[sudoroom] theportofoakland.com or port-of-oakland.com?

[Marc Juul]

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From: Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk>
Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [sudoroom] theportofoakland.com or port-of-oakland.com?
To: Eddan Katz <eddan at oaklandlocal.com>


On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at oaklandlocal.com> wrote:
>
> i am planning on buying one of these two domain names for a critical parody
> website of portofoakland.com.
> theportofoakland.com or port-of-oakland.com?

portofoakland.com gets my vote! (though what about .org or .net ?)

> along the lines of the yes men's hacktivist campaigns against the WTO
> (http://www.gatt.org/) & the US Chamber of Commerce
> (http://yeslab.org/article/will-real-chamber-commerce-please-stand), this
> type of online intervention relies on the fair use doctrine that is a
> defense to trademark infringement as an alternative to Anonymous DDoS
> attacks. given the mainstream media reporting on previous strikes in
> oakland, this site could also be a resource for journalists willing to go
> beyond copying the port of oakland press release.

Awesome! I'm in.

> would anyone be interested in working on a project putting up a website that
> looks similar to, but clearly different than portofoakland.com and
> writing/soliciting articles from occupy/labor-related groups & initiatives?

Yes, I will assist. I can do the tech things related to this, but my
design-foo is not that great and my knowledge of goings-on related
to the port of Oakland are lacking.

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Marc Juul