- Did the BBC spam Wikipedia as part of a marketing ploy for alternative reality game, Jamie Kane? This is the first of two posts on this subject over the last day or so – read the other before making your judgement
- Rob Cooper from the Jamie Kane game replies with the BBC’s line on the alleged Wikipedia spamming “Just to confirm, the BBC would never use Wikipedia as a marketing tool. The first posting was simply a case of a fan of the game getting into the spirit of alternative reality a little too much”
- An interesting piece on a Web 2.0 panel held in the US recently “With Web 2.0 apps, the data might be from one place, the metadata from another, and the interface from a third party or a remix”
- Ian Gomeche Public Information Service reports that Ian Gomeche is in custody and has been sectioned
- One of my absolute favourite websites – Metacritic – has been absorbed into the belly of a larger beast. Hopefully it will find safe haven with CNET. I love you Metacritic… “After relying on a small group of volunteers as well as our own hard (and unpaid) labor over the past six years, we are extremely happy to announce that Metacritic.com will now be part of CNET’s Games & Entertainment family of websites”
- Whatever happened to Jaye Davidson – Oscar nominated star of The Crying Game and Stargate Basically nothing – he just withdrew completely from the industry after two films and returned to working in fashion. Just didn’t like it, I guess…
- Apple stocks are rising all over the place after rumours suggest that they may be about to annouce a deal connecting the iTunes music store with Google “The rumored deal would pair the nation’s leading online music store with its leading search engine”
- Art that celebrates our creation by the Giant Spaghetti Monster For more on this emerging new faith, I can recommend venganza.org
- A fascinating article from the Ecologist Online about the UK’s food culture and why it is the way it is… “No European country is as reliant on supermarkets for its food shopping as Britain. It is no coincidence that the UK also has the worst eating habits in Europe”
- Charlie Brooker’s dissection of this year’s Big Brother in the UK “Finally, the award for Unprecedented Dignitycide goes to Kinga, who … celebrated her second night in the house by masturbating with a wine bottle in the middle of the lawn”
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The Ecologist piece on food reminds me of the rant in the Observer Food Monthly this, er, month about Britain’s dysfunctional relationship to food.
Joanna Blythman who wrote the Ecologist piece is the author of ‘Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets’. It’s a very good read, very revealing about Supermarket practices (you’ll loath all supermarkets after you read it!).
However, one subject Blythman doesn’t tackle in the book is how we, the British public, are just as culpable in allowing supermarkets to gain hegemony in the UK. Our appetite for processed food (and the supermarket’s eagerness to sell this high-margin product) only adds to our image as a nation with pooor culinary taste!