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February 20, 2012 Martha Burtis 14 Comments

I don’t know about the accusation that DS106 is ‘over-branded.’ I think it’s far more accurate to acknowledge that it is a definitely a cult.

To that end, I reworked this TIME magazine cover. (Next up: I want to figure out how to animate those tentacles.)

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  1. Alan Levine (@cogdog)
    View February 20, 2012

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  2. Michael Branson Smith
    View February 20, 2012

    DS106 answers yes all 100 questions listed in this cult questionnaire. What do we do now? Therapy?

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    • Lou McGillreplied:
      View February 21, 2012

      not number 100 I hope

      though it could be done very creatively; )

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      • Michael Branson Smithreplied:
        View February 21, 2012

        Don’t you remember the Summer of Oblivion? I was killed by Martha!

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  3. John
    View February 21, 2012

    Brilliant cover, looking froward to seeing the tentacles wriggle. I actually think the branding/cult discussion is really interesting. In terms of what makes a good course, keeping disparate folk involved etc. There will always be some tension between things that make a group cohere and make it exclusive. Of course DS106 is not exclusive in fact it cult-like welcomes folk in. It is, imo, important to think about this perhaps by making rather wonderful magazine covers.

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  4. Ben
    View February 21, 2012

    ds106 is like L. Ron Hubbard’s love child with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! I want to stop, but I can’t stop feeding the beast!

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  5. rmcguirk
    View February 21, 2012

    YEESSS! I am totally drinking that cool-aid.

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  6. I’m Still Chewing on that Over-Branding of DS106 Comment | mbransons
    View February 21, 2012

    […] as a number of people went on to post new work about it. Giulia Forsythe’s Join the Brand, Martha Burtis’s The Cult of 4LIFE, Alan’s Got Infected, and I couldn’t help myself and made A purely unapologetic piece […]

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  7. Brian Short
    View February 22, 2012

    This TOTALLY explains all the love bombing.

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  8. cali4beach
    View March 15, 2012

    i love this! hahaha šŸ™‚

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  9. ds106 featured of British Tabloid | bavatuesdays
    View April 13, 2012

    […] I guess next it’s Time magazine: […]

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  10. flickrSounds for #ds106 | 106 drop in
    View May 20, 2012

    […] didn’t go down too well, but has inspired a lot of interesting stuff:, Martha Burtis’ The Cult of 4LIFE a graphic jokey one and I’m Still Chewing on that Over-Branding of DS106 Comment | mbransons and […]

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  11. 106 drop in » Blog Archive » flickrSounds for #ds106
    View June 17, 2013

    […] didn’t go down too well, but has inspired a lot of interesting stuff:, Martha Burtis’ The Cult of 4LIFE a graphic jokey one and I’m Still Chewing on that Over-Branding of DS106 Comment | mbransons and […]

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  12. No! You should not do DS106 | doublemirror
    View August 9, 2013

    […] give a balanced overview of its nature and limitations. I will also address the claim that it isĀ a cultĀ and how I came to become theĀ DS106 Headless […]

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