S92 goodies
This short video of the new kangaroo court that could happen under S92A is very well done, and features actual kangaroos!
This Dylan Horrocks cartoon sums things up wonderfully well.
While this Emmerson cartoon is equally good.
A few people have said they are not sure how to “black out” their website on Monday morning. There are numerous way you can take part.
- Set your site to redirect to the Creative Freedom Forum Blackout page for a few hours.
- Stick one of the large banners into a post, and leave that up as the last post for a few hours.
- Swap your wordpress theme to this black one by Thomas Covell.
- In wordpress goto “Settings” and then “Reading” and choose the front page to be a static page instead of your latest posts, and make that static page just a page about the Blackout with the banners.
Don’t worry too much if parts of your site are still accessible. The main thing is not to put any fresh content up (except S92A material) on Monday morning, so that anyone checking the blogs out on Monday morning will find nothing but black banners protesting S92A.
I’ll probably also turn off comments during the period of the blackout.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
The list of websites on: http://creativefreedom.org.nz/forum/topic.php?id=103&page=1 is now beginning to get large. I love it how TVNZ an SOE is involved.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:50 pm
careful DPF – you’ll be the first against the wall for stealing those cartoons
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Will it mean we won’t be able to save online pix to flickr and our social sites?
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Take a breath mate – it’s only one day.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I found the easiest way to ‘turn off’ comments on my wordpress blog was simply to put them all into moderation for the time being.
Thanks for the advice about making a static page, DPF.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Instructions for blogger (quick, reversible):
http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-customizing/browse_thread/thread/7c44c96be672f698/583ed00c15b3bb38#583ed00c15b3bb38
Just add the blackout banner in your template between the header and main body (between the divs, with no alt text) and you’ll be fine.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Re what is “killing” music; nothing has done that like the recording industry. I recommend the book “The Decline and Fall of Popular Music” by Donald Clark; on this subject.
He follows the story over several decades, of how serious music experts were supplanted in their “Artists and Repertoire” role in the recording industry, by tone deaf New York city lawyers and glitzy marketing experts.
He ends with some comment like, our only hope for a revival of the old days when good music was popular, and popular music was good, is for the whole recording industry to go smash. And he says that Sony signing up Britney Spears to a contract of $200 million is a definite sign of an industry about to do just that.