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Mullenweg Speaks Out on Twitter, WordPress and the Question of Competition - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
"Agree with others; I use seesmic for Blackberry, Yoono on desktop, and Twitter .com to maintain twitter account. WordPress & twitter are great combination tools. Each supports the other for me."
- Alex Williams
How to Achieve Your Goals by Changing the Way You Surf the Web - http://www.doshdosh.com/how-to-...
Goals don't have to be about money for this thought process to work while you surf the web.
- Alex Williams
Open the Future - http://openthefuture.com/
Futurist, cultural transformation
- Alex Williams
Futurist, cultural transformation
- Alex Williams
The season of Rainier cherries — La saison des cerises Rainier | La Tartine Gourmande - http://www.latartinegourmande.com/2009...
NaHi, Ozgur Gercek, وارش and 6 other people liked this
"After one single bite into the plump fruit, I fell in love. I had not seen Rainier cherries before I moved to the US. Where I am from in France, we grow des cerises noires (black cherries) and des cerises aigres (sour cherries) , delicious and juicy, especially those I am able to pick and eat right from the cherry trees. But Rainier cherries have a je-ne-sais-quoi that takes any variety of cherries a step up. They are sweeter and with their yellow orange hue, seem to be smiling and beaming like the sunshine at sunset."
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
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I live for Rainier cherries. I plan to pick some up...oh, tonight! I completely forgot today is Thursday. Farmer's Market tonight. Maybe I'll wait until the one in the morning. It'll be cooler.
- Admiral Anika
Love, love, love these. FINALLY, something me and Anika can agree on. *hugs* :D
- Derrick
Hey, we both agreed that "strawberried" peanut butter M&Ms are a no go, too. I think the end is nigh.
- Admiral Anika
I'm buying a lotto ticket. o_O
- Derrick
lol
- Admiral Anika
I can't afford the second mortgage it'd take to buy these. :'(
- Ayşe E.
I just bought some yesterday. Imma go eat them naow.
- Laura Norvig
Are they really expensive for you Ayşe? I remember several years ago, we had some weather issues (I think too much rain) and they were almost $6 for a pint.
- Admiral Anika
Rainiers are sweeter than Bings, but I'm not sure if there's actually more sugar or just less acid. I like them as a change up, but definitely prefer Bing cherries most of the time.
- Andrew C
I just ate a bunch of them. and some peanut m&ms. and now I want some Ruffles. you see? this is why you're fat! and we can't have nice things! *hangs head in shame*.
- Laura Norvig
And makes scrumptious Cherry Garcia ice cream too!
- Alex Williams
Stac Pollaidh at Sundown
Mac Sharp, Jakki_D, Alex Williams and 3 other people liked this
Beautifully subtle colors.
- Alex Williams
12% of e-mail users have actually tried to buy stuff from spam - http://arstechnica.com/web...
A sad commentary re: common sense.
- Alex Williams
from Viigo
Anthony Citrano, Nia, Holger Eilhard and 14 other people liked this
Wonderful project idea Thomas. You do such good work!
- Alex Williams
Love it!
- Kimber Scott
Another great addition to your $2 project Thomas. One thing though, I think you can take the "recently" out of "Recently I blogged about a new project that I am starting called $2 portraits".
- ChiliMac
good point there ChiliMac. Was just thinking about that myself.
- Thomas Hawk
I want to hug you every time one of these comes out. This portrait is amazing - wisdom, kindness, humor, strife all in his face. As with all of your homeless portraits, I've found another person I'd like to become friends with.
- jcunwired
This reminds me a lot of Tom Stone's work -- http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Tim was a great guy. Very friendly. I could have just hung out and talked with him for an hour if I hadn't had to get home. Full of humor and a genuine human being. He had a lot of fun with the portrait and would comment to people that I was the paparazi and that he was famous when other people were walking by as I was photographing him. A wonderful person. Nicholas, Tom Stone does some...
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- Thomas Hawk
How can we get copies of your $2 portraits? :)
- jcunwired
Thomas: I agree, Tom is very talented and has a real knack for capturing the true essence of this genre. Excellent shot of Tim, I love his expression.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Shared - http://yoono.com/nEwqLLE
Ahh!!! Wonderful mud!
