I’m angry that Kyle Sandilands, Jackie O and the producers of the 2Day FM breakfast show thought it was perfectly acceptable to hook a 14-year-old girl up to a lie detector test on live national radio and quiz her about her sex life. I’m fuming. I can’t believe they got away with it and I feel absolutely terribly sorry for the poor girl. (John Howard take note, I personally didn’t cause her any harm, but I’m still sorry for her, you can be sorry without admitting guilt). I’m shocked, appalled and last night I did something about it - I used my Twitter alter ego @mattgranfield to tweet #kylesandilandsisadoche. Thousands of others did the same. It helped make the trending topics.

Gee, didn’t we teach him a lesson. He must be shaking in his boots.

This morning I reflected on my actions and thought about the time I changed my Twitter avatar to green to support the Iranian elections, or something like that. I’m not exactly sure what I was supporting to be honest. I’m almost certain it was a good cause. I’m not exactly sure how it all ended up either. I think the dude with the beard is still the president.

Clearly, Twitter is a useful mass commnunication tool. It’s just a shame people like me aren’t very smart at using it to get to the right people.

Read this article over at mUmBRELLA if you will, it’s about how there is pressure growing on Optus to pull their sponsorship of the 2Day FM show. Apparently they aren’t getting the message. Apparently they don’t think people are angry enough about it. I happen to know that Optus is listening to Twitter and I happen to know the people doing the listening have a reasonable social conscience. If you’re angry about what happened on 2Day FM, don’t tweet #kylesandilandsisadoche, do something useful and let Optus know.

Tweet #optus #stopsponsoringaustereo

Show them you’re not happy.

Yesterday’s news that premier Anna Bligh looked outside the “Smart State” when developing her official election campaign raised my ire more than a little. According to MX, “the anna4qld site - which is emblazoned on every page with the slogan “Protecting Queensland Jobs” -  was developed by the Melbourne-based DTDigital and the Sydney-based Lawrence Creative Strategy.” I know DTDigitial do great work, but fucking hell Anna, it doesn’t send a very good message does it you turkey. Grrr.