information-revolution.org

[vodex]

Thought I'd quickly write about http://www.information-revolution.org/, the viral-marketed site seen on the tube, trains, and now the Houses of Parliament.

It's branded as if it's some kind of grassroots techie/politics movement similar to Indymedia or  freeourdata, but after a

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[casparian]

You sent me an email about it and i looked but couldn't actually figure out who or what it was all about. I've seen the adverts, both on the DLR and the main line trains this morning, which basically say stuff like "Would you trust one company to store all your data?" so I guessed it was anti-google but... I'm confused about the point of it all!

[matgb]

The point seems to be that Yaho! and Ask can't win the search war by providing a better search engine, so they're trying a different method.

If anything, I'm now more likely to use Google, I hates me them astroturfing marketers I does.

[vodex]

Argh, I did, from when I thought it was genuine. It asked for both your email, and mine, which is unusual for 'tell someone' forms. I hope I haven't got us into spam.