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February 3, 2012 07:39 am GMT

The Revolution May Or May Not Be Branded

brandThe Occupy movement, or rallying cry, or whatever you want to call it, is by its nature decentralized. By refusing to come together under one banner other than the word "Occupy," they've both diluted their message and allowed it to spread more quickly. You don't need an Occupy license to occupy a bank's lobby in Kansas City, but at the same time there's a natural question of whether one occupation is related to another.Political considerations aside, the point is that Occupy might benefit from a recognizable face. On this front, some faction of the movement has decided to do a little branding, but in keeping with the democratic, bottom-up nature of the organization (or rather disorganization), they've opted to run a contest and let the "official" logo be selected by popular vote. It's a great application of web technology to an interesting problem, and will probably prove to be a memorable case study in an increasingly common phenomenon: the necessity of branding an emergent movement or pattern on the internet.

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