- Alex Williams
KQED is showing photos from the King Tut exhibit currently on display at the de Young. Why is it that they get to take photos of the de Young exhibit but I can't?
MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF, Will Higgins™, Hutch Carpenter and 7 other people liked this
I sent them an email even asking for permission to shoot it and they never even responded to it.
- Thomas Hawk
Any museum must accept the requirements for licensing of images and restrictions on use and copyright that are usually determined by the artist or the museum that owns the individual works of art. Probably not the de Youngs decision. Boston's MFA for example allowed me to take photos w/o flash on works in their collection, but not on the traveling exhibit of Edward Hopper that was on...
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- Alex Williams
Alex I suspect it's the Tut exhibit's restriction which sucks. I'm sure they'd rather hope that people buy their books and photos and posters in the gift store rather than take photos of their own. It's pretty commercial how as soon as the exhibit ends they dump you directly into a big gift shop. As for me, I'm just going to skip the exhibit altogether, I'd rather not support exhibits that prohibit photography.
- Thomas Hawk
Iran has the bomb! Does that jar you? http://denukeiran.ning.com/main... #iranelection #iran #freedom denuke iran today- JOIN! #tcot #p2 #tlot
Does it bother you that Pakistan already, really has the bomb?
- Alex Williams
3 Ways to Recognize Bots and Spammers on Twitter - http://www.twitip.com/3-ways-...
Laurentiu liked this
Gives me a little better idea of how this spam things is being worked on Twitter.
- Alex Williams
Why you Need a Telephoto Zoom Lens for Landscape Photography - http://digital-photography-school.com/why-you...
Justin Korn and Kol Tregaskes liked this
Short, concise and good exemplification of the perspective shift. Great photo too.
- Alex Williams
If You’re a FriendFeed Addict, You Must Use Feedly - http://jungleg.com/2009...
Hugh Isaacs II, AMS Vans, Mark Krynsky and 33 other people liked this
Damn I'm hooked on chrome. Chrome! when feedly goes chrome I'll gladly grab it. What about my precious iphone? Out in the cold with no cool conversation gravity well navigator? I'm interested but I can wait till it jumps over all the browser barriers. Web generality, ain't so general :(
- Mark Essel
I'm still using Firefox because of feedly.
- M F
What?!? Sick... OK... I'm giving this a try.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
RSS becomes an even greater time sink than ever. We need apps that make it HARDER to get to this kind of stuff! ;-) Really! Thanks for the heads up on this little gem.
- Alex Williams
Feedly is coming soon to Chrome. Edwin, what's the ETA?
- Mike Fruchter
I do not know the exact ETA for something polished/official because we are multi-threading on a few projects in parallel and have been swamped by the number of feature requests. If you send me an email, I can add you to our private alpha list. It will require you to run the dev version of chrome (which starts to support APIs for extensibility). We also have a version running on safari (minus the mini toolbar). My email address is edwink A T devhd.com
- Edwin Khodabakchian
My two favs for sure!
- Kevin Gamble
I strongly disagree. FF addict, tried feedly, didn't like it. I use Google Reader + Newsfox instead
- LANjackal
Saw this yesterday. Figured I'd give it a go. Didn't realize it would be this awesome! Thanks Louis!
- Bas
God damn it, frackin firefox addons. This one actually looks good to! Bah, I'm chrome's biatch
- James Tenniswood
I'm in the same boat James. I need the window opening speed of chrome, there's nothing like it. Its the same reason I originally went with stripped down firefox.
- Mark Essel
Shared - http://yoono.com/yd3Zshd
Another "Lioness" arrested. Reasonably good source.
- Alex Williams
Phil and I are thinking about moving someplace in the next few years, probably not for at least 2 years though. We're looking for a place where we could buy a house for 150-200k. There should be seasons, but we don't want really bad winters. Semi-urban at least. Where would you move, and why?
Penguin It's Cold Outside and Louis Gray liked this
We really liked Seattle (but may be too expensive) and have considered Portland (but we have not visited there yet).
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Houses in Seattle proper can be much more expensive than that, but it depends on the neighbourhood. If you are in the suburbs or outlying areas, you can find houses in that range.
- joey
Spain.
