Adverts masquarading as news. Hmmm, there’s a lot of this about these days. Read Flat Earth News for more information on the topic of the errorsion of proper reporting and the infiltration of press releases into the popular news. Depressing if interesting reading.
So I presume all my iPhone owning friends out there must have encountered the new terms and conditions for the iTunes store recently. I suspect you just pressed “Agree” and soldiered bravely on in the face of ignorance. Perhaps you didn’t notice what it said right at the bottom: Page 1 of 90 ‘ let’s just say that again: 1 of 90 – that’s NINETY pages of legalise to sift through (or I suspect not)
I love watching the world flash by from a train window, it’s one of my favourite things in the world. There’s something hypnotic and deeply therapeutic about the clickety-clack of the train trundling down the track and the flashes of light as the sun sets. These small vignettes of time were captured with Quadcamera on the train from Paddington.
Technology is for abusing, that’s my opinion anyway. Most of the great ideas in art, photography and other creative pursuits come from using an object in a way that was never conceived of by the manufacturer. Have a little courage, stop treating you telephone like a extension of you personality. It’s just a bloody phone.
So avid readers of this blog (I know there are at least two of you) will remember my amusement at Google’s lack of enthusiasm for the phrase “Bury those nasty corporations” in its ad words programme. The time for this to be processed has got me thinking about the approval process. Presumably if the automated system flags an advert as being “questionable” that is the machine cannot decide itself, it has to be inspected by a real human being. Right, […]
