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		<title>Mainstream News vs The Blogosphere</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/01/06/mainstream-news-vs-the-blogosphere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some bloggers gain credibility, some journalists will themselves paid peanuts to write 500 words on cup cakes. Sean Parker, founder of Napster and Facebook's founding president has said “What we don’t have are good organising tools so that institutions, which have hierarchy which have management, can actually leverage the power of social media to get things done in a consistent and sustainable way”. Presumably Mr. Parker is now developing tools to enable power to be leveraged by consistent and hierarchical management.

We may be living through an interregnum. The Internet is a disruptive technology but its long term effect on public discourse may be to just shake out the chaff. If the mainstream media want to remain relevant they need to focus on nurturing thoughtful journalists who produce pungent and insightful articles. In this respect the blogosphere may be a much needed kick up the arse.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4710&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Mirror</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/12/15/black-mirror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[However, I was impressed with Black Mirror, not so much for it's originality, but because it restated the ideas in stark and contemporary terms. It's storyline was tight and without needless decoration. It is all too easy in consumerist society to be drawn in by the hype. We consider we are being ironic but slowly slowly we start to believe the hype. Slowly we think we really NEED a 4 by 4. Slowly we start to doubt our ideals. Perhaps we're just out of touch. Perhaps the winners of X-Factor are real artists? Perhaps Deal or No Deal is an engaging game show.

The prediction of Science Fiction are never true but what good Science Fiction does is to hold up a mirror to our way of living and show us the absurdity and insidious nature of how we behave. The world of Black Mirror is not in our immediate future yet it is close enough in many respects to remind us that we are all being duped. Mr. Brooker has produced a fantastic piece of television, in this episode at least, and I look froward to next Sunday's program.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4630&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contrived argument over kissing and jumpers</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/11/17/contrived-argument-over-kissing-and-jumpers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC Radio 4 has a series of programs recently in what it terms its Brain Season. One example of psychological research is something known as anchoring. The idea is that you show a couple of numbers to experimental subjects and then ask them a question such as “what percentage of countries in the UN come from Africa?”. It terms out that their answers will be significantly weighed toward the numbers shown.

Interesting stuff. But who do you think is using this? Are you using it in your every day life? Are your mates at the gym or down the pub using it? No, the people who use this stuff are marketeers working for large multinationals who are trying to lure you into buying more and more useless stuff.  They have even developed an Orwellian term for it: Behavioural Economics. This is what's behind BP changing it's corporate colours to green or Shell changing the name of their petrol to "FuelSave Regular Unleaded". While they talk green they act mean.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4442&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London Bridge Station</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/10/16/london-bridge-station/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When they revamped London Bridge station some years back they took down the excellent big board full of departure information and replaced it with giant advertsiing displays. The departure informaiton was then displayed on little screens at awkward angles. The effect was absolutely appauling. I was a commuter at the time and one had to scurry into the station and then weave one's way through the seething mob to see one of these screens.

I was up there on Saturday night and they have renovated yet again. It seems that this time practicality has trumped advertsiing. They have cleared the whole area in front of the trains from platform 8 up and installed a massive bank of turnstyles. They have also installed the monitors displaying departure information back above the turnstyles.

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		<title>flying fish and the inefficiency of Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/27/flying-fish-and-the-inefficiency-of-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work with a guy from Pakistan. He observes the way we in England spend enormous amounts of time weighing up the pros and cons of every purchase. (Should I buy the Prius because it's green or the Avensis because it's got a big boot?) He is amused at this for, as he says, these things are not important. And of course he's right. A car is a car. Despite what the guy from the finance company says and despite what the advertising industry would have us believe differing models of cars will really not make a difference to our lives.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=3563&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s on the back of a 10p piece?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/02/01/whats-on-the-back-of-a-10p-piece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'd like to know how we're supposed to differentiate real coins from forgeries when we can;t remember what is supposed to be on the bloody things.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=2096&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap alcohol and de facto social engineering</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/01/03/cheap-alcohol-and-de-facto-social-engineering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Britain and America we, rightly, tend to look very much askance at any type of social engineering and this includes government advertising exhorting us to some worthy goal. But this is odd as we do not even notice when large corporations attempt social engineering and this is exactly what is achieved by large marketing campaigns.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=1964&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tax and spin &#8211; The New Labour doctrine</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2009/11/10/tax-and-spin-the-new-labour-doctrine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening on the TV I saw an advert exhorting me to reduce my driving by 5 miles a day to cut carbon emissions. On the face of it this sounds like a good idea but they are, in fact, talking bollocks. What shall I do? Drive to within 5 miles of work, park on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=1469&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Microsoft Racist?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2009/09/16/is-microsoft-racist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real question is this: Is it racist for a company to adjust the ethnic mix of characters in advertising to suit the target country? In my view it is not, it happens all the time. Advertisers design images so that the target audience will empathise with the people in the commercials and for this they try to reflect the ethnic make up of each country.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=1172&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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