Very, very astute comparison.

Way to see the greater parallel themes, and sew them together so succinctly. I'm not even going to try and think up a clever comment, or reference a MSM article whose title includes the phrases "Wall Street" and "Main Street".

Because, you know, it's so clever -- they both include the word "street".

Cool science project, funny parodies too.

By my understanding, you can't "no derivative" your works out of being parodied.

Seems like BB's removal of the images, like the blurring of the faces, was not done because of any precise legal obligation to CC rights, but simply in the interest of basic decency.

Perfect for perl, and O'Reilly has a nice short PDF on building tag clouds.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527945/index.html

This isn't about liquor or big macs. A business is a business -- its role is to make money and obey the law, not to be ethical. Even Honest Jim's Wind-Powered Soy Frisbees and Hempen Footwear is still governed more by economics than by social responsibility. The fact that a business that some will perceive as "evil" is being economically influenced to act socially responsible is part of the whole point.

Gas companies give to green causes because of the economic benefit of improved reputation. This project seeks to further leverage that reality.

The NYTimes reported that biofuels were also a net loss for the environment -- because carbon-cleaning rainforests were being cut down to plant biofuel crops. The economics outweighed the fallacy of the "green" patina.

It's so refreshing to see someone refusing to label companies as "good", "bad", or "green".

The power of the group can be leveraged to design and build a perfectly functioning crazy train, and then to drive it all the way to CrazyTown.

Very interesting way to aggregate a group's latent social energy to economically incentivize corporate social responsibility. Any plan that aims to "end the tradition of hostility between activists and business" is worth supporting.

If the implementation is half as good as the writing on the website, it should easily succeed.

The Executive Summary says that revenue for the organization will come from socially and environmentally screened advertising. As an example, it describes a potential non-evil Facebook Beacon-like "Carrotmob application" for displaying user-generated ads. That could be delicate.

If this were happening anywhere near me, I would definitely go.

While the message itself was gawky and fraught with dorkmanship, the TSA nevertheless deserves a modicum of props for the meta-message: their recognition of the "bloggers' sphere" of influence.

Ford "clarified" their position after they noticed that this had spread all over the tubes. When you're a small forum fighting a big corporation, legality is often secondary to publicity.

Nice job BoingBoing for shining the bright light on this.

I doubt I'm going to make it through the day without finding an excuse to utter: "That means he's cool".

Meme-worthiest episode ever.