I don’t think I would do justice to Cory Doctorow’s talk at Vivid Ideas by going through the points blow by blow so I encourage you to leave this page and go to the podcasts at 2SER to hear it for yourself. If you need to be convinced to listen to this recording you will:
QR codes – they seem like a good idea, yet their implementation is often shallow and clumsy. Tesco have certainly shown what can be done with QR codes building a shopping experience at train stations in South Korea.
In September 2011 Santorum asked Google to intervene by altering the indexing of the content, saying, “If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country…To have a business allow that type of filth to be purveyed through their website or through their system is something that they say they can’t handle but I suspect that’s not true.”[4] In response to Santorum’s request, a Google spokesperson asserted that Google does not “remove content from our search results, except in very limited cases such as illegal content and violations of our webmaster guidelines.”[4]
Who owns the Twitter followers of an account when they were amassed during an employee’s tenure at a company? A case popped up in the news today on SMH (originally published in the New York Times).
So the topic of the evening was meant to be Social media and the music industry but that’s not quite what we got.