A revolutionary invention, that changed the way the world communicated, Morse Code could be compared to Twitter. The art of getting information across very quickly is what Twitter is all about. The instances where news has been broken via the microblogging service shows the way in which it is playing a central role in our lives, even if we aren’t on it.
Just as we can now share information quickly and easily via various social networking platforms, we unintentionally filter the news, influencing the media as to which stories are more importa…
Pirate Bay is a file sharing website, where they facilitate people sharing music, films and games. Today the founders were found guilty of breaking copyright law. They and their supporters claim that they just offer the ability for people to share files, they don’t own or illegally sell the material and so are free from wrongdoing. Some people have argued that it would be the equivalent of a search engine being prosecuted for the information it offered.
I subscribed to this view this morning when I read all of the sympathetic articles and supportive tweets. I also bemoaned the music industry for using their millions against ordinary people who meant them no harm.
Have they doped us all into supporting them by evoking the spirit of web 2.0?
Part of web 2.0 is free services online via the cloud (simply put) and so many believe that free music and films should by divine right be free as well. So when someone goes to prison for essentially stealing the property of big corporations they become modern day Robin Hood figures. But were they just in it for the profit? I suspect that fantastic online PR has created a glorious image of the Pirate Bay founders as our new hero…
We’re doing our first ever poll today! It’s not a real poll, more a desperate plea from me to prove that I’m right and Richard isn’t quite so…
A friend of mine – @drgs100 – tweeted about this yesterday, and it made me laugh so much last night that I knew I wanted to share it with everyone to cheer up Monday morning.
Richard’s first response, “No way! But it’s so obviously fake!” Not in a mean way, just dismay at the fakeness and loss of a real opportunity to do something brilliant.
Now, yes it is, clearly, but I don’t think that matters all that much – it’s still really funny, so the question du jour: Does a viral have to be real, or does it just need to be funny/cool/interesting?
I don’t know how to make a real poll so you’ll just have to put your vote in the comments…
(To give this a touch more context (if you want it) we also loved the recent Vodafone viral- which whilst also clearly fake, is alledgedly perfectly possible with new advances in telemetry)
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