Scope on the Air Guitar World Championships
"The competition wound down with an all-contestant jam of Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World." The audience, and all the participants in the webcast, were encouraged to join along in the arm-jerking frenzy for world peace. As the Championship's website states: 'If everyone played the air guitar, there would be no wars because the soldiers would have to lay down their weapons.'"
Apparently, big fish are In.
Le Monde : Les ambitions numériques de Corbis inquiètent les photojournalistes
Corbis is Bill Gates and a rose is still a rose by any other name. I am troubled, and angered, by his naked pursuit of acquiring as much of the imagery we define and position our lives by as possible.
Karl-Erik Tallmo : Knowledge-on-Demand
"Can knowledge be switched on and off - and can it be stored outside of our heads?"