- Paola Bonomo
Cleveland, it is amazing how easy it is to redefine what a bad winter is ;-)
- Jamie Ginsberg
Greenville SC, yay! Depends on what you mean by semi-urban, but there is a thriving urban area downtown proper. The range you've given is right about the average house purchase for this area: depending on where you buy you can easily get a 3 br 2 ba for that range. Four seasons a year, but winter weather is rare enough that the whole area shuts down for snow. It's fun =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
By semi-urban I basically mean that we would prefer to live in a more urban area than where we are now, which is very typical suburban strip mall can't walk anywhere nightmare. Austin also has a kind of manufactured urban area now but it's mostly too expensive for us. We are also both totally over the 110F summers and would like to move somewhere that experiences a Fall. We're kind of committed to Austin for a bit since I have decided to go back to school.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Ahhh... Well, this area has some of both. Downtown is exceptionally walkable, and the nearby smaller towns also have the same in their centers. In between are some of the suburban no-man's land. I live near downtown and have 2 grocery stores within a mile or two: I could walk but I'm lazy =) There's a park and zoo also within a mile (again with the lazy: it's downhill there and uphill...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Very cool thanks for the suggestion :)
- Andrizzle Gizzle
I've lived in the Seattle & metro area for 28 years. The city itself is much more expensive, outlying areas not so bad but to tell the truth, if I had it to do over again; I'd choose Portland. It's pedestrian friendly, urban with excellent mass transit, and very green. I often wish I had settled there.
- Alex Williams
Cool, we are thinking of taking a trip to Portland whenever Phil get some vacation time. It seems like a very nice city.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Integrity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... #food
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If you really think the "organic" label has ever meant anything remotely close to the dictionary definition of organic; you need to stop and read this article. Be prepared to get angry though. Lies, lies, and more lies.
- Alex Williams
Be Social and a New Uploader- July 1st, 2009 - http://blogs.smugmug.com/release...
rama mamuaya, Alex Williams, Greg Birch and 2 other people liked this
photo uploaded! thanks!
- Greg Birch
Wonderful news. Just started seriously using SmugMug as an alternative to flickr.
- Alex Williams
The Dumbing-Down Of Society - Why Our Culture Is Obsessed With Celeb-retards - http://www.thevirtualbiographer.com/blog...
Nils Seiter, Arnaud Fischer, ocde.cn and 16 other people liked this
"Most of today's celebrity obsessed society flock to these people who became famous for being infamous. Take Kim Kardashian, for instance... she became famous flopping out her big fat ass in a perno. Really!? REALLY!? And we idolize her - and now her entire family - WHY? There are more and more stupid celebrities surfacing into our culture's consciousness by the minute. And the sheeple are ready to pounce on them, but for what reason!? Because they see how fabulous their life is and instantly begin dreaming of how they can "make it big" in on "Fame Planet.""
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
(Disclaimer: This is a webisode produced myself, Brad Williamson. http://friendfeed.com/bradwil... I hope you enjoy it and would love to hear your thoughts ;-)
- Brad Williamson
And she is also on friend feed suscribing to about over 40.000 persons (I know because I happen to be one of them)
- Claudia
I gotta admit... I am, too. But JUST to see how she's gonna use the platform. So far she, or her clueless management team, thinks FF is just a place to poop out her Twitters to another audience.
- Brad Williamson
It's all a machine. We don't obsess over them because they are worth it, we do it because it's a reaction to massive, excessive and nonstop placement of them in our media. The network needs to make that show successful -- the same way PR machines in Hollywood shoved the Meghan Fox as hottie angle in the media non stop until opening weekend to drive sales. It's all marketing. The second...
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- Patricia
It's sad that I could give a rat's ass about celebrities but they invade personal conversations anyway. People know the far-too-intimate details of lives of people we wouldn't want to be friends with if we met them on their own, and are at the same time frighteningly ignorant about the issues of the day: personal, local, state and federal budgets, health care, environment, foreign...
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- Jason Wehmhoener
@Patricia But what's sad about your point and our society is that these types of people are in demand in the first place. I know people love train wrecks, but the type of entertainment people are currently flocking to isn't of that kind - it's more of an obsession over content that is easy on the brain and doesn't make people have to think too much. I know there's a need for that type of enterainment in life, but, right now, it seems like the entire dial is full of it.
