I know we are all hopeless Obots here who never criticize our cult leader, but someone is going to have to explain this strategery to me before the communal bath (we do have those, no?): The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico …
Archives for March 2010
Let love rule
It’s been a pretty crazy week here, with TapperGate, AccountabilityNowGate, LouisCKGate, and RadokGate. I should probably come clean and tell you that this is all part of a pageview-maximizing scheme John took from Politico and ordered me to implement. I’m not complaining though: Anne-Laurie awakes each day at 4 am to the sound of John …
Arrrrr
France has a new anti-piracy law (“Hadopi” — not to be confused with “Hutaree”) that disconnects pirates from the Internet after three strikes. A recent study showed that French Internet users are doing less of the kinds of piracy covered by the law (P2P file sharing) and instead are streaming and using download services like …
Lighten Up, Francis
Oh for christ sakes. One post asking if the tone has changed and dozens of you start kvetching about an overdose of introspection and bitching about holding hands singing kumbaya and group hugs. The other half of you launch personal attacks at my front pagers, all of whom I think do a great job and …
Coolest Census PSA Ever!
Geek love knows no boundaries of race, color, creed, or sexual orientation! ‘Course, if Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Batshite) and Ron Paul (R-Bugfvck) can agitate Texans into losing votes & funding for fear of OMG ZOG, that’s just the cherry on the sundae…
Something to Think About
Here’s an email I got: John – I’ve been reading your site for a couple of years, though posting only rarely. I love: Tunch, Lily, photo’s of the two of them, Rescue stories, Thursday night menus, your openness, your interests (though I can’t say I’m a Steelers fan), your distaste of certain kinds of internet …
Another Take on Pageviews
Following up on AK DougJ’s post about the noble search for readers at Politico, I thought John Gruber at Daring Fireball got it about right: […] Pageviews, as a metric used for directly billing advertisers, are a scam. Publishers game it with sensational link-bait articles and bullshit tricks like breaking articles into multiple “pages”. Advertisers …