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21 October 2010

#294 Make yourself heard

Sometimes it's more likely that people read your blog than see what you’re doing.

Sometimes it's more likely that people read your blog than see what you’re doing.

Alexander Kandiloros lost the breath holding-contest in #293. Today he writes about the starting protests on the web. Do you see the connection?

The Internet is good for more than finding the cheapest deal for that camera, picking up good looking strangers and watching movies that haven’t been released in Sweden yet. It’s also a forum where everyone can be heard and are allowed to speak up when they encounter something that is not okay, regardless of where in the world they come from or where they are. If other people agree with that person, something cool happens. When people agree on a common enemy, anything can happen. Then you can demand change.

Comedian Aziz Ansari goes to see Star Trek and wants the impressive IMAX experience and pays five U.S. dollars extra to go to such a theater. Afterwards, he realizes that it was not at all that great and impressive. IMAX have mega screens and conventional screens and despite complaints that the theaters aren’t allowed to put up anything that differentiates the mega screens from not the regular screens.

Aziz spread it on his blog, the world gets angry, then another guy starts a blog to mark out all normal-sized screens (called LIEMAX!) on a map of the United States, and IMAX agrees to differentiate the variants.

http://azizisbored.tumblr.com/post/106587114/reblog-the-fuck-out-of-this-warning-amc-theaters-are
http://destroyfakeimax.blogspot.com/

Text: Alexander Kandiloros

Required time: 
1 hour or less
Cost: 
Free.
Cons: 
It can be time consuming, and change isn’t guaranteed.
Pros: 
You take a stand and try to correct an injustice. Is there a more noble goal?

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