Over a Month Ago
Things used to be easy and unambiguous. You found advertisements in magazines and on billboards, art in galleries and museums, and people expressing themselves by means of graffiti and defacing of private/public property was thought of as a nuisance by most. This is an oversimplification, but bear with me.
Over the years, as the urban environment got denser, it also got more cluttered with ads, and street art took on a new poignancy and presence. Today, anyone in an urban environment is subjected to thousands of commercial advertisements, but also non-commercial messages per day.
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Over a Month Ago
Nobody’s perfect. It’s not that they don’t want to be, but everybody has flaws. Flaws that, if pointed out, can help to improve the desired areas and create a better experience for everybody. What better way to hear about the things that could be improved than from the people that you interact with. That is what Get Satisfaction is all about.
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Over a Month Ago
As of April 7th, 2008 Bell Canada will ‘throttle‘ its internet service. This means that they will implement control over what content you will be able to access at full speeds. They already claim to offer a different range of speeds, which as reported by CBC marketplace, is rather suspect. If Bell gets away with doing this, the new control will open the playing field for other ISPs to enforce control over internet content. The implications of this control could severely effect how the internet works. At this stage the internet is largely a free source of knowledge untainted by our corrupt economic system. Allowing the providers to filter and control content for their own economic benefit is adding major influence from the corrupt economic system on this purportedly free knowledge network.
So what can you do? Well here are a few things: Read more…
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