Anna's Place - Journal

Journal

Tears and Laughter

A life beyond transition

Welcome to my online journal, which I started in December 2002 after several very persuasive hints from friends. Although I obviously don't write about everything that happens in my life here, I hope it'll provide an insight into who I am and what's happening in my life - whether good, bad, happy or sad.

If you want to post a comment about anything I've written, please feel free to do so. The only posts I'll delete are malicious or offensive ones.

Update (18.4.2008): I've suspended comments on this journal as a direct result of abuse by spambots. Once I've found a way to stop the spambots causing disruption, I'll consider turning comments back on.

Current Entries | Archives |

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Change we (are not allowed to) see

This is just classic. Some bright spark at Labour HQ thought it would be a good idea to start a Flickr group for photos recording Labour's achievements since 1997. Unfortunately they didn't anticipate that photographers would instead post scans of the "Stop and Search" cards they'd been given by the police when stopped for (you guessed it) taking photographs.

Oops. They've now thrown their toys out of the pram, locked discussions on the group and are busy deleting images which don't suit their message:

Of course, the response of the photographers has been to start their own group, entitled Change we are not allowed to see and upload the banned images there instead. If it goes viral (as these things often do) that's one big backfire by the politicos.

Epic fail, guys. Really. I mean, WTF were you thinking? (and just as few days after the photographers protest in Trafalgar Square over misuse of stop and search powers, which just beggars belief)

Of course, this could easily be just about any political party rather than just Labour. I doubt many politicos fully appreciate what social media have really done for mass communications, after all.

Labour: Change we see but you can't photograph (Telegraph article)
Change we see (the Labour one)
Change we are not allowed to see (photograpers bite back)

Fun, this technology stuff, isn't it?

Posted by Anna at 20:41 | Get Link

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Self Explanatory

Posted by Anna at 12:00 | Get Link

Contents of this page:

Change we (are not allowed to) see

Self Explanatory

Friends in Blogspace

Real Live Preacher
Calpernia Adams
AmyNews
Mikhalela's News Blog
Amber Space
Second Chance at Life
Life - Poetry in Motion
Veronica's Journal
Valerie's Blog

Go back to the top of the page