Much like my previous post, this is to announce my recent appearance on a microblogging service. This one, however, isn’t the often failure-ridden twitter, but a new contender called identi.ca. The main differences: Jabber posting ACTUALLY WORKS, although SMS is not yet an option; more importantly, identi.ca is completely open-source; the source code of their backend software (called Laconica) is released under the terms of the GNU Affero Public License, version 3.0. For those that might not have understood that: that’s good.

Anyway: find me at identi.ca/ianmcorvidae, and I’d love if you’d join me! Send me a message there or here if you do!

Categories: Uncategorized, tech | Tags: FOSS, identica, tech, twitter by Ian McEwen
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Now available on twitter:

http://twitter.com/ianmcorvidae

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As the title may indicate, the article below is about an interesting new form of social commentary, or marketing, or annoyance, or all manner of other things. “Shopdropping” (also known as “Droplifting”) is the act of putting new stuff into a store (as opposed to shoplifting, which is taking things out). Documented uses include marketing one’s own product, social commentary, blunt illegality, and so forth (the article has lots of cool images and videos).

My own take on this would probably be technological; I’d very likely drop something like Ubuntu CDs in pretty packaging, for the sake of spreading usage of the OS; or even something like The Open CD (even though it’s no longer in active development), for incurable Windows users. In any case, enjoy (and include me on any good ideas… the Contact page is a great place for this)!

WebUrbanist » Shopdropping aka Droplifting: Beginner’s Guide to the Subversive Art of Reverse Shoplifting

Categories: irrelevant, pingback/trackback, tech | Tags: FOSS, pingback/trackback, tech, ubuntu by Ian McEwen
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