- Brad Williamson
@brad, that's the price of low barrier of entry. the machine will do what it does (stuff them down our throats until we deem them famous) -- it's just that in a low barrier of entry market it means just about anybody can be what the machine uses. In other words, our society is only responding as it does -- do you think it'd matter if it were a train wreck or Reese witherspoon? it does not. it's all about how visible something is to us. If anything, we're sad to be duped.
- Patricia
@Jason, the problem is, society is still blind to understand that someone constantly in our faces is constantly in our faces because of marketing, not demand. i can see very clearly when it's happening and i don't fall for it but millions do. it's too bad that the media lets anybody in but it does and we as a society accept it. as a rule, anybody who you see everywhere and constantly is...
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- Patricia
I do find it difficult to understand why people don't simply reject this kind of "excessive visibility". But then, you're talking to someone who stopped watching television in any ordinary sense of the word in the mid 90s (basically the moment I started having something better to do with my time).
- Jason Wehmhoener
@jason, moths to flame. the scary thing is that if hollywood/entertainment can take this kind of power and feed us trash, guess what others can do with it to push agendas.
- Patricia
BTW, it's not just low end stars who take advantage of it -- notice how some "ego bloggers" and "web famous" seem to be omni present? ;)
- Patricia
Yah, I pretty much tune them out as well (to the degree that it's possible). But like I said, these people insinuate themselves into conversations where they may not be welcome. It's hard to avoid.
- Jason Wehmhoener
the only real "bubblegum for the brains" style TV I have been able to watch has been WWE. I've never been able to get into soap operas, (un)reality TV (I still can't believe people don't get that the likes of big brother are scripted! Not scripted in the sense of they have lines, but scripted in the sense of "You need to make a drama out of something"). I'd rather go to a pub and sit in the corner with a drink and watch the antics of real people unfold than watch that drivel!
- alphaxion
@Jason, trust me. I know the feeling. The formula is always the same though so it's easy to see. It's sometimes referred to as "boy band strategy" because it's how hits like New Kids on the Block were created way back when. Next time you see someone like Meghan Fox everywhere, look for her movie opening, same with TV shows and the "famous for nothing."
- Patricia
Alphaxion, you are absolutely right. That is exactly why that drama happens. It's because there is no real tension to the characters/story and so it's manufactured.
- Patricia
@patricia that's kinda why I fell out with the likes of Dave Letterman and the other chat shows. Those talk shows no longer have guests on them for the sake of getting to know the person, they're nothing more than a tarted up advert for their latest offering. Just count how many times they mention the new release during their stint.
- alphaxion
@alphaxion, i'm a creator in TV business -- it's becoming nearly impossible to sell ideas otherwise. the suits at networks believe that this is what the public wants. it's like saying each time you want to sell a product, you need to create a ten pile car wreck. Sadly, the desire of attention means many will do whatever it takes to be "noticed" and many mistake it as it being in demand...
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- Patricia
@ Alpha Props for admitting you watch WWE. It's take a real man to come public with that. I, too, loved it for a long time, but the new generation of the shows aren't what they used to be, IMO.
- Brad Williamson
The real question we need to be asking ourselves is how we can reverse the trend of tacky programming. It really is shaping our society in a negative way, and no matter how profitable it may be, media producers need to shift gears towards substantial content, before society becomes so used to the drivel we have now that there's no turning back. Just like the crisis of the banking...
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- Brad Williamson
@brad, if my work succeeds, i will do just that, hopefully. but i think the bigger focus needs to be on showing the public how they're being duped so they don't buy it and it no longer works. PS -- E entertainment recently did a poll and found like 90 something percent of its audience did not want to see Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt at all. Now E has banned them.
- Patricia
@Patricia Sounds like you and I both have some ambitious work to do ;-)
- Brad Williamson
@Brad My interest in WWE waned as the attitude era fizzled out and the on mic talent replacing the likes of steve austin, chris jericho (I know he's back, and actually doing a fine job as a heel) and the rock just weren't up the snuff. Yes I knew it was fake, but then I didn't watch it to find out who was winning which belt - the belts are pretty much inconsequential to the over the top plotlines.
- alphaxion
@patricia well, I'm attempting to do my bit as well. I've given up on TV for the most part and watch a lot of podcasts now. I even produce my own, which really could do with more than just myself writing for it. There exists a small number of people who finally get how crap much of TV is now, but it pales in comparison to the numbers of those still trapped by it.
