
A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills — if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat — add your voice now!
Josh Constine has a few ideas for how to fix commenting on the Internet.
None are bad, but all have been tried to varying degrees before. They don’t seem to fix the underlying problem of some people just being sketchball idiots.
I actually think number 3 — dedicated comment pages for each post — is the most interesting. Some sites, like MacRumors, seem to use this to good effect. It turns your comment section into a forum.
I’m reminded of Coffee Talk. “Talk amongst yourselves.”
As you’ve probably heard by now, Heather Harde — my boss for the past three years or so — has quit AOL. There’s not much more to say beyond what Mike already has. This is just really sad — sad because it never should have gone down this way.
Heather was far and away the best boss I ever…
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Really, Posterous is becoming really tiring with it’s constant crashes and so on. I’m beginning to think in transfer all to Tumblr.
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