Monday Links
Ireland Offline, the lobby group that campaigned for affordable broadband access to homes and businesses around Ireland, has wound up reports Silicon Republic. The lobby group has done tremendous work over the past year. Let’s hope that the Government and broadband operators work together and improve broadband access across the country in the wake of Ireland Offline stepping down.
Nicholas Carr reveals that some Amazon users are using the tagging system on the popular shopping website in a fashion that the online retailer hadn’t expected. It is likely to raise some controversy in the future. Here’s a synopsis of his post:
I recently received an email from a reader of this blog who described how, in browsing for DVDs at Amazon, he came across some creepy keywords that users had used to categorize movies. The 1985 French coming-of-age film L’Effrontée, for example, had been tagged, as shown in the screen shot below, with such keywords as “child nudity,” “infant nudity,” “young girl,” “bare butt,” and “nymphette”
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Does Amazon really want to be known as a company that makes it easy for people to find movies labeled as containing “child nudity.” If it were a physical store, would it set up a “child nudity” section in its movie department? I don’t think so.
Adrants has some great pictures of Lynx’s Bow Chicka Wah Wah campaign which has jumped from our TV screens to the real world thanks to some stickers that will make people double-take when they walk past some ordinary signs.
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