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The Top 10 Facebook Campaigns
January 12, 2009Today, thanks to the internet, everyone has a voice. Social networking sites enable the mobilisation of popular opinion as never before. Here are 10 of the best campaigns currently doing the rounds on Facebook.
1. Jeremy Clarkson for PM.
Click here to find out why nearly 450,000 people want the Top Gear presenter and Sunday Times columnist to be Britain’s next Prime Minister. Are they right? Or, as Clarkson himself might say, did Hitler look good in the back of a convertible?
For more on the Clarkson campaign, see the Daily Mail.
2. Not Forwarding Spam Will Not Kill You.
Spam can be invigorating, particularly on those bluesy days when, if it weren’t for oodles of the stuff clogging up your inbox, you might conclude that no one likes you. But the Chain Message telling you either that you’re in for a run of terrible misfortune if you don’t send it on to 25 people, or, that if you do, you’re going to become a billionaire within days, is odious. The fact is that when you forward these things on, nothing happens. Click here to join over 800,000 people who agree.
3. Free Burma.
An ambitious one, this, but from humble beginnings… (Image courtesy of the Wooster Collective.)
4. Stop Global Warming.
Also ambitious, but supported by an impressive two and a half million members.
5. Don’t Let Newspapers Die.
Media pundits predict the demise of both regional and national titles in the US and Britain in 2009. If you want to add your voice to the clamour of those who wish to preserve newspapers as we know and love them, click here (and buy a newspaper).
6. Support Independent Music.
Who would argue with this campaign? No one, surely. And yet donations currently stand at a less than impressive zero.
7. Help Swedish Girls Go Topless.
This campaign seeks to liberate Swedish females so that they can jettison troublesome items such as bikinis or one-piece swimsuits when they’re at the swimming pool. Despite the absence of any monetary contributions, 18,218 people think it has merit. (There is also a campaign to protect Swedish underwear models – male, as well as female – from unfair competition, but we are not sure this is entirely serious.)
8. I Love Albania.
With a flag like that, what’s not to love?
9. Promote Tandem Surfing.
With just 51 signatories, this campaign seems to have been neglected. Click here to support it. (Photo: Dallas Kilponen.)
10. Stop Barack Obama.
This campaign claimed that:
- Barack Obama is a socialist.
- Barack Obama is inexperienced.
- Barack Obama has been endorsed by Hamas.
- Barack Obama wishes to negotiate with terrorist leaders, such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who pose grave threats to America.
- Barack Obama has proven to be bitter and racist time and again.
But it was not very successful.
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Hello,
Thanks to support the “Promote Tandem Surfing” page!
Aurely.
Memo to Freelance Writers: return that editor’s call quickly
September 3, 2010
Woe betide those who freelance and fail to return a call.
We say this upon hearing of a normally prolific freelance journalist who picked up a voicemail from an editor at one of the nationals on Tuesday afternoon. Please call us, was the message, and it could mean just one thing – a commission.
Our hero’s habitual practice is to return such calls as soon as is reasonably practicable, as m’learned friends might put it. In practice, that would habitually mean within a couple of hours. Most atypically, and for reasons we have yet to fathom, our man failed to call back for a full 24 hours.
By then, said editor had looked elsewhere. One of our man’s competitors had the gig, an interesting piece about cricket and the law, one which might just be in The Times today and which, we assume, asks whether the Pakistan cricket team have been caught out (in the legal sense, you understand).
We make no judgement on the no ball scandal, save to say that it is a scandal, but in another sense the moral is clear: in the fast-paced world of modern media, he who hesitates is lost.
Pictured courtesy of PrintedClothing.com: a fast-selling shirt.
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Seven of the Best Alternative Professionals
August 30, 2010Susan Casey’s new book, The Wave, is soon to be published. It brilliantly illumines the world of professional big wave surfing, at the same time as exploring the phenomenon of rogue waves (specifically, those which top 100ft).
Suitably inspired, we thought we’d take a look at a different kind of professionalism than is usually to be found on these pages. Those featured in our magnificent seven of alternative professionals may not wear suits for a living, still less spend their time in the boardroom, but they couldn’t do what they do if they weren’t every bit as dedicated, focused, driven and downright professional as those at the helm of a City law firm, finance house or PR company.
Hamilton is the star of The Wave, and no wonder. Based on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, the man is a force of nature, a 6″3′ powerhouse who makes big wave surfing look like a walk in the park. But it isn’t. The wave known as Teahupoo, surfed by Hamilton in Tim McKenna’s picture below, is a killer. Only years of focus, training and preparation make Hamilton able to ride this wave with such aplomb.
2. Danny Way
Warning: do not watch this footage if you are afraid of heights (and squeamish). American skateboarding star Danny Way has been rebuilt more times than the bionic man. He’s also made a small fortune from a sport so often wrongly derided as ‘for kids’. Definitely not one for a suit and tie, Way nevertheless deserves respect – as much as he would appear to need a permanent personal medical staff.
3. Shane McConkey
Professional skier Shane McConkey died in March 2009 while skiing in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy. His death robbed the world of extreme sports of an athlete known for combining BASE jumping with skiing, as seen in such feats as skiing into a BASE jump off the Eiger. RIP.
4. Shaun White
There are those who say that White, snowboarder extraordinaire, has the kind of hair that is inimical to success. We say, like Forbes magazine, that if White earned $9 million from his endorsements in 2008 alone, what’s he worth now? We also say: don’t try what White does at home. Or anywhere, really.
If BMX riding is jejune, does it matter? Not to Macaskill, a man who’s worth a lot of money thanks to his remarkable ability on a bike.
6. Lynn Hill
There are rock climbers, and there’s Detroit-born Lynn Hill, the woman who made the first free ascent of the infamous Nose Route on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. Currently sponsored by the Patagonia gear and clothing company, Hill has done it all, taking phenomenal risks in the pursuit of her calling. Take a look at the intensity of her gaze: this woman would have been a genius at whatever she’d chosen to do.
She has the best name of any sportsperson, ever. She also looks pretty good, too, and is even better at her chosen discipline, wakeboarding. And discipline is the name of the game: as with everyone here, however outre their worlds, however extreme their sports, if they weren’t disciplined they’d not only be impoverished but also, quite possibly, dead. Respect.
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Hats off to the News of the World
August 30, 2010
Fantastic sting by the News of the World, whose legendary undercover reporter, Mazher Mahmood, has pierced the heart of some disgraceful match-fixing in professional cricket. Hats off, yet again, to Mahmood, but, strangely, we feel slightly sorry for him. Will he ever be able to retire into the sun and live a normal life? Somehow we rather doubt it.
Pictured: something which is decidedly not cricket.
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