Hello internet friends!

Another monday, another week.

Chongqing City has set up China’s 1st "exclusive sidewalk for mobile phone users ” to avoid possible crashes.

This is a great idea. It’s also a very 2014 idea.

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What is a U2 and why is it on my phone??!

Related:

Apple ‘gifting’ each user with a U2 album downloaded into iTunes. At least one of my friends reported that he had wireless synching of his phone disabled; Apple overrode his express preferences in order to add the album to his music collection. The expected ‘surprise and delight’ was really more like ‘surprise and delete’. I suspect that the strong negative response (in some quarters, at least) had less to do with a dislike of U2 and everything to do with the album as a metonym for this widespread culture of nonconsensual behaviour in technology.

– Metafoundry 6: Accident Blackspot

And still related: The Fantasy and Abuse of the Manipulable User

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Erin Kissane on why Twitter is not as enjoyable as it used to be and what she does about it: Ditching Twitter

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Have a good start into the week, with or without the Twitter.