Free schwag: a badge for your camera bag. In exchange, just take a picture of you wearing it, or of your bag or jacket, and post a link to your photo in the comments here. All you need to do is email me your address: I will send them anywhere in the world. My mail address is on the contacts/about page here.
Internet Censorship further reading and/or resources: Irrepressible, Privacy International, Net Freedom, Cyber Rights, Global Gal. Please post more suggestions in the comments box.
Update:
So far, badges have been mailed to Germany (lots), a few to the UK, Switzerland, Spain, Brazil, several to Australia, Canada, Philipines, Japan. These were made by Brilliant Badges in the UK, but please feel free to copy the artwork royalty-free, and make and distribute your own.
Update #2:
A series of mailed badge-wearers are sitting in my inbox awaiting linkeage here. Please don’t be shy, do post your own! Tia!
Update #3
More on order as of 2/09/07: will mail ‘em out early next week.
Popularity: 30% [?]
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:14 am
testing times…
July 24th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
It works, wow! :)
August 30th, 2007 at 1:38 am
[...] unrelated and rather elegant synchronicity, an email today from an American academic seeking schwag revealed a whole new world of discourse. His blog’s banner is this very photograph. Does a [...]
September 1st, 2007 at 11:17 am
[...] yet, she is encouraging viral distribution. As she says at her post about the badges: “These were made by Brilliant Badges in the UK, but please feel free to [...]
September 1st, 2007 at 12:25 pm
I like the idea,
Internet Censorship resource>> Online anti-censorship Network at http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/
September 1st, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Do feel free to replicate the meme, GVA. :)
September 2nd, 2007 at 9:45 am
Clever clever.
September 2nd, 2007 at 10:18 am
Only one has been sent to Sheffield. So far. ;)
September 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 am
Maybe we are cowardy cowardy custards!!
September 5th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Or something else altogether? Was talking to somebody yesterday about this extrordianry allegiance some folks seem to have with their Web2 site of choice. The kind of loyalty formerly attached to the likes of a cigarette brand. I think when people give up smoking they still knock around with their smoker mates, don’t they?
Not that I think that’s what’s going on here, of course. I simply do not know.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Now that really is an interesting observation that loyalty thing. I wonder if this is a symptom of first generation users? I certainly do feel that myself with regard to Flickr and I know others feel like this about their blogs .. mmm thanks for that I am going to think about that. There is something in there to do with identity…. we have these digital cubby holes where we store aspects and enactments of our identiuty and we like mooching around in them, seeing our lives reflected back in snippets. Hmm thanks for that Brenda you have got me on a new thought train here. THis is an idea I want to take on further …
September 6th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
There’s a thing - some people see their Web2 host as part of their persona? Yes, very interesting indeed.
I suppose I just think of it as a storage area really, like a wall. Clearing it off and replacing the pictures is good now and again. But so is trying a new wall in a different house.
Definitely something to mull over more. Do let me known what you come up with. It’s almost symposium material. :)
September 9th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
it is at least a paragraph in a chapter at amny rate!! Am doing a book about Web 2.0 next…
September 10th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Many thanks Brenda. Looking forward to putting the badge on my camera bag. Am I the 1st Irish recipient?
September 14th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Will mail the next batch out early in the week, Flash. Thanks! :)
September 14th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
This one made it all the way to Texas.
September 14th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Ooops: hit `submit’ by accident. Previous should have finished:
Great idea; Thanks Brenda!
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:31 pm
[...] me your address, and then post a link to a photo of you wearing it in the comments section here or here. I’ll be posting the occasional metameme mosaic when I get nine nice ones. Thank you all! [...]
October 1st, 2007 at 1:25 am
and the link :)
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 pm
[...] schwag/schwagging/censorship badge/censura/censur/freebie/meme…. [...]
October 24th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Hi Brenda, sorry it’s taken me so long but here’s the link to my photo of the “Censorship is…” badge, as promised. Thanks! Lucy
October 24th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Bum, forgot to paste in the link!
http://fluxpix.blogspot.com/2007/10/schwagging-payback.html
November 11th, 2007 at 8:07 am
[...] P adds a succinct suggestion from Stoke-on-Trent to the schwagging metameme. Thanks, Andy. I’ve a few more of these ready to upload as time allows. The badges [...]
November 19th, 2007 at 11:38 am
You know what? Flickr deleted my account. Fuck em. What a bunch of assholes.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
At least some photos seem to be online still:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/8132638_adf22455c7.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/groups/12509061@N00/pool/95589137@N00/
My account is in the neverlands…
November 19th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
I feel like I am fading away…
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/dna.php?username=95589137@N00
November 19th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
And, oh! “Your Flickr birthday is in 29 days!” Wow, I really look forward to it! From love to hate in less than three years, who would have thought that!
November 19th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Ha Tony, that link is very funny. I’m sure you’ve saved lots of screengrabs, right?
I don’t use Flickr, it’s just not very good, even as a plain old photohost.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:57 am
Would you believe it, they even deleted the comments I made. Down the memory hole with me…
November 20th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Yes, I do believe it. Did you see this? It’s all really not worth bothering about, Tony.
November 23rd, 2007 at 8:17 am
Interesting, what I was supposed to have done:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyschinkowski/2049225203/#comment72157603258180646
November 24th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Tony, do you really need a photohost, especially one whose management seems to have treated you so dismally? Seems the only way to protect oneself from loss of data these days is to host it yourself.
November 25th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I never want to go back to flickr, don’t get me wrong (Not even before they deleted my account). But I paid for their fucking service, it was my content and they blood well don’t delete it…
And going to another photo hoster to have the same fate looming in the dark? Yes, I need to host it myself. But I want to have some sort of access to some sort of community. And I have an idea to cut out this unneeded middle man (like flickr) and enable the people to get together and share content with another as they wish. Most of the technology is available already, I need to put it together in a sensible way. And of course there will be no lock-in, you would simply choose a webhoster (like for your blog), could easily back-up or move your content. I hope I put a big dent in flickrs business model. Alas, I won’t be able to start this project before next March and it will take some time - but anyway revenge is a dish best served cold.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Darn, I wanted to invent somehting like this:
http://noserub.com/quick-facts/
November 28th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Yes, do keep me posted on that Tony, it’s always great to have geeky friends who make useful stuff like that.