Goozled

This video has a made-for-educational-purposes feel that might spur you to daydreaming about that cute person with the shiny hair in seventh grade who sat behind your best friend and about the smell of wafting chalk-dust and the sound of patten-leather shoes clapping on a long tiled hallway approaching closer, closer, closer to where you were sitting doodling flowered purple robots wearing aprons and high heels… or, er, something like that. So if not for the worthy topic—digital-era freedom of expression and net neutrality—watch this video as a sort of morning nostalgia drug and plunge into a reverie, as I did, of long lost unrequited catholic school love!

The community site behind the video is also worth a look. It will lead you to something sinister called the “Internet Advertising Bureau,” which held a conference in London last month that was filmed and posted online. The conference afternoon session features a telling presentation by faux-casual smarmy Facebook COO Owen Van Natta, who brags for his marketer audience about the company’s innovative approach to selling, selling, selling in the new-media era. Soundbite: “We’ve created the most sophisticated and accurate targeting system available on the Web today.” Takeaway: Owen is our “facebook friend” and he’s coming at us in our everyday online life all over the web to make us buy more crap. Yay.



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