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798) Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of the state capitals
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792) Jazz Protest Music: The Freedom Now Suite
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782) Making Mothers of Fake Babies
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780) Debunking the "Eat Local" Myth
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773) The discourse of engineering needs to be expanded
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766) Facebook Viral Campaign
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764) Tracking the trackers: Unmasking wiki
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762) Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
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761) The videogame based on the McDonald's production chain
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760) Plastic Bottles: Five minutes worth of consumption in North America
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751) Humanities: meaning, value, and significance
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744) The mystery of discourse is not order, but disorder, incoherence
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735) Yes Prime Minister: entertaining parody of the Australian Prime Minister
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733) Chernobyl Legacy: photographic essay with audio commentary
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731) Kingdom of Piracy: online, open work space to explore the free sharing of digital content
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724) A devout Christian is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else
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722) Regionalisation: Educational Reform in New Zealand
(718) Rip, Mix, Burn, Autolink
http://folksonomy.org.uk/?s=718
Utterance:
Remember Apple’s ad campaign during the heyday of Napster? It was "Rip, Mix, Burn." (video) The message was clear – clip and mix your music your way. After all, it is your music. You bought it. Unfortunately, Apple ran into a bit of hot water over the campaign because the music industry (e.g. the content creators) felt it encouraged CD ripping and file sharing. Today a similar controversy is bubbling, sparked by the Google Toolbar's new Autolink feature. It inserts links into online content that were not put there by the publisher. Now Time magazine is reporting that Marissa Mayer at Google says that the company will unlikely back down unless users demand it. Marissa, what are the bloggers, chop liver?
The question at heart is what right does a user have to change the content of a non-editable Web page they didn't create? Cory Doctorow says..
"It's my screen, and I should be able to control it; companies like Google and individuals should be able to provide tools and services to let me control it."
This made Robert Scoble so mad, he nearly crushed his Channel 9 Guy with his bare hands. Scoble wrote...
"This is such a slippery slope. Do you really want to go down this slope? If you allow Google to do this, you are opening a pandora's box that you'll never close."
I agree with Scoble. This is a pivotal discussion that bloggers, journalists, PR professionals and marketers need to jump into. Do you really want Google, Microsoft, George W. Bush, God or anyone adding links to your content? You know my position here. If I were you, I wouldn't want this – unless the site is intentionally part of the read/write web, such as a wiki or a blog that is open to comments. Your content is your content. If you care about the Web, I urge you to sign this petition that I created and spread the word. We need to send a message to Google and others that messing with content is just plain wrong.
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©Steve Rubel (Senior Vice President, Edelman)
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698) Bodymouse: the potential of biomedical science?
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695) Jihad videos posted on YouTube website
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680) Bright: undermining the heterosexual love triangle in the heterosexual narrative
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677) Parody Through Recurring Motifs of Suspense and Clichés of Plot
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672) Symbolic Control Through Appropriation of Local Stories
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663) Citizen Reporting of the London Bombings
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613) New Zealand is not naive to the great cost of waging war
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602) art and design students look at surveillance
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596) Database of Virtual Art: a richly interlinked online repository
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588) Boal: the intervention of the art of tragedy
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574) (un)Smart-Mobs: Text-Messages Used to Incite Racial Violence at NSW's Cronulla beach
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567) Terra Nova: collaborative weblog about virtual worlds
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559) Diagnosing Iranian history in terms of European past
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546) Regulation Through Discourses/Practices
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529) the
War on Terror and other conservative catchphrases
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520) historical materialism: offering critical resources for the de-reification of capitalism
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519) ethics question satirising Australian Prime Minister
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518) industrialisation: pin making and the the division of labour
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506) Culture Jamming: Australian International University
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505) Culture Jamming the Forbes Global CEO Conference
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496) Enemy Image: where is the human tragedy?
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494) NICHT loschbares Feuer / Inextinguishable Fire
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490) Christian forces humiliating Muslims in their own heartland
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400) Heartfield: political commentary through photomontage
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350) Seven Up! series: glimpses of Britain's future
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331) Freire: answers to exploitation in photographs
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319) Escape from Woomera: videogame social commentary
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207) Social Inclusion and Exclusion
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199) Faces of the Fallen: photomosaic
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201) eugenics: forced sterilization
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73) urban theory: world systems
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2) Futurist manifesto: War is beautiful
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