Fantastic - just when I was starting to feel jaded, just when I thought the web was in danger of becoming a bland, corporate-controlled, commoditised shrine to mediocrity in the chase for post-Google aquisition dollars, something pops up to raise a genuine grin and restore my faith in The Long Tail of humanity.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow to present :Hitler Cats
Happy Friday :)
Friday, June 23, 2006
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Irrepressible Information
You may have noticed the new big green box in the sidebars linking to IRREPRESSIBLE.INFO - this is part of a campaign against internet censorship from Amnesty International.
The idea is that if you are subject to, or hear about, suppression or censorship of internet-based articles, you can submit the content to them, and they will then syndicate it across all the participants a sentence at a time. That way the submitted article is still available, albeit in a distributed form, and no-one is likely to get shut down for making one sentence available.
It's a novel idea - kind of peer-to-peer publication - and I personally think it's an admirable aim. Remember, censorship comes in many guises and is certainly not just restricted to third-world dictatorships. That's why I'm showing my support, and I humbly suggest that you consider it too.
The idea is that if you are subject to, or hear about, suppression or censorship of internet-based articles, you can submit the content to them, and they will then syndicate it across all the participants a sentence at a time. That way the submitted article is still available, albeit in a distributed form, and no-one is likely to get shut down for making one sentence available.
It's a novel idea - kind of peer-to-peer publication - and I personally think it's an admirable aim. Remember, censorship comes in many guises and is certainly not just restricted to third-world dictatorships. That's why I'm showing my support, and I humbly suggest that you consider it too.
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