- alphaxion
@alphaxion, awesome. Power to the people! (like us!)
- Patricia
Stop watching TV. With the internet it's easier than ever.
- Boris Gordon
@Boris But there are even more nut-jobs on the Net (including myself).
- Brad Williamson
I'm curious as to why the audience needs to see this? Everyone knows she's got "junk in the trunk" from 1,000s of photos and the likes of TMZ. This is almost like Kim saying to all of us "Give me your money, attention, and kiss my ass!"
- Giacomo Knox
hehe, sheeple. I like that.
- Dane
I should do a perno video! Hah! Not.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I'm not a sheeple, I just clicked on the link to see a bigger pic of her wedging herself into those pants. LOL!
- Bryan Zirkel
Remember Rome and the Circus. Keeping us distracted while they steal us blind. :-P
- Alex Williams
@Jason Wouldn't that be a miracle? Stuff that really matters? Well; I keep dreaming too.
- Alex Williams
Playing with twitter/posterous/ourdoings interfaces to tumblr and my new gizapage. Will this work?
Whoopps! Forgot FF.
- Alex Williams
Heliconia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Bruce Lewis
Thanks, I couldn't remember the name.
- Alex Williams
DoD Training Manual: Protests are "Low-Level Terrorism" - http://open.salon.com/blog...
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Protests are "Low-Level Terrorism
- Alex Williams
And now Obama wants "prolonged detention" for folks who might commit a crime but for whom we have insufficient evidence to prosecute! This is different from Bush/Cheney how?
- Alex Williams
Ah! The sweet sound of justice! Stanford; you're next.
- Alex Williams
All New Square Foot Gardening - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
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Wonderful resource. It's what got us started this year. Though we modified the depth for not having to bend over as far.
- Alex Williams
Shared - http://yoono.com/sUPLEos
This is why I think rebekka is a wonderful artist with a camera.
- Alex Williams
A Message To The International Community From Inside Iran (iran88) - http://sites.google.com/site...
We must attend to this kind of information about our response to Iran's crisis.
- Alex Williams
from Bookmarklet
New comment today on "HOW TO: Track Iran Election with Twitter and Social Media" http://www.backtype.com/davidsa...
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Thanks for this link!
- Alex Williams
Twine Gets Google Reader Inspired Makeover - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Charlie Anzman, Shawn Hickman, Gordon Saunders and 24 other people liked this
"Twine is the site where social bookmarking meets social networking, and it’s recently been hot on the heels of Delicious in terms of traffic."
- Kol Tregaskes
"Moving full steam ahead, the site has just launched a redesign to their home page, Google Reader-like functionality for processing items in Twines (groups of feeds for example), and a number of new features to make the experience more intuitive to new users. Twine is also ready to start cashing in on user behavior, adding social product ads that will evolve to become semantic in nature."
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow, that's far, far better. Excellent interface! Any Twine users here? You can find me here: http://www.twine.com/user...
- Kol Tregaskes
I used to get on twine first thing in the morning and check out what new cool things it would show me. Now FF has completely taken over.
- Jim Is Not Smart
I use Twine to find stuff to put on FF. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Obviously though, one thing they need to add is FriendFeed integration or at least FF share-to options.
- Kol Tregaskes
Just found Twine a couple weeks ago. Great potential for aggregating interests & conversations with really fascinating people. Much like FriendFeed :-)
- Alex Williams
Alex, I think it's brilliant, find lots of interesting stuff there.
- Kol Tregaskes
Maybe it's time to dust off my Twine account
- Kevin D. White
Kevin, worth another look I'd say. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ok, let's try also twine (in all similar challenges ever Google reader won.. )
- CantorJF
And the new & improved interface is grand. Very straight-forward.
- Alex Williams
I used Twine for some weeks but left it because I didn't found value in it to overcome the interface misses. Now with this redesign I'll give it another try.
- Luis Enrique León
I joined Twine, and I have no idea what to do with it.
- Peter
Peter, I'd searched for "twines" of your interest and follow them. What I do is rely on the digest of my selected favourite twines and go through that each day. I find some interesting articles this way not shared elsewhere. I've not really go into using the site but I have RSS feeds for most things now. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
That's the sort of GUI that FriendFeed should have.
- Keith Bennett
I agree with the GUI of twine being better than FF, but is it more useful? Interactivity is a big plus which FF has atm, and Twine has a HUGE barrier of entry! Heck I don't even know how to use Twine atm but im trying. Just imagine for those peeps who are not as computer savvy as I am (well I'm not much better either!).
- RJ Rea Culli Gan
i've been checking out twine here and there and i'm really starting to like it. i've used ff in a quasi-social bookmarking manner over the last few months and will still continue to post here primarily, but the bookmarking aspect on twine seems excellent though i could use more media-rich options (the ability to use more than a single images, as i'm heavily into design, visualization, art, etc)
- Cee Bee
Silicon Valley Insider: Yahoo Bans Anti-Obama Flickr Commenter (YHOO) - http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-b...
Nils Sandin, Shuuro, Bindu Reddy and 13 other people liked this
"About a week after China blocked Flickr during the 20th anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre, Yahoo (YHOO) has banned a paying Flickr Pro account holder named Shepherd Johnson after he left comments on photos uploaded by the White House's official Flickr account. The comments protested the Obama administration's policy on torture photos. Here's one of them, found by Valleywag: “The Obama White House is supporting a new bill (sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman) whose sole purpose is allowing the government to suppress any ‘photograph taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009′ relating to the treatment of detainees in the ‘War on Terror.’ In other words, Obama wants Congress to change the FOIA so that the courts can’t compel release of any more torture photos.”"
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
It is interesting that as politics is seemingly involved in this specific instance of flickr irreversibly deleting a users account, it is getting some serious mainstream exposure. Nice work keeping on this one TH.
- Travis Koger
on techmeme now here: http://www.techmeme.com/090610... I talked to a reporter today at BusinessWeek as well and we should see something from them on it soon too. Yahoo owes it's users better than random and permanent account deletions.
- Thomas Hawk
Yes! Thomas, thanks so much for staying on this one!
- Alex Williams
on CNN now too: http://money.cnn.com/news...
- Thomas Hawk
As government gets hipper to and more involved with the web, social networking, etc. we should expect the freedom the web etc. offered to be reduced.
- Chuck Baggett
I think it's lame of them, but my instinct is they ought be able to do what they want. people really abuse the word "censorship" which to my mind is something governments do. @chuck: I don't think so.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Btw I don't know the whole story
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Thomas, thanks for bringing this issue to the fore, and staying with this story. It is very disturbing and disappointing to say the least. An outrage is more like it.
- Sterling Zumbrunn
British photography editor stopped under terrorism law news - Amateur Photographer - http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news...
Thomas Hawk, Franz Sittampalam, Helen Sventitsky and 3 other people liked this
"The editor of a leading UK-based photography website says he was stopped by police for 'taking photos of iconic landmarks' in central London."
- Mel Buckpitt
from Bookmarklet
scary stuff
- martha
But they're landmarks. They're iconic. They bring tourists. And NOONE'S allowed to take pictures of them? Dumbasses. I'm sure they'll reconsider when the tourism takes a downturn in the UK, because people keep getting stopped for stupid stuff.
- Helen Sventitsky
The ironic thing is that in the UK the state spies on you all the time. It's reckoned that after a day out in London, you'll be on anything up to 300 cameras videotape.
- Ian May
My apologies Mel; I got so upset reading the article, I forgot you had posted it here. That's my trouble following too many sources. Thanks for putting this up.
- Alex Williams
Helen: Two German tourists were arrested this summer for taking pictures of the city Ian: No worries!!
- Mel Buckpitt
What's up today? Taking photos of "iconic landmarks" in London. How would you avoid them? What is wrong with us? Are we willing to give up everything for the "illusion" of safety?
- Alex Williams
Mel, I read about that. As a result, London is off my list of places to (re)visit until the British government gets it's paranoid act together. :(
- Helen Sventitsky
I can see myself now, arguing with some jobsworthy cop because I took a picture of Westminster Palace, when the fools were in the House. LOL
- Ian May
Helen, I totally see where you are coming from. Most Brits (I am one) are either fearful of terror or don't give a damn about their rights. The minority that care about these things are seen as some loony fringe who must be up to no good and cant be trusted.
- Mel Buckpitt
I'll concur with Mel on this one.
- Ian May
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