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Googlers and bloggers do not have an original thought between them. Their ruminations on tax reform, Europe, immigration, Iraq, security, education and the rest have already been googled ten times over by fellow bloggers copying their source material from some other blogger’s googling diatribe to the local newspaper.
By the splendidly ignorant Daily Mail columnist Keith Waterhouse, found via Shiny Media (may contain strong language).
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Well, if we’ve managed to do our bit to cheese off the Daily Mail then we can’t be that bad.
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the link (I hope we didn’t use too much strong language! Just blame Ashley!
I left him a comment (50p says the Daily Mail won’t publish it.)
I wrote, I love the Daily Mail. Soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent.” And just to confound him, I acknowledged the quotation.
That’ll teach him.
Are you trying to tell me that your cartoons aren’t original
Well I’m just encouraged to hear that there’s a Daily Mail article that doesn’t hold asylum seekers or young people to be the problem!
You did a wonderfully positive campaign for the SPCK.
How about some artwork for a wonderfully negative campaign against The Mail.
Dave Walker you must stop reading the Daily Mail. You assured us (when you posted the Nick Howard story) that you did not read it but now I am getting worried.
Tut tut Dave,
“They never acknowledge original authorship, believing as they do that googling has outmoded the law of copyright.”
you’re not supposed to tell us where you got your quote from!!
surely the dialy mail can’t insist their journalism is original diatribe? 
How insightful! But we’ve grown to expect such discernment from the Mail. I must blog about these wise words immediately.
Oh dear Gareth, they printed half your comment, which conveyed a rather different message from the one you intended and now you owe us all 25p.
“I love the Daily Mail.
- Gareth Child, York, UK ”
I think they may have a sense of humour somewhere.
UMO – 2nd International Cartoon contest’06
Announcement for the UMO – 2nd International Cartoon contest, here is the summary, the details follow…
* Open to everybody
* 3 entries per participant
* No entry fee
* Awards worth Rs 60,000/-
* Deadline: November 3rd, 2006
The UMO – International Cartoon Contest is held by UsabilityMatters.Org towards the World Usability Day. All the awarded and qualified cartoons will be exhibited on 14th November 2006 on the World Usability Day.
Participation is open to all cartoonists from every country in the world.
There is no Entry fee.
Please go through the rules and regulations – and in particular – the conditions applicable to the intellectual property rights.
Theme for the Competition
Mobile Mishaps – troublesome experiences with mobile phones
Brief: Previously, the objects we used in our day-to-day lives were easy to use and predictable in behavior. We used to wind our watches to set time, turn on a switch to light up a space, turn on a radio and set stations with a knob, attend to a call by just picking up the receiver of the phone, etc., But now with the introduction of computing; the objects we use come with many behaviors.
Mobile phones so far have had a much larger impact in our lives than anticipated. From being just a piece of communication tool, it has achieved a status of an object of desire, an object to possess. If some use it just for telecommunication, some have gone to the extent of making it their most personal gadget to rely in every need. They come in different shapes, sizes and some look even like being made for multi- purpose usage akin to cracking nuts. Some of them even confuse us, as they share amazingly similar looks with a television remote control. Most of them are pleasing to look at and offer great features but are rarely of any use. Most of us have had various kinds of experiences with this so-called most essential gadget. It alerts us, excites us, pleases us, surprises us, enthralls us, scares us and also troubles us.
The objective of this competition is to identify troublesome moments we experience while using mobile phones in a specific context or even out of context and depict it in the form of a hilarious cartoon.
Awards and Acknowledgements
A jury will select the top 6 winning entries, the cartoonists will be granted a cash prize award of
* First prize Rs.25,000/- (Rs. Twenty five thousand only)
* Two second prizes of Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. Ten thousand only) each and
* Three Third prizes Rs. 5,000/- (Rs. Five thousand only) each
* Five Special mention awards
An exhibition of the winning and short listed entries will be held and UMO will publish an exhaustive works report.
The jury and the judgment criteria
We are in process of putting a jury of well-known professionals and socially active personalities. The names will be announced in due course, depending on confirmation. For Judgment jury will use criteria such as creativity, humor, visual communication, presentation, persuasiveness, originality, cleverness, relevance of content and execution to identify the winner.
Deadline for Submission
Cartoons will be accepted through November 3rd, 2006
Rules and Regulations
Entries : up to 3 cartoons per person
Size (snail mail) : A4 (210 X 297 mm ) or A3 (297X410)
Size (digital) : 300dpi and in dimensions that are suitable for printing
Technique : free
Entries in hard-copy/paper will not be returned. Entries in digital format may need to be re-posted if the resolution is not found good for printing.
Exhibition and Prize distribution
On World Usability Day, November 14, 2006
Submitting your entries
Mail your cartoons keeping the competition name in subject line to usabilitymatters [at] gmail [dot] com.
If you are sending through the snail mail, use the following address:
UMO- 2nd International Cartoon Contest
usabilitymatters.org,
Plot no.12, Penthouse, ICRISAT colony,
Road no.11, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. India. 500 045
ph: +91-0-9849301500
Please mention a little background information about yourself that may help identify you with your work and the email id that will help us get back to you with any communication.
Intellectual property rights
UMO may, in its sole discretion to use the art-work (images, photograph, written content) for any purpose, change, alter, amend, add to, delete from and otherwise modify, including but not limited to, any and all cuts, edits, rearrangements and other alterations, additions and deletions.The responsibility for authenticity of all the submitted content, including the art-work and the personal information rests solely with the provider, and UMO will assume no role in case of litigations and copied works. The involved parties shall have to settle the matter themselves, within the conditions the original work was published/released.We respect your privacy and will not be giving out, or sharing your personal information with any third party, for commercial or non-commercial use.
