Posts by AndrewLong

  • Hard News: Friday Music: I like your old…,

    Dunedin, New Zealand • Since Oct 2011 • 4 posts Report Reply

  • Speaker: Torture in the neighbourhood -…,

    Good post John. It sets the context nicely for the video - which is abhorrent.

    Dunedin, New Zealand • Since Oct 2011 • 4 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Party on, dudes, in reply to Glen Wright,

    It is a good day for Mediaphiles.

    Of course! That phrase was my gateway into all this.

    Dunedin, New Zealand • Since Oct 2011 • 4 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: The price is that they get to…,

    Nancy Baym wrote an interesting piece recently on metaphors used to describe Facebook such as "nation", "homeland", etc. It was in response to the music sharing service Spotify (not available here yet) now requiring all users to have a Facebook account to use the service. To help their reasoning, they equated a mandatory Facebook signup as a"passport", not unlike the failed Microsoft approach all those years ago.

    Facebook as a cyber-state requiring its citizenship to frictionlessly share their daily lives?

    Dunedin, New Zealand • Since Oct 2011 • 4 posts Report Reply