http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2005/08/04/coldplay-and-bluespamming/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 22 May 2012 09:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2005/08/04/coldplay-and-bluespamming/comment-page-1/#comment-812 Mike Butcher Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:43:31 +0000 http://p6.hostingprod.com/@mobhappy.com/blog1/?p=521#comment-812 Parlophone, and just about every other record label, are quite happy to condone "illegal activity" in the form of flypostering - so long as it's by third party agencies who can't be linked back to to the source. Bluecasting, I would hazard, is set to be the next form of "digital flyposting", especially now that authorities in London (for instance) have decided to crack down on the physical stuff. Knowing how flyposting tends to blight already run-down and poor areas, I should think the mild inconvenience of the odd "blucast" message is quite a bit preferable to having your environment trashed with old posters (which become litter). Expecially as you can simply change your phone's name, or just block the sender. But yes, it's still spamming, blah blah... Parlophone, and just about every other record label, are quite happy to condone “illegal activity” in the form of flypostering – so long as it’s by third party agencies who can’t be linked back to to the source. Bluecasting, I would hazard, is set to be the next form of “digital flyposting”, especially now that authorities in London (for instance) have decided to crack down on the physical stuff. Knowing how flyposting tends to blight already run-down and poor areas, I should think the mild inconvenience of the odd “blucast” message is quite a bit preferable to having your environment trashed with old posters (which become litter). Expecially as you can simply change your phone’s name, or just block the sender. But yes, it’s still spamming, blah blah…

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