marco:
(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.
I’m interested in whether or not people are willing to pull out their credit cards and go through a full-fledged transaction for 99¢; this, in my opinion, is going to be the biggest issue to overcome with this approach. Besides the task of making a payment, I really like this idea.
July 14, 2010
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If Microsoft really only sold 503 Kins, that’s very sad… They even had commercials! But, it’s also super funny since, you know, 503 is a HTTP status code that means your server is failing. :-)
July 7, 2010
No Folders in my first 20.
June 27, 2010
I really like the iOS4 update in MobileSafari where the URL autocompletion from history shows both the page’s title (large) and URL (small)
June 21, 2010
Skype demoed their multi-tasking iOS4 app at the announcement of the latest iPhone OS (iOS4). The day comes that iOS4 is released and guess who’s not ready— Skype! What a fail…
“Skype for iPhone: Update for iOS 4 coming soon”
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Employing tricks like needless pagination, auto-refreshing (see Salon.com), misleading headlines, and the like is cheating. You didn’t earn those pageviews, you tricked people into giving them to you. And then you look at shit like popups, popunders, double underlined links, Snap previews, Tynt scripts, and so on, and it’s pretty clear how hostile it all is. It’s nothing but money-grabbing. If you’ve got it set up so bad that your readers are employing things like ad blockers and Safari’s Reader, you fucked up. You did something wrong. You overestimated how much your readers are willing to tolerate.
John Gruber commented on Engadget’s Preview of the Motorola Droid X:
“An interesting divergence: the iPhone 4 has gotten noticeably smaller (both thinner and narrower); the latest batch of top-tier Android phones are getting noticeably larger.”
Interesting? Well, I find this scary! The Droids are growing ever larger with every generation; one can only predict they’ll someday use us humans as their battery power…
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I make web stuff.
