us’-ing
p2pnet news view P2P:- Jenna McWilliams says she’s been reading Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, “good little revolutionary” that she is.
She’s an an educational researcher for project new media literacies and a Guardian online columnist, as well as the creator of sleeping alone and starting out early where we find:
“Some of my colleagues find this fact cute. Cute like this: “Oh, lookit Jenna getting all outraged again. Now she’s even carrying Freire around with her. That’s …
TalkTalk double-speak?
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Is Carphone Warehouse’s TalkTalk speaking out of both sides of its mouth?
“We’re full of bright ideas,” it says on its site. But as p2pnet revealed recently, one of them is a plan to have parents acting as corporate copyright control cops on behalf of the entertainment industry.
Mums and dads would censor their kids online with a U, 14 or 18 certificate, or an unclassified rating system
Parents “choosing” the U or 14 options, “would …
New model for artists: build fan relationships
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) describes itself as US “national nonprofit organization that works to ensure a diverse musical culture where artists flourish, are compensated fairly for their work, and where fans can find the music they want”.
It’s just wrapped a three-day music policy meeting and in italics at the top of the allournoise post on the ’summit’ is this quote from Jed Carlson, ReverbNation »»»
Old model: get signed or …
Fans want to pay musicians …
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- By way of an update, a2f2a (artists-to-fans-to-artists), is now online with debates on payments to artists, writes and wrongs on copyright, and a lot of other items of immediate interest, going hot and strong, as p2pnet readers who’ve already joined in will tell you.
If you don’t like music, don’t bother.
But if you do, it’s for you.
If you’re a music maker and/or a music lover, register and add to the conversation.
Says the …
‘Explosive’ UK singles music market
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Singles sales in the UK are breaking records.
According to Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry), file sharing is ruining the corporate music industry and if there was any justice, file sharers would be heavily penalised with forcible disconnection from the Internet and jail time included in punitive measures.
The Big 4 argue file sharing equals sales lost. It’s exactly the same as walking into a shop and stealing a …
Windows 7 Japan burp-a-thon
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Japan has created another monster.
And it’s scarier than Godzilla.
It’s part of a Microsoft promo to launch W7 in the land of the rising Sun and, for a limited time, indigestion.
That’s it on the right.
For ¥777, you get seven patties.
But only for seven days.
Clever, eh?
What will they think of next?
Let the heart-burn begin.
launch W7 – Windows 7: 5 reasons why not, October 23, …
The kids are alright !
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “A few weeks ago, I googled myself (I’m not ashamed to admit I do this all the time) and found that I was being used by others as the representative of the ‘wacky news-wants-to-be-free contingent’,” Jenna McWilliams (right) tells p2pnet.
Jenna — an educational researcher for project new media literacies and a Guardian online columnist — has a wicked sense of humour, which is one of the reasons she’s such …
Sorry for the delay …
p2pnet news view P2P:- “Hey Jon. No posts today?”
That’s from Jazz over in the UK.
Sorry for the delay, today. I had a bunch of emails to answer, there’s a long and very complicated article I’m trying to format (thanks, Tom K ) and I’m still feeling a bit washed out from this flu bug I contracted from somewhere.
So I will be posting, but it won’t be for another hour or so, and there’ll be fewer posts than usual.
Cheers!
Jon
New McAfee ‘report’
p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- US ‘anti-virus’ firm McAfee, which piggy-backs on the popularity of celebrities such as Jessica Biel and Brad Pitt to hype its product, is now using spam emails as a self-advertising tool.
It says spammers are “increasingly piggybacking on the reputation of big brand names to take advantage of their online audiences,” according to TechCentral.
“In its new spam report, McAfee also said that it was also seeing an increase in ‘targeted’ or ’spear’ phishing, and …
p2pnet World Headlines: Oct 19, 2009
Marketers want anti-spam bill altered CBC
The Canadian Marketing Association is lobbying MPs to change an anti-spam bill so that consumers have to opt out of receiving commercial email messages, rather than opting in to get them. In a message sent to its 800 corporate members — which include Costco, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Home Depot and Rogers — on Thursday, the CMA urged companies to get in touch with their local MPs to demand changes to the proposed legislation, which is expected …