"The lesson I learned from this is that it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time."
How Will You Measure Your Life? - Clayton M. Christensen
"In America, there is New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, everywhere else is Cleveland."
Mark Twain (or maybe Tennessee Williams)
(via nostrich, sasquatchmedia)
From tomorrow, the Sun Chronicle, a Massachusetts paper, will charge would-be commenters a nominal one-off fee of 99 cents. But it has to be paid by credit card, which means providing a real name and address.
And the name on the credit card will be the name that will appear on comments. So it’s goodbye to anonymity.
This is an excellent idea, and I bet it will work: there will still be plenty of comments (not as many, but enough), and they’ll be more civil, more intelligent, and better written.
This reminds me of when Bill Gates suggested we charge a nominal fee (a small fraction of a cent) for every email. It wouldn’t materially affect the average user but would kill the economics of spammers.
We all know how far that went.
I’d prefer intelligent comment systems that, via algorithms or voting, push the best stuff to the top.
That being said… the more revenue for newspapers (especially digital), the better.
"Facebook is literally filled with master baiters"
Perhaps my favorite double-entendre. Ever.
Also… that’s what she said.
Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications…
(via …ifindkarma…)
Mission accomplished.
"Several months ago, when we were all sitting on Jeff Bezos’s bumper drinking orange Mad Dog and trying not to be noticed, we heard a voice in the distance yelling “You kids better not scratch my Mercedes or I’m calling the cops!” We ran."
Dim Sum!:
Jennifer received a proper introduction to dim sum today.
Peacefool:
Art adorning a gallery in Melaka, Malaysia.
Orangutan House:
Studio and gallery of Charles Cham in Melaka, Malaysia.
Cheng Hoon Teng Temple
Grafitti in Kuala Lumpur
Petronas Towers
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