I am thrilled to be included on the bill of Interesting South – a Conference of Interestingness. I’ll be talking about taking it to the streets… looking at culture jamming, where I’ll no doubt touch on the fun of the Zero Coke Movement. Here’s more on the conference, which is $25 a seat… Thursday evening, [...]

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No time to give a significant update (stay tuned, it’s coming in the next 24 hours…) but I’ll just say that playing Phil T. Rich at the APEC protests in Sydney yesterday was a lot of fun. Our demands for “Corporate Might, not Workers’ Rights”, “Privatizing Everything” and “Devastation, not Education” were messages that the [...]

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What would you describe as inappropriate? Cutting off a small pig’s tail, or running an advertisement to inform consumers about the treatment of factory-farmed pigs? Well if you’d say that torture is inappropriate and a confronting campaign educating consumers about that torture was appropriate, you’d be digusted to learn that some magazines refused to print [...]

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Those of us who are concerned about climate change find SUV’s a little difficult to take. The Chevy Tahoe, for example, gets about 15L per 100km (14-18 miles per gallon, for you should-be-metric Americans). That’s a lot of crap spewing into the air. So imagine the delight of creative environmentalists when Chevy decided to ‘promote’ [...]

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Finally, we can have some closure on the story of johnhowardpm.org… After tens of phone calls, many conversations, lots of notes on scrap paper, several stories in the media and plenty of google-searches, I can now report the following key facts relating to johnhowardpm.org: Richard Neville set up the spoof website, johnhowardpm.org, which contained a [...]

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