Comments on: What has the BNP ever done for us?

By: Social Media 2009: That Was The Year That Was : Dan Wilson : eBay expert, social networking, online community, ecommerce, stuff

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:24:53 +0000

[...] and geeks had shared it and started mashing it up. Some of the BNP maps were better than others. This episode highlighted two things. In the popular media, the net is seen as the wild west where civil concerns for privacy and [...]

By: Will - ArenaFlowers.com

Will - ArenaFlowers.com — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:12:24 +0000

Good ding dong stuff, fellas!
I enjoyed that.

Now let’s all have a nice cup of tea and a chuckle at yet another amusing overdub of Fatherland, this time with a BNP spin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUNUuqlG1a0

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:20:36 +0000

My apologies. Sense of humour failure after a hectic day. Keep on truckin’ kids.

By: I love the smell of irony in the morning

I love the smell of irony in the morning — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:25:12 +0000

I admit I haven’t been following this story but I am very amused by the ironic way that Mike Butcher, having called Dan Wilson an idiot for suggesting that he had been ‘unusually self-important’, could then write such an extraordinarily self-important comment here.

Mike says he spoke to ‘at least two’ (so that’s three then) map makers, thus personally saving us all from, as he said in his blog, ‘evil shit’. Has he suffered a self-awareness failure or did he just get out of bed the wrong side this morning?

By: Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:50:53 +0000

Well, Mike: thank goodness this wayward flock has the beneficent guidance and wise counsel of a thoughtful shepherd such as yourself. I am duly humbled.

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:10:20 +0000

“Unusually and increasingly self-important” was I? Not as self-important as a blogger who doesn’t check their facts before they post. But that’s the beauty of UGC huh? Any old idiot can create content.

The simple fact of the matter is that this mashup of the BNP list and Google Maps was going to be released whatever happened, and it deserved analysis, however distasteful the whole business is. For your information, if I hadn’t had one-to-one conversations with at least two of these map-makers about anonymising the data as much as possible, we would today be staring at maps made with no thought as to the consequences for those sitting under a default Google drop pin.

Maybe stick to blogging about